William M. Hartnett

Did Twitter Really ‘Outshine’ the Mainstream Press? - ReadWriteWeb
“(Twitter) does breaking news, and it does that very well - in many cases these days better than the mainstream press.” Too bad so many in the traditionally depth-focused news media are now placing big bets on breaking news, where they’re most vulnerable.
(tags: twitter journalism)

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Neighborhood mapping help from abroad. Mapping thousands of neighborhoods is hard work. So hard, in fact, that we recently outsourced a very small portion of the workload to Backyard Post’s senior Argentina-based polo correspondent.

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Golden Gloves competitor, Philly native to test strength on American Gladiators - Philadelphia Daily News
Palm Beach Post co-worker Rochelle Gilken, all 4-feet, 11 inches and 110 pounds of her, will break you.
(tags: pbpost television colleagues american-gladiator boxing)

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Just in case you’re not friends with him on Facebook, or even if you are and missed his request, Ed Barber needs your current contact information so you can receive information about the Alligator Alumni Association. Send it to cebarber AT alligator DOT org.

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: We like big serifs and, no, we cannot, in fact, lie. Still coming soon over that way: The amazing true story of one programmer and his true and amazing search for the world’s most ergonomically perfect input devices. Amazing. And true. And still coming.

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How auctions set ad prices - Official Google Blog
Interesting and basic description of how Google’s ad auctions work.
(tags: google advertising)

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Backyard Post now WAY real estate-ier than before. Coming soon over that way: The amazing true story of one programmer and his true and amazing search for the world’s most ergonomically perfect input devices. Amazing. And true.

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Mike Pride’s essay in the current issue of CJR, which one apparently can’t get online, is an excellent read. After nearly 30 years as the Concord Monitor’s editor, Pride spent his final year before retirement as a reporter. Or, as he puts it, “my job became to provide content.” If only every editor would do [...]

This just about sums today up. Photo by Flickr user Martin Deutsch.

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Took the first half of the month off, didn’t do terribly much during the second half of the month, and the old world kept on spinning. Visits were up 275 percent from the same period last year, uniques up 469 percent and page views up 123 percent. The stats, then, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. [...]