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Pinteresting your Instagram on Twitter: Enjoying the image-heavy era

Scanning Tweetdeck over coffee this morning, I saw the following tweet from local digiphile Grace Boyle. She’d know — Grace is a food blogger, too — and when you look at Cafe Aion‘s full feed of Instagram photos and what they send to Twitter, it’s hard to argue otherwise. It’s easier and easier for people to … Continue reading »

“No one has yet devised a proper method of shunting anger into a more productive project”

Part of an introduction to Gary Hart’s blog is a pretty great way to address online comments: “The blog world has become accustomed to the participation of those for whom anonymity provides courage, that is those who find the blog an instrument of vituperation, anger, and bitter ad hominem revenge on the world. No one … Continue reading »

Livetweeting a murder trial and decision on whether to admit online comments

The Camera‘s Erica Meltzer only started tweeting trial proceedings recently but is already one of my very favorite follows. Today, she’s livetweeting the murder trial of Kevin McGregor, and one of my favorite topics — online comments — came up. It’s great stuff, and the full feed is a wonderful example of courts coverage that … Continue reading »

Building a website (from the beginning)

So you’re a newly minted digital journalist. What does that mean, you’ve got a Twitter account? Nice work, champ, but you should probably get to know a few basics along the way — specifically, along the way to creating your own website or maintaining your organization’s site. Get your domain This is the step everybody … Continue reading »

Google+, Path, Pinterest and everything else: Speed-dating the social media tools of the day

I have a week “off” this week, which means I’m really trying not to pay attention to the office, save for producing a special section mostly from home. In the spare time, I’ve finally found time to experiment with a few of the more recently relevant social tools out there. I asked Facebook which tools … Continue reading »

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