Here’s a good video from CNN that explains how cloud computing works and how you use it every day.
Wow! One out of four pageviews is from Facebook
In the United States one out of every four pageviews is from Facebook. Amazing! Google only accounts for one in eight page views (15 percent).
Developing a culture of trust
Developing a culture of trust is critical to the health of your organization. Trust fuels productivity. The message of trust is this… I think you are smart enough to know what to do, and if you make a mistake, you will tell me then fix it. From Andy Stanley at [...]
AT&T Service fails, but Google answers
The visual voicemail on my iPhone quit working about a month ago (I won’t say what caused it), but I called AT&T today to see if they could help me get it working again after missing a couple of voicemails. Surprisingly, I didn’t have to hold for an operator at [...]
Job seekers lack internet skills
A fifth of American’s don’t have Internet access and the demographic profile of those without access — generally older and less educated — match up to those who are the newly unemployed according to an MSNBC article published today. This digital divide separates not only who qualify for jobs and [...]
Will broadband and media innovation sustain democracy?
The free flow of information “is as vital to the healthy functioning of communities as clean air, safe streets, good schools and public health.” That’s what the Knight Commission on Information Needs of a Democracy concluded in their report on Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age. The 145 page report [...]
Twitter Faves
I’ve been busy at work, with kids and teaching so I haven’t had much time to post, but I have kept up with the online and online journalism world. My new favorite way of staying up to date is all of the great tweeps I am following on twitter. You [...]
When is paid content successful?
What metrics do you use to measure the success of a newspaper web site switching to a paid content model? Specifically, I’m thinking about how will Stephens Media know if their switch to a paid content model for the Pine Bluff Commercial? Here’s the metrics I think a site switching [...]
Why ruin their false reality for them?
This morning I ran across this video full of great facts about social media (the facts are great, but the music is not so great). My favorite fact: Social Media is now the #1 activity on the Internet (not porn)!
Temple on where newspapers need to head
John Temple, former editor the Rocky Mountain News, has some interesting comments on the latest Nieman Journalism Lab report on newspapers online market share and Rupert Murdoch’s latest comment in support of the newspapers implementing a pay wall.