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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.

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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!).

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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. :)

Patent Office To Launch Wiki

Posted by: kegill on: 6 March 2007

The US Patent Office is launching a wiki to help review patent applications: they will not only post the applications, they will “use a rating system designed to push the most respected comments to the top,” a la Digg.com. It’s a pilot project — and companies will have to agree to have their application reviewed [...]

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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