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Letter to a young journalist
Don’t conclude from my previous post that I dislike journalism. All through middle and high school I woke up early to read the local newspaper each morning. I was the editor of our newspaper in high school. My mother wanted me to be a journalist. I’ve been thinking of the issues confronting journalism for a few years now. Back in early 2007, a journalist friend in the Midwest emailed me.
FireFox about:config stores the browser configurations. To access them , simply enter about:config in the address bar and hit "Enter". Last week I shared a quick tip on tweaking FireFox spell checking behavior with about:config settings – and found that many people liked it a lot. So here are more about:config tweaks Internet marketers and bloggers like myself will find useful : 1. Customize AwesomeBar suggestion algorithm:
7 FireFox About:Config Tweaks for Internet Marketers and Blogger
The Ultimate Guide to Netbooks: 100+ Resources, Tools, and Deal
Posted by admin in Uncategorized May 20th, 2009 If you like to do lots of computing on the go, chances are you’ve considered buying a netbook. These little devices pack a lot of functionality into a portable format, offering travelers, students, and others in need of productivity on the go lots of options for getting things done. Read on, and you’ll find more than 100 excellent resources for learning about, buying, and scooping up one of these tiny wonders. Get a good overview of what netbooks are all about from these resources.
Google Suggest Improves
Google has been testing many enhancements for Google Suggest and the latest update includes some of the best ideas used in the experiments: * showing recent searches from your search history if you're logged in and Web History is enabled * being able to remove suggestions from your search history In this example, "mailinator" is a suggestion from my search history. * adding the top search result to the list of suggestion for navigational searches * displaying the "Google Search" and "I'm feeling lucky" buttons below the list of suggestions
As previously anticipated , Gmail Labs added a feature that translates messages written in a foreign language. After enabling "Message translation" in Gmail Labs , you'll be able to translate any messages written in other languages by clicking on "Translate message to: English". "When Gmail detects one of your messages is in a language other than your default language, you'll see a header at the top of the message. Click the link that says .
Gmail Added Message Translation
Twitter Search Has Big Ambitions Posted On May 18, 2009 On May 1, added a search box to the right-side navigation area of its site. The system now indexes all posts (aka Tweets) in near-real time and shows results with the most recent first, just as they are posted raw and unfiltered. Twitter bought this technology when it acquired the startup Summize. Twitter may also be using the Summize technology to choose the most interesting search terms for the "Trending Topics" feature that shows under the search box.
Twitter Search Has Big Ambitions
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Twittera
Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Stephen Downes went ahead said the word, Twitteracy .OffiSync is a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003/2007 that integrates the office suite with Google Docs. You can open documents, spreadsheets and presentations already saved in Google Docs, edit them in Microsoft Office and save the files in Google Docs. The add-on creates a new revision of the document when you save it, but there's no option to automatically save the document periodically.
OffiSync - Integrate Google Docs with Microsoft Office
Slacker Geek: Update Your Facebook Profile from Outlook :: Mysti
Do you have Microsoft Outlook open all day at work dwelling on company business but would rather be updating your Facebook profile? Today we will look at a small add-on utility which allows you to interact with your Facebook profile from within Outlook. FBLook is a small utility that integrates seamlessly with Outlook and allows you to update your Facebook status, show what your playing in iTunes or WMP, see your friend status, and receive notifications. The download is less than 320KB and installation is quick and easy following the installation wizard.
Last week, my fellow Fool Tim Beyers argued that Twitter trumps Facebook in Web 2.0 potential, making it the better growth story and acquisition target. I believe the exact opposite . I'm not simply favoring the open-ended scope of social networking over a trendy micro-messaging megaphone. When I read Tim's primary gripe about Facebook -- that it "stinks at delivering ads" -- I was incensed.
Facebook Creams Twitter
6 Google Docs Features to Make Collaboration More Productive
Google docs is by far one of the easiest and most full featured collaboration tools available online. To get the most out of your collaboration, you need to make your documents do more for you, and go beyond just sharing them. Here are the 6 features that help you collaborate better, and more effectively using Google Docs:The Question Concerning Social Technology - O'Reilly Radar
I am an evangelist of social media and an active participant: on Linked In (business), MySpace (music) and Facebook (increasingly my online identity), I blog on several sites and I am a daily user of Twitter . I also make my living speaking to companies about the value and operating principles of these more open, participatory technologies.Tapping Communities to Accelerate Corporate Innovation I&#8
i 2 Votes Jim Collins related a story back in 1999 that well-describes the problems with and opportunities for innovation inside organizations.in Share 0 For the last five months, I have been an active user of Reddit. When I first got started with Reddit, I was really impressed by how much more democratic Reddit seemed to be than Digg and some of the other social media websites. As I talked to other Reddit users, I realized that I wasn’t alone in feeling this way. As Brent Csutoras noted in a recent post, there have been a significant amount of people who have been leaving Digg and going to Reddit.