Next-generation content management for newspapers (is in the making)

Steve Yelvington helps newspapers get the web. Newspapers have a hard time adapting the new ways of the web, what with all this user-generated content, changing consumer habits and dropping sales. It’s a huge cultural problem - traditional vs new vs social media - too. (And it’s not that newspapers, their editors or their management [...]

Protect your tweets - or don’t

Recently I proposed to add a little Twitter feature, namely an indicator for why you protect your Twitter feed. (Why is this important? To prevent social awkwardness.) Tapio picked up on this issue and asked (among others) me:
You folks out there must have come across that situation: a new follower request comes in, you don’t [...]

Twitter feature request: Protected updates options

One thing that’d be really useful for Twitter: If you could signal somehow why your Twitter updates are protected. Some folks do it because they prefer to communicate within their circle of friends. Others do it so they can monitor who subscribes to their tweets - which is the only way of making sure that [...]

Widgets Are Your Friend

Tony Hirst, author of this neat RSS manifesto and edupunk extraordinaire, produced this little gem of a pro-remix, pro-sharing, pro-widget rant:

[embed] changes everything
we don’t care
where it came from
if it’s good enough
for government business
salvation
but can you be RSS’d
let someone else make it PORTABLE
WIDGETS are your friend
(via Brian Lamb)

Subscribe-To-My-Twitterfriends’-Blog Day*

Julia Roy, social media consultant and Twitter fan extraordinaire, says:
Everyone rejoice! It’s the day we show our love for our Twitter friends and subscribe to their blogs. If you Twitter your blog URL to me, I will subscribe.
I have a folder in my NetNewsWire RSS reader labeled “Twitter,” I like to check once a [...]