One of the more conversational topics on twitter is whether an account should be populated only by feeds. We’re not going to discuss those reasons here, but what we will do is show you one good use of using feeds to create a parent-child account relationship that brings additional content into your master account.
The [...]
Category Archives: distribution
Post Twitter Feeds Back to Twitter
Whiteboard Junkie & Figuring Out News
Comments Comments
Perhaps this is more of a “true confession” than a work/news tip, but I’m a whiteboard junkie. I love to use the tool to figure out options for development, a user flow, or how to solve some process issue that can’t be understood until documented (in some way). My old Yahoo! and SportStations [...]
more...No One Said It Was Easy
Comments Comments
One of the smartest, most strategic guys I met in my time at Yahoo! was a guy named Ian Rogers.
Ian was (is) an unassuming leader, never accepting how what is should remain what’s next. Yahoo! Music had just bought his company, Mediacode, and I was on the integration/next phase team. We all were to take [...]
Full RSS Feeds As A Publisher
Comments Comments
RSS feeds are the lifeline of info junkies, and they are the friend of developers needing to pull simple published info from here to there. Case in point on the latter: The Charlotte Observer is part of the Newspaper Consortium, which includes sending articles to Yahoo! News for local news presentation (until we move to [...]
more...Firefox Extension for Triggering ‘Edit-Mode’
Comments Comments
After completing yesterday’s post about adding a simple query string after our URLs to trigger an ‘edit-mode’ for our sites, I got to thinking: Why not write a simple Firefox extension to do that instead?
Version 1.0 of that extension has been written and it is very elemental but works great. It places an icon in [...]
Using Twitter to report preps scores (a theory)
Comments Comments
Expanding on my previous post on Twitter mailbots here’s an idea:
Create a Twitter account for local high school scores.
Create a specific email address.
Identify who will provide you with scores (reporters/stringers/a school contact or a combination of all)
Get the email address that each person will use to post scores
Write a script that checks the from: email [...]
Building a Twitter mailbot
Comments Comments
I recently built a very simple Twitter mailbot for use on charlottebserver.com. Check it out: http://twitter.com/obs_election
The requirements were simple: Use a designated email address to send messages directly to a Twitter account.
Why email?
It’s safe to say that everyone in the newsroom knows how to use email
No need to share/learn a username/password for the account
The Twitter [...]
The “10 Reasons” Article
Comments Comments
Having only been part of the newspaper business about a year and a half, I can’t be considered an expert on the industry. When I read the 10 Reasons article being discussed in media circles, however, I did feel the editor/writer — like me — doesn’t have the whole picture. [...]
more...
Comments Comments