The Pew Research Center released their top stories of 2008 report (pdf) and the big news in their report is not what the top stories are, but where people found them. In 2008 forty percent of the respondents to this national survey said they found their international and national news [...]

The PolySigh blog takes a look at what all reporters and editors know to be the hatchet they carry around in their back pocket– quoting their source verbatim and making them sound like an idiot. It’s common for reporters to clean up quotes by correcting grammar and removing verbal pauses [...]

So, we’re moved in and all of utilities are on and haven’t been cut-off so I guess that’s a good sign that turning my electricity and gas on via the provider’s website actually worked. Starting up my natural gas account online with our provider CenterPoint/Energy was much like turning our [...]

The end of the year brings on many predictions for next year. Placecast looks at digital advertising trends for 2009. Again my favorites of their predictions with some comments. View-through metrics gain traction –For at least five years I’ve said theres got to be more than just clickthrough to sale [...]

New York Center is paying doctors to convert to electronic health records and subsidizing the cost of implementation. President-elect Obama pledged during his campaign to spend $50 billion over five years on electronic health records. The New York Times gives a good overview with a couple of examples of the [...]

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is reporting that they are hearing predictions for content web site revenues to be down fifty to eighty percent in 2009 with “the median pessimism point around 50%.” The only thing that can be said is on the other side, those that survive will be stronger [...]

Here’s fourteen social media experts looking at what’s next in 2009. My favorites include “Intimacy touches emotion; emotion powers conversation.” “There’s a lot of fixing that needs to be done.” “Suddenly, being Facebook friends with your mom will seem less ridiculous than following 4,000 strangers on Twitter.” Full document laying [...]

I’ve worn either glasses or contacts since 2nd grade so I know how important correcting my vision is to be able to do my job– without vision correction I can’t see or do anything. I guess I could just site around and listen to the radio all day. A British [...]

Shel Israel has written a great case study for his new book Twitterville on how to use twitter to catch a PR disaster before it becomes nightmare and how to put it out quickly using twitter. Israel outlines how Scott Monty, Ford’s head of social media, catches a web site [...]

The latest issue of A List Apart examines how building “a website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver.” It looks at what content strategy is, why it’s important and how it effects design.