Archive for March 2007
Results In on the Congressional Website Project
Posted by: kegill on: 26 March 2007
The Sunlight Foundation recruited citizen journalists to evaluate Congressional websites on three criteria:
Access to basic information on what our elected officials do in Congress (the bills they sponsor, the committees they serve on)
information from or access to any of the legally-required disclosures they have to file (on personal finances or junkets they take)
Any additional information [...]
How To: Subscribing to an RSS Feed In Bloglines
Posted by: kegill2 on: 24 March 2007
This is a step-by-step to manually subscribe to an RSS feed using Bloglines.
This step-by-step assumes that you have already created an account at Bloglines and have logged in to the Bloglines homepage. The blog in the tutorial is The Social Customer Manifesto.
“I Blog, Therefore I Am” — An Introduction to Blogging
Posted by: kegill on: 24 March 2007
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Part three in a workshop series sponsored by UW Department of Communications, the Seattle Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications and the UW Alumni Association. From the promo:
Blogging is one of the hottest buzzwords in communication today, whether we’re talking about journalism, public relations, politics or marketing. Learn what makes blogs different from [...]
How To: Seeding Newsvine
Posted by: kegill2 on: 17 March 2007
Newsvine co-founder Calvin Tang provides tips on writing an effective Newsvine seed (effective defined as moving up the Vine!).
For Fun!
Posted by: kegill on: 8 March 2007
WebWare calls Comeeko the “best Web 2.0 site in the history of the universe.” It allows you to tell a story, comic strip style, using your photos and imagination. Not sure about the claim, “as easy as toasting toat” [stet] … but it does seem pretty straightforward! And cute. :)
WiredPen Is Moving – RSS Alert
Posted by: kegill on: 3 March 2007
Now I understand why folks use third party sites like FeedBurner for RSS feeds … if they change platforms, they don’t have to change their RSS feed URL. I’m moving WiredPen to WordPress … so your RSS feed will break in a day or two. :-/
Advance Apologies!
BBC Teams With YouTube
Posted by: kegill on: 2 March 2007
It’s a week of contrasts: BBC signs a deal with Google to distribute British TV to the world via the web. Contrast that with
ABC/Disney/Academy Awards, which demanded that Oscar clips be removed from YouTube … even though the Academy was not planning to re-use them (no DVD) nor was it showing them on its own [...]
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