23 Mar 2007
I know, enough with the 2.0 moniker, but it is fitting for the new face on the Wired.com website . . . open, trendy, clean and slapped with a "beta" label. It doesn't get more 2.0 than that. Now where are the widgets and social networking capabilities? Just teasing, I play in this space too. The "beta" appears to be in reference to some broken story links and individual article page layouts. With about 4 varieties in the mix my vote is to keep the style for this article and ditch the page jump to read the rest of an article. I'm not sure how long the new site has been up. It's been a long time since I last visited the site thanks to their Wired top story RSS feed. And since the feed is a partial content feed, a sentence or two teaser, I only occassionally follow the story link to the…
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23 Mar 2007
Crack research and a journalism degree can help you too when you need to write an article for your local paper: "Podcasting, which was developed by Apple in 1994, stands for iPod and broadcasting." This must have been the real first generation iPod the size of a backpack with swappable floppy's for memory and 10 second podcasts in aif format. I don't really mean to pick on Ms. Carey, well, maybe a little. I would also think that the Editor also deserves some razzing. What this article and eventual syndication to a sister Texas newspaper under the same ownership of Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.(CNHI) highlights is that your tiny corner of the world isn't so tiny anymore. Especially, when it is brought to my attention by a Google alert for subjects I am interested in, like podcasting. Yes, your intended audience may be local but that doesn't mean the 5000 people…
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20 Mar 2007
Listen to our Podcast: Show Notes: As the first Capture the Conversation (CTC) podcast, this show offers a nice snapshot of the personalities behind Room 214 – in addition to the kind of discussions that take place when it comes to Google search results, SEO, public relations, RSS and more. Opening – Kris introduces James Clark and Jason Cormier of Room 214, http://www.Room214.com, for the inaugural CTC Podcast and Kris’ claim that the Internet doesn’t lie and he can prove he had the first official podcast studio. 4:00 – SEO discussion about Matt Cutts post on Internal Search Results Pagesand how Google is responding to placing those pages high in SERPs. Kris talks about being #1 for Wii News on Google – an internal search page for Croncast. How long will it last? 5:30 – Comments on the recently released State of the News Media 2007 Report – everything is moving into niche…
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12 Mar 2007
Chas Bowie has posted a great interview with the accomplished Ira Glass of This American Life, currently the highest ranked podcast on iTunes. This isn't the typical interview as a biography, but more a sharing of what it takes to create compelling and meaningful works . . . concepts to build your own creative story telling with. Thanks go out to Erik for pointing me to these.
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