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July 6th, 2009  Twitter: One Year In

Here’s some analysis of my first year of using Twitter.
- Been using since June 14, 2008, thru WhenDidYouJoinTwitter.com.
- 127 updates. I thought that number would be higher.
- 196 followers. I’m surprised it’s that many.
- We’ve had 392 visits to our magazine sites that originated from Twitter.
Just today I received a story lead through Twitter. I’ve [...]

Posted by tradepressed at 12:00 pm | Filed under: Web | No Comments published
 

July 4th, 2009  No more pay-for-post blogs?

Wow — this is a sign of a new day. From Poynter: FTC to Investigate Bloggers Receiving Pay for Posts.
I’ve always felt that it’s caveat emptor with blogs, but I can see the point. I like a nice separation of church and state, although the Internet has bent if not broken a lot of those [...]

Posted by tradepressed at 12:13 pm | Filed under: Web, ethics | No Comments published
 

August 7th, 2008  What’s Twitter really for?

I’ve been to the conferences and I know what the (current) Web 2.0 tools are. The obvious ones. And I agree. We should be using these tools. But how? Standing up in front of a bunch of editors and saying “Twitter,” like it’s completely self-explanatory, is just going to leave them confused, especially if they’ve [...]

Posted by tradepressed at 09:17 pm | Filed under: Web, Writing | 2 Comments published
 

February 5th, 2008  Video on a magazine’s website

The push to Web 2.0 is on everywhere, and at our company, a lot of people are hot for Web video. Everyone wants to design pages to accommodate video, we have people hunting down video applications, but not many people are stopping to ask where all these videos are going to come from.
Personally, and I [...]

Posted by tradepressed at 08:49 pm | Filed under: Web | 4 Comments published
 

January 8th, 2008  Won’t learn the Web? You’re fired.

I received my copy of ASBPE’s Editor’s Notes newsletter (requires login) in the mail today. Jeremy Greenfield, editor of min’s b2b is hilarious:
“I personally don’t like working with people who get paid a lot and do very little,” he is quoted in the newsletter. “Promote your superstar editors and fire the rest.” Actually, I guess [...]

Posted by tradepressed at 09:35 pm | Filed under: Web | 1 Comment published