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Dean Betz

Dean Betz

Content director of chron.com, Houston Chronicle's news Web site.
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Digialjournalist.org looks back, hopes only to only save their jobs, elite status. Looking forward may save journalism.
@humbearto Thanks! Wish I was half as smart as the great minds I link up.
RT @paulbradshaw: What’s your problem with the internet? A crib sheet for news exec speeches - http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009...
Google seriously ramps up real-time search, among other new features. Via RWW http://www.readwriteweb.com/ #wmwdb
FYI: Do we need rules for journalists’ use of social media? - News from Journalism.co.uk http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors...
FYI: Lazyfeed Gets Even Lazier: Users Get TV-Like Feed Reader - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
RT @brainpicker: Digg 365 – superb new Digg Labs effort visualizes the top 10 stories for any day, month or year http://labs.digg.com/365/
RT @laheadle: @jayrosen_nyu you might ask how 'citizen judge' would compare with 'juror' -
Amused that this screed against news' interactive future appears at domain 'digitaljournalist.org'. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue09...
Hey, digitaljournalist.org folks! Participation extends pro journalism, doesn't replace it. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue09...
FYI: Annenberg Summit for Community Sites Focuses on HyperLocal Commerce - Local Onliner http://localonliner.com/2009...
David Bowie's first U.S. fan letter came from Amarillo, Texas. http://sandradodd.com/bowie h/t @MediaStorm
Apparently, Houston got snow this year before NYC. It's a crazy, mixed-up world.
Have great photos of today's Houston snow? Share them on chron.com. http://www.chron.com/commons... #storm09
Houston: Who's open, who's closed, in today's show? chron.com has a database for that. http://www.chron.com/databas...
Flickr user laukkanen offers video of today's snow in Houston. http://www.flickr.com/photos... #storm09
Tag your Houston snow reports today with #storm09. We'll be using them on chron.com.
FYI: Twitter Takes Features (and the Fail Whale) Mobile - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Tag your Houston snow reports Friday with #storm09. We'll be using them on chron.com; other media might too, right @miyashay?
@jimakin She wasn't smoking a cigar, was she?
If snow closes Houston schools (!), get updates from @e_mellon in chron.com's School Zone. http://blogs.chron.com/schoolz... #storm09
@ceebizz No, I'm counting on ClimateGate to be the topic du jour.
RT @miyashay: @ktrkhouston & friends, let's hashtag our big storm tomorrow! #storm09 ! // Count us in on #storm09.
Alan Mutter's first part of a profile of David Bennahum, who's working on Texas' next non-profit news site. http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009... #wmwdb
FYI: The man who may supersize non-profit news - Reflections of a Newsosaur http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009...
@JimAkin It didn't have a big steal-your-face on the hood, did it?
H/T @jdlasica: Sens. Feinstein and Durbin's attack on citizen journalism. http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...
@mathewi There's a lot that we do that isn't 'news'. Thank goodness!
@RWSparkle What's funny about racism in children?
@skadonk Crap. I'm nowhere near a subway today.
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