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Like everyone else, I saw John McCain’s selection of Alaska gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate as coming out of left field. Since the mainstream media (MSM) had no clue about Palin, they’ve been scrambling. And some of the reporting has been inaccurate and unabashedly biased.
The insightful folks at GetReligion, however, have done their duty faithfully [...]
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Fans of the most excellent (and free) Internet radio app Pandora may soon have to get their free music fix elsewhere. According to this story in the Washington Post, government regulations have doubled the royalties that Internet radio stations must pay performers; by contrast, traditional radio stations pay no such fees. Pandora expects to pay [...]
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I’ll be at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas next month, learning all the latest blogging/podcasting tips and tricks. I’m hoping to gain some insights into marketing and production as well as some ideas for my latest project, the Inside LCCS Podcast. Drop me a line if you’re attending.
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My work as a college faculty member requires me to teach–naturally. But since Lincoln is a small school, I’m sometimes able to pursue projects that fall outside typical faculty responsibilities. For the past couple months, I’ve been working to develop a podcasting project to help promote the school. It’s called Inside LCCS, "the insider’s guide [...]
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Public relations (PR) in the world of new media (blogging, podcasting) doesn’t work the same as it has for the print world. When you did something noteworthy in the old days, you’d write up a press release and send it to the relevant media outlets: newspapers, radio, TV, etc. That doesn’t work [...]
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Making money on the Internet is easy. I think I’ve made close to $30–without hardly lifting a finger–in two years. Which leads us to this truth:
Making a lot of money on the Internet is hard.
Without an effective strategy, you won’t be earning a living from your online experiences. [...]
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Brand new this week: Alltop.
What is it? Alltop is a kind of aggregator of all the top (all the top–get it?) news feeds on the Internet. They’ve piped in news from sites in nearly forty different categories (for example, career, food, health, fashion, celebrities, etc.) and update the feeds every ten minutes.
Who would use it? [...]
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