Note: This article originally appeared on the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. by Matthew L. Schafer On Wednesday, Len Downie, Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and former executive editor of the Washington Post, spoke about what he and others have called the “new news” of the 21st century. […]
Who’s Hiring – Top employers week of 7-12-10
Who’s Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 7/12/10. The business service, hospitality, telecommunications, health care and retail are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nation’s leading job boards. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, […]
Indian CIOs Need to Focus on IT operations, Set Aside Strategic Ambitions
According to research advisory group Garner, IT operations are what are going to win the game for any competitive firm. You can call it what you like – trimming costs or obtaining process efficiency – but with rapid fluctuations in the economy, IT operations will clinch the top spot. Vice-President and Research Director, Gartner, […]
10 Twitter Commandments: The Basics
Using Twitter to promote a startup or brand? Here are the basics. 1. Every tweet should have a link. (Instead of ‘We just published our 500th post!’ Try ‘We just published our 500th post! Check it out: http://bit.ly/a8Du7’) 2. Every link should be a shortened link (via http://bit.ly, http://tinyurl.com, etc). This is so that links […]
The World Reacts to the Release of the “Lockerbie bomber”
by Katharine Ganly Helena opens in this post on Israel Palestine Blogs Peace Blogs Aggregator: There is currently a huge amount of over-heated rhetoric on the airwaves and in the blogosphere, in reaction to the Scottish court’s decision to release convicted Libyan mass-bomber Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi before the end of his sentence, on compassionate/health grounds. Whether […]
Google Jumps Into Content Side of News
Google’s News section rolled out new features yesterday, including their ‘cluster pages,’ which display relevant articles, quotes and timelines for specific news topics. The goal is to provide a richer, deeper collage of the news coverage of a story. All of that is typical google: organizing the world’s information. Where they diverge from the norm […]