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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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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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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In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare? - The New Yorker
“Ideas weren’t precious. They were everywhere, which suggested that maybe the extraordinary process that we thought was necessary for invention - genius, obsession, serendipity, epiphany - wasn’t necessary at all.”
(tags: innovation science gladwell ideas newyorker creativity technology)

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Changing culture from the top down -Teaching Online Journalism
“In newsrooms, the gang at the top often mouths words about the Web site … moving his or her lips along with the music. But not really doing anything about it. Not really making it happen. Not paving a road that will lead there.”
(tags: newspapers newsroom-culture management [...]

The ‘well hole looking up’ problem - Common Sense Journalism
“What if all the words written on on the journalism and new-media blogs about how the future is digital and everything needs to be “Web first” and we need to be totally rethinking the way we write, report and present news - well, what if it [...]

Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
Very cool all-in-one solution, but so far only for Windows.
(tags: chat email im aggregator application)

As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars - New York Times
“About one in five vehicles sold in the U.S. in April was a compact or subcompact car, while sales of pickups and [...]

Virtual Earth Imagery Release April, 2008 - Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
A paltry 22 TB of new imagery last month, including oblique coverage of Pasco and Charlotte counties in Florida. Other notable additions to the bird’s eye view family include Sydney and a few other spots in Australia and some big Canadian cities.
(tags: mapping virtual-earth [...]

Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers - mi.jobs | Google Groups
Has everyone already seen this before me? That would be typical. A bit of Internet history just in case, like me, you had not run across this nearly 14-year-old job listing before. Via The Wensingnator.
(tags: amazon history)

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How does USAT’s ‘Blue Chip’ program survive? - Gannett Blog
Jim Hopkins wonders how USA Today can continue counting its giveaways as the rest of the industry dumps worthless third-party sales from its circulation figures.
(tags: usat gannett circulation newspapers)

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