Wednesday February 8, 2012
Hello.
A fairly short one today. I've been quite busy on some, you know, work.
"We're actually publishing, on average, roughly one-third fewer posts on Salon than we were a year ago ... 33 percent fewer posts; 40 percent greater traffic. ... We've gone back to our primary mission and have been focusing on originality. And it's working."
http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2012/02/03/hit_record [via @immerito]
LEGO Cuusoo
Kickstarter meets LEGO. Why did none of you tell me about this? Eh?
http://lego.cuusoo.com/ e.g. http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/4038
UK teenagers say they prefer social media to TV.
Really though, they like both at once.
"We're not saying this is the death of TV, but we envisage seeing more multimedia opportunities being developed in partnership with TV to encourage cyber conversation, especially when you consider that 40 percent of the younger audience are on social media at the same time as watching TV."
Also: 'cyber conversation'?!
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/other-media/social-media-outranks-television-as-uk%E2%80%99s-favourite-hobby-20120208100956489
Sublime Text, 'a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose'
Brutally clean. Nice and powerful. Will take some getting used to, but I like it already.
http://www.sublimetext.com/ [via @willhooke]
Literally Unbelievable, Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook.
I'm glad someone is collecting these.
http://literallyunbelievable.org/ (see also http://leasthelpful.com)
Sky News clamps down on Twitter use.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/07/sky-news-twitter-clampdown
"When things like this happen, it says volumes about who is in charge and how little they trust their own staff." - Kevin Anderson
http://charman-anderson.com/2012/02/08/sky-news-and-twitter-do-news-organisations-trust-their-journalists/
"The Sky newsdesk is, rightly, aiming to reassert control over the news flow." - Kate Bevan
http://geek.katebevan.com/why-skys-twitter-guidelines-are-right
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds
A fairly short one today. I've been quite busy on some, you know, work.
"We're actually publishing, on average, roughly one-third fewer posts on Salon than we were a year ago ... 33 percent fewer posts; 40 percent greater traffic. ... We've gone back to our primary mission and have been focusing on originality. And it's working."
http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2012/02/03/hit_record [via @immerito]
LEGO Cuusoo
Kickstarter meets LEGO. Why did none of you tell me about this? Eh?
http://lego.cuusoo.com/ e.g. http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/4038
UK teenagers say they prefer social media to TV.
Really though, they like both at once.
"We're not saying this is the death of TV, but we envisage seeing more multimedia opportunities being developed in partnership with TV to encourage cyber conversation, especially when you consider that 40 percent of the younger audience are on social media at the same time as watching TV."
Also: 'cyber conversation'?!
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/other-media/social-media-outranks-television-as-uk%E2%80%99s-favourite-hobby-20120208100956489
Sublime Text, 'a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose'
Brutally clean. Nice and powerful. Will take some getting used to, but I like it already.
http://www.sublimetext.com/ [via @willhooke]
Literally Unbelievable, Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook.
I'm glad someone is collecting these.
http://literallyunbelievable.org/ (see also http://leasthelpful.com)
Sky News clamps down on Twitter use.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/07/sky-news-twitter-clampdown
"When things like this happen, it says volumes about who is in charge and how little they trust their own staff." - Kevin Anderson
http://charman-anderson.com/2012/02/08/sky-news-and-twitter-do-news-organisations-trust-their-journalists/
"The Sky newsdesk is, rightly, aiming to reassert control over the news flow." - Kate Bevan
http://geek.katebevan.com/why-skys-twitter-guidelines-are-right
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds
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