Judge bans reporter from live tweeting trial
April 30, 2009
A judge shut down the use of Twitter in a Montana courtroom by NewWest.net during a trial. Founder Jonathan Weber had been covering the trial by posting play-by-play reports at www.twitter.com/NewWest.
10 lessons from a failed startup
April 30, 2009
You can learn a lot from failure, as Mark Goldenson discovered. In this piece he sums up some of the lessons he learned from his failed startup, including the challenges of content businesses.
How to write headlines that make people click
April 29, 2009
Great headlines lure readers into the text by promising a benefit or reward for the reader, in trade for the valuable time it takes to read more. This article summarizes 8 headline categories that work.
Swine Flu resources from ReportingonHealth.org
April 28, 2009
ReportingonHealth.org, a new Web 2.0 community for journalists covering health funded by The California Endowment, has just posted new resources on covering the unfolding swine flu outbreak, Vikki Porter writes. Read more »
Twitter users more likely to read news sites
April 28, 2009
Interesting analysis from comScore’s Andrew Lipsman: “When I looked at the percentage of visitors to Twitter.com who also visited the websites of some of the top online news brands and compared it to that of the total U.S. Internet audience, I found a particularly strong level of overlap. Read more »
Google News has new Twitter feed
April 27, 2009
Feed was launched April 21 and sends out one headline an hour. @googlenews
The Espresso Book Machine prints books in minutes!
April 27, 2009
The Espresso Book Machine is a new machine that prints books in minutes from a computer database. Read more »
Track swine flu news with Twitter, Google Maps
April 26, 2009
Here are some ways to monitor the latest news online about swine flu using Twitter and Google Maps Read more »
How to write great Twitter headlines
April 26, 2009
It’s a little known secret that people will retweet based on the headline alone, before even clicking through to the content. Read more »
Guide to local watchdog news sites
April 23, 2009
PBS MediaShift has published a guide to all the newish local watchdog news sites that have popped up over the past few years as online-only places for original journalism — from New West to the Arizona Guardian to MinnPost to Voice of San Diego. Read more »
