Steve Rubel over at Micro Persuasion has the news that ESPN.com is now allowing readers to comment on every single story posted on their website, including wire stories. Here is a controversial story about Tim Hardaway that has attracted over a 1,000 comments thusfar. ESPN also has added a nice feature where they list out the most commented on stories (see right)....
Continue ReadingWith the rising popularity of user-controlled news sites, everyday citizens are no longer dependent on mainstream media to decide what in the news is important. By now, everyone knows this, and most people understand the power of a site like Digg as a traffic generator for blogs and news sites and also as a means to a highly desirable end for anyone using the Internet…viral status....
Continue ReadingSince the launch of YouTube, Flash has become the dominate video format. The reasons are pretty simple:
(1) A higher percentage of people have Flash installed on their computers than competing formats like Windows Media Player or Real. As of December 2006, 94.2% of folks in the US had at least Flash 8 installed on their computers. ...
Continue ReadingAccording to Wikipedia, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a tool that “enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.” It enables companies and individuals to posts tasks and set an amount they are willing to pay for the tasks completion....
Continue ReadingWashington Post column on their most recent blog controversy and the differences in process between online and print content.
Good list of some cool themes for WordPress junkies. Some inspiration for blog designers as well.
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