Items that may grow up to be posts
In an effort to stay on top of the overflowing collection of links I have amassed through del.icio.us and my Google Reader shared items, I am going to start posting short items in batches. Let me know if this practice delights and/or annoys you and I will pretend to take that into consideration when it comes to continuing and/or stopping it.
- Vin Crosbie has a great essay over at Corante that is a response to BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine’s piece about newspapers entitled When Do You Stop The Presses? Vin’s point: it’s not just the package — it might just be the content too. (This one came from Paul Bradshaw’s online journalism blog).
- Ben Laurie makes an excellent point about traditional media and their Web stories, which frequently either don’t have links or don’t make them obvious — something that is even true of my employer, the Globe and Mail. (got this one from Adriana Lukas)
- Newser.com is a news aggregation site not unlike Daylife.com or Newsvine.com, and according to a post at PaidContent it is the brainchild of author Michael Wolff, former Hoover’s CEO Patrick Spain, and Caroline Miller — former editor-in-chief of New York magazine. It uses a combination of human editors and a ranking algorithm.
Got something you think I might be interested in? Feel free to email it to me, or share it with me through del.icio.us, where I am user “mathewi” — just tag the page as “share:mathewi.”
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