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Miscellaney

Posted by: kegill on: 27 September 2007

Fall term has started — I haven’t written about the MSFT/EU case — and there’s lots going on with media ownership (Jena 6 as springboard for minority ownership issues). But I’m not gonna write about any of that stuff that I should be writing about.
Instead, I’m launching a new category: cool and off-beat YouTube videos [...]

How To: Using Categories To Organize Content

Posted by: kegill2 on: 27 September 2007

When you create your first blog post in WordPress, there is one “category” option (over there on the top right of the administrative screen). We don’t ever want to use that default to categorize a post!
Categories are not to be confused with “tags” (a more modern, Web 2.0 concept). Think of categories as major subject [...]

Create Your Customized Democratic Candidate Mash-Up

Posted by: kegill on: 15 September 2007

The Democratic Party is truly experimenting with citizen media this election cycle. On Wednesday, they held an “online debate” that consisted of Charlie Rose, PBS, asking questions and recording answers. The questions, of course, came from online voters. Sponsors: The Huffington Post, Slate (owned by the Washington Post) and Yahoo! .
Interested voters can now [...]

Apple Wants To Rent Movies

Posted by: kegill on: 11 September 2007

The Financial Times reports that Apple is negotiating with Hollywood to rent movies online; the company current sells movies for purchase and download. This would put Apple in competition (of sorts) with Netflix, which provides instant viewing of movies if you own a PC; Amazon, which also provides instant viewing of movies with its [...]

Facebook Goal: 60 Million By December

Posted by: kegill on: 11 September 2007

The Guardian reports that Facebook has opened a London office and hopes to have 60,000 registered members by the end of the year. This would be “at least 3% growth each week and 200,000 new users every day.” Supposedly, the page views are 50 per visitor per day! I certainly don’t spend that much time [...]


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