AOL's Tim Armstrong and HuffPo's Arianna Huffington Video Interview on Acquisition Deal
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: As Cody Brown said, if this is the future of content space on the web, I'm concerned.
With the acquisition of one of the Internet’s best-known news brands, AOL is making its biggest move so far as it seeks to establish itself as a content leader on the Web.
How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. « Emily Bell(wether)
Wikileaks has ignited a debate about the rights and responsibilities attached to freeing information.It has illustrated that Governments, however well intentioned, do not have the best judgement in terms of what it is right for citizens to know. It has shown that the established media no longer necessarily gets to make that call either, and forces us all to think about the consequences of that shift.
Innovation 101: Develop Talent
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: Do what's best for the people on your team. Not what's best for sales, the company, etc. That'll all fall into place if you treat your team right.
Success is defined not by accomplishments in the market but by the accomplishments of the people around you.
Hey, AP: Here’s How To Link Properly
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: The AP is bad for the web, bad for the news industry.
The difference is that the AP’s way of citing websites doesn’t give any meaningful credit to the sites they take information from — that is, those sites receive no link referrals, which would otherwise help boost their search engine rank.
A Creative Commons Christmas Carol
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: A jab at the RIAA and awesome singing from great web people.
Scotty Iseri of Scotty Got an Office Job and Matthew Latkiewicz of Zendesk present “A Creative Commons Christmas Carol”, part of the new Zendesk video series “Merry Holidays, Please Hold”.
Why did I just spend the past hour and half writing out code with a pencil? #yourteachingmethodsareantiquated
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: Another example of how standardized edu is teh suxxxxorz.
Why did I just spend the past hour and half writing out code with a pencil? #yourteachingmethodsareantiquated
Google News experiments with metatags for publishers to give “credit where credit is due
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: Google News experiments with metatags to give credit where credit is due. "Karma-via-code" as @megangarber says:
Google News is asking publishers to use the new tags under the broad logic that “credit where credit is due” will benefit everyone: users, publishers, and Google.
