October 2008
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Squared’s attention to Squared has appallingly declined since he left Mama Tribune six months ago, as those of you who visit or get fed have noticed. Curiously, the going premise after the …
September 2008
2 posts
Early UGC →
Free Range archives
Knock Knock →
Who’s there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you ever going to post to this freakin’ blog again, Squaredster?
August 2008
6 posts
Adrian Holovaty, Cover Boy →
Chicago Tribune Magazine on “Holovaty’s twin passions - reporting and problem-solving - the unexpected intersection of journalism and computer code.” Here.
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To Maggie →
Maggie Mills was an inspiration and the absolute embodiment of a hyperlocal journalist long, long before that became a throw-away label for very local online content.
Maggie masterfully practiced…
Passages, Part II →
+ RealCities, which until the Yahoo Corsortium was the largest and oldest online news site affiliate network (yeah, mostly McClatchy-nee-Knight-Ridder sites, but some outsiders as well), has been…
The Colonel, Social Animal →
Colonel Robert R. McCormick spends most of his time these days spinning like a nuclear rotisserie in his grave at Cantigny over what befell his once grand, powerful and well-respected …
Newspaper Consortium Picks First-Ever Leader →
An alliance of 30 newspaper companies affiliated with Yahoo has picked digital media pioneer and longtime Squared colleague (including, a couple times, boss) Michael Silver of Chicago as its first…
2008 Online Journalism Awards Finalists Announced →
CNN.com; HuffingtonPost.com; NYTimes.com; Politico.com and Reuters.com named as finalists for General Excellence, Large Sites. For medium: LasVegasSun.com; MinnesotaPublicRadio.com; Truthdig; and…
July 2008
10 posts
Ripped from the Reader | Links for Monday →
+ Google News has new filtering options at the “cluster” level, that let you see blogs or local stories. Here.
+ Another Google wannabee (started by former Googlers) with an even more ridiculous…
Facts, Speaking for Themselves →
Number of web pages in the first Google index in 1998: 26 million.
Number of web pages Google just surpassed: 1 trillion.
Source: Official Google Blog. (Note: The Google index isn’t 1 trillion…
Pix From ONA Networking in Chicago →
Small but fun and successful Online News Association meet-up last night at The Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago for Unity 2008 attendees. Squared was co-host and made a delightful pest of himself…
The Turnippy Knoll →
“NOTE: We sell steamcleaning equipment and don’t sell our domain!!”
That’s a note from the owners of Dutch manufacturer knoll.com on their site today, a day after Google launched its…
Ripped from the Reader | Quick Links for Tuesday... →
+ Transitioning back from a week out of town on vacation (a curious undertaking on several levels for someone who is for the first time ever officially unemployed).
+ Google News going to get Dugg?…
Get Out Of Digital Printing, Too? →
Provocative post from Jeff Jarvis on BuzzMachine today, suggesting that newspapers get the heck out of the digital publishing business. (Jeff has long advocated outsourcing print production,…
Some Wisdom From Being On The Dole →
Have taken stock the past few days about what I’ve learned in the 2-1/2 months since my job with Mama Tribune was eliminated and the Package Fairy dragged me to the curb. Maybe some of the…
News In A Wordle →
Inspired by a TellZell.com reference to a nifty word cloud application called Wordle, Squared tinkered a bit and punched up a comparison of what was hot at the moment on Yahoo News and…
Quote This →
“People need to stop looking at TBO.com as an add on to The Tampa Tribune. The truth is that The Tampa Tribune is an add on to TBO.”
– Tampa Tribune Editor Janet Weaver in a staff meeting to…
Ripped From The Reader — Links for 7/2 →
Adrian and crew add two new cities (Charlotte and Philly) to microlocal data emporium Everyblock.
One of the inaugural members of the Adrian Holovaty Cloning Lab at Northwestern ruminates…
June 2008
13 posts
List o’ Links for Wednesday 6/25 →
Nifty new Facebook application from the gang over at The TakeAway lets you buy and trade stock in potential VP candidates. Here.
Google Snooze? “[W]hile news organizations continue to worry…
Purr This →
So there you have it. A portrait of a First Amendment company run by smug frat boys who want to get rich, cash in and bolt to the nearest jack shack. They are contemptuous of their workers,…
Help For Journalists in Iowa →
A plea from the American Society of Newspaper Editors for a little help for our struggling friends in Iowa.
Dear ASNE colleague:
You have undoubtedly seen the devastation left by the raging…
Ripped From the Reader: List ‘o Links for June 16 →
More on the AP “fair use” kerfuffle, including some progress, here, here, here. And use some AP content on your blog for only $2.50 a word! Real live rate card, here is a real…
List ‘o Links For June 13 →
You say stealing, I say listening. Here.
You say “charted the most influential or amusing blogs about politics, gossip, Hollywood, media, and miscellany,” I say “tarted up.” Over here.
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Being Civilly Disobedient →
Our friend Jeff Jarvis flips the bird at the Associated Press and is urging civil disobedience against the wire service for its heavy handed tactics over using even small amounts of AP content…
headcandy →
Link love from Romenesko for today’s campy “Chicago Tribune Guide to Newspaper Reporting” clip will drive some buzz for the very new Chicago Tribune blog headcandy.
Some of the stuff on…
Test of Feed →
This is just a test to see if we’ve fixed the Feedburner problems we’ve been having. This is only a test.
UPDATE: OK, the feed problem seems to be fixed, thanks to un-futzing the futzing around…
Quote This →
“I want supplies. I really wish I had taken more stuff from the stock closet. I had no idea how expensive Post-its are.”
– Terry Shine, a former colleague of Squared’s from South Florida, in a…
Kibbles ‘n Bits | Links for Today →
Surely, the work of the devil. “Powerpoint is becoming an effective medium online. Amazing.”
Craig Newmark on newspapers (too much of a distraction to start one); local news on Craigslist (”At…
The Post’s ‘Hyperlocal Flop’ →
WSJ looks at Washington Post’s hyperlocal efforts in Loudon County and declares them a flop, in no small part because the ballyhooed team imported to run the effort, led by ants-in-his-pants…
Newsaper.com Grades →
Concluding that newspaper.coms “are certainly the key to future revenue growth and profits,” 24/7 Wall Street took the sites for Top 25 US newspapers on a spin and handed out A-F grades “based…
Kibbles ‘n Bits | Links for Today →
Big court victory for fantasy sports leagues and fans. And just in time for Google to get in the game?
Online News Association Executive Director Lori Schwab has stepped down, ONA President…
May 2008
15 posts
Online Journalism Awards Entry Deadline 5/31 →
Not much time left. Get your entries in. Details.
ONA is looking for screeners to help sort through the entries and is dangling a carrot of free ONA conference registration for the speediest…
Control Freaks Anonymous →
Interesting riff from Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch about how old media companies still can’t get the hang of needing to give up control in order to compete and thrive online. “Even in this day…
T. Herman Peels Back The Onion →
While traditional media companies are still having some issues letting go (see next post), the old fart publisher of The Onion seems to have the “Internette” and its social networking and ubiquitous…
Apologies →
Squared’s web service (Dreamhost) has been far from dreamy the past few days, with major server issues making it usually impossible to publish to or see the site. Hoping to be back to normal soon.
EPpy Award Winners →
NYTimes.com, LJWorld.com, Las Vegas Sun take top news slots. Full winners list here. Breathless E&P story, but with handy list of finalists, here.
J-Lab Funds Another 10 Local Initiatives →
Those picked from 300+ “New Voices” applicants will receive up to $17,000 in funding. New projects include those covering veterans, families of prisoners, immigration and first-person audio diaries…
Nobody Ever Said Life Was Fair →
To my traditional media colleagues who have been “displaced,” or who have colleagues who have been, during the recent Great Upheavals or who sit in a newsroom surrounded by abandoned desks and…
Facts, Speaking For Themselves →
Google’s unique U.S. audience in April: 141.1 million
Yahoo’s unique audience in April: 140.6 million
Number of times Google has beaten Yahoo previously: 0
Leader in page views, however: Yahoo…
2008 Knight News Challenge Winners Announced →
Grants totaling $5.8 million were awarded to 16 projects in the second annual funding spree for “digital information innovations that transform community life.” Among the winners was Tim…
CNET Gobbled Up By CBS for $1.8 Billion →
WSJ: “CNET shareholders would get $11.50 a share, a 45% premium to Wednesday’s closing price and above any price at which the stock has traded in about two years. Shares of CNET soared 42% to…
Get A Move On →
Online News Squared is leaving the comfort of the Mama T hosting bosom and in the next day or so, will be moving over to a new server. So there may be hiccups with feeds and stuff as DNS gets…
Move Is Done →
Squared has been moved, apparently successfully. May take some time for the new DNS to propogate for some of you.
Kibbles ‘n Bits | Today’s Links →
A Breakdown of Facebook Applications (FlowingData)
Fun, gaming, sports dominate. (via Micropersuasion)
Tribune Sites Kick Off CombatWire.com Promotion (E&P)
“Tribune Web sites in…
Get A Move On →
Online News Squared is leaving the comfort of the Mama T hosting bosom and in the next day or so, will be moving over to a new server. So there may be hiccups with feeds and stuff as DNS gets…
Kibbles 'n Bits | Today's List 'o Links →
A 19th century lesson about the Internet and journalism (yelvington.com)Steve gets way too deep for Squared on a warm, sunny afternoon, but give his essay a whirl if you feel like a little…
April 2008
13 posts
Worth A Read in Wisconsin →
Great editorial by The Capital Times in Madison, Wisc., explaining its historic move over the weekend to publishing its daily offering entirely to the web after 90 years in print.
Today marks…
Quote This →
“And so, on this cool spring morning in April with full benefit of hindsight, I choose to be optimistic about the future of newspapers.”
— John Hasell, online editor of Star-Ledger.com and
Rainy Day At Work →
But at least the commute to the new office was a breeze ;-)