Founded by veterans of the mobile industry, MizPee provides user reviews and locations of toilets (news you can use) in numerous cities.
Once you’ve settled upon your spot, you can use the same site to browse product deals (let’s call it consumer news) in the area.
MizPee is one of several inventions of YoJo Mobile, which describes [...]
The challenge for librarians (from PVLD Director’s Blog found via Everything is Miscellaneous):
A fundamental shortcoming of the library catalog is that it doesn’t (and as currently designed can’t) know the why for any given search.
The folks at Bibliocommons understand this dilemma and are finding real, practical ways to harness social networking concepts to transform the [...]
1. Information gatherer
New, original information consistently wins attention. This is the person making the phone calls, attending the meetings, digging through the records and translating data into a story.
2. Information networker
An information networker reformats information (including performing additional reporting) in order to make it relevant and acceptable to audiences on social networking sites (here [...]
Making fun of your information will get people involved with your information.
See if you can resist clicking on the Fark headlines;
Get a Fark account;
Make it clear you work for a journalism organization; painfully mock yourself for using Fark to boost attention to your content;
Write amusing headlines for your content and other content; a 1 to [...]
OK, blanchor is a terrible job title, but it’s the best something I could come up with to describe the duties of a blogger/anchor for your Web site. (Other ideas: Anchogger? Webitorialist? Newsguide? Network weaver? Node manager? Node master? Web anchor? Wanchor? Oh, my, now there’s a job title that sings. Wanchor.)
A blanchor anchogger [...]
