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This is too rich. - Patrick Thornton

Another industry fighting change - Patrick Thornton

I would love to see Netflix's streaming get some new movies. And some better buffering! - Patrick Thornton

Ortiz is taking his link journalism to the next level by incorporating Publish2 into his work flow. This will allow his users to submit their own links to interesting content from around the Web. Together, their link journalism should be very good. - Patrick Thornton

UK newspapers aren't being very social with social media. Why? Hard to break old habits? - Patrick Thornton

This non-profit startup focuses on hard news and public interet journalism in the Phoenix area. We especially like the use of social media for soliciting tips. - Patrick Thornton

Mauriello is nominated for her excellent live tweeting of "bonusgate," a public corruption investigation in Pa. Her fellow reporters in Harrisburg retweeted her excellent work all day long. - Patrick Thornton

"The most troubling statitics we’ve seen are that there are 16.5% less high school users, and 21.7% less college users. There have been rumors that these younger user groups are being aliented by their parents joining the service, and this data seems to prove it." - Patrick Thornton

I regret to inform you that BeatBlogging.Org’s funding will be running out in about two months. It has been a great ride. We’ve chronicled a lot innovative beat reporters and news organizations and have helped highlight best practices. I hope through the work that we have done that we have helped journalists learn how harness the power of social media, blogging and other Web tools to help improve beat reporting. BeatBlogging.Org will not, however, be disappearing. There is still work to be done and innovation to be chronicled. BeatBlogging.Org is too strong of a brand to let die. - Patrick Thornton

Twitter’s power only becomes apparent to new users once they get some followers and find worthwhile people to follow. Unfortunately, many people don’t know how to attract followers or build a community on Twitter. Without a good community of people that you are following and that are following you back, Twitter offers little value. But Twitter is a fantastic tool for journalists, content creators and just about anyone really, and that’s why if you take a little time to first build your own little community on Twitter, you’ll find much better results in the long run. - Patrick Thornton

The Daily Dig continues to be one of our favorite daily link round up efforts. Very well done. - Patrick Thornton

Howard is right on. - Patrick Thornton

Sucks to work for Microsoft. - Patrick Thornton

"And I can’t let Wasserman get by with the shot about “further” skewing journalism toward the young, hip and technically sophisticated. Please. Every audit of newspaper content (I have conducted some myself) shows that our content is heavily skewed toward people my age (that’s middle age) and older (especially if you don’t count sports coverage, where most athletes are younger). Middle age and older is our demographic, both in readership and in content. As Steve Yelvington tweeted sarcastically this morning after linking to Wasserman’s column: Journalism is just, like, so totally hip and young already. Among the many reasons newspapers don’t have much audience with people who are young and hip is because our content too often reflects ignorance of the world they live in. Such as this column by Wasserman." - Patrick Thornton

The Plain Dealer recently called on reporters to interact more, and this shows why interaction can help make a better product. Schoenberger enters the comments and provides additional facts and figures. His presence helped make the comments less volatile, despite this being a topic with passionate people on both sides. Most of all, however, he helped make journalism better by directly responding to claims made by commentors. - Patrick Thornton

Microsoft, go fuck yourself. - Patrick Thornton

"The idea that a large screen Kindle (or any similar device) could save newspapers is a joke — and one that perhaps shows these newspapers do not even know their own killer. It’s not the “paper” part of newspaper that’s the problem, it’s the “news.” As in, newspapers are way too slow at delivering it in the age of the Internet. People are unsubscribing from newspapers because what’s the point of reading something in print a day after you’ve read it online?" - Patrick Thornton

"Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo, the futures consultancy owned by Publicis Groupe, suggested blame be passed around. Clients? "Lazy." Agencies? "Fire a few fat cats." The end result: marketing is an expense rather than an asset, Tobaccowala said." - Patrick Thornton

"Roarty has gone from a Twitter skeptic to a Twitter believer. Why? Because he now finds a lot of value in Twitter. In fact, he now breaks most of his news first on Twitter. His turnaround is largely due to the strong network he is building on Twitter. Roarty even says that Twitter is starting to replace Google Reader as a research tool." - Patrick Thornton

This is what makes Google so great. - Patrick Thornton

Berger understands that timing is important. How much will people care about swine flu in a month? Hard to say, but I do know they care right now, and Berger is here to provide answers to their questions. - Patrick Thornton

I blame Shaq for a lot of stuff. - Patrick Thornton

Ning quietly chugs along, while other social networks get more press. Ning can be a great tool for news orgs. - Patrick Thornton

Yikes, this is a bad idea. - Patrick Thornton

"Now more than ever, company marketers are charged with improving performance with fewer resources and shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics like SEO and social media. There are significant benefits from combining search engine optimization and social media marketing tactics ranging from increased social network discovery via search to the ability to attract links for improved SEO. " - Patrick Thornton

Is lying the only way Microsoft can fight back? - Patrick Thornton

"FacebookFacebook reviewsFacebook reviews hit its 100 million user milestone back in August 2008. Can you believe it went from 100 million to 200 million in less than 8 months? When you have hundreds of thousands of users, 100 percent growth in such a short period is impressive. But when you have a hundred million users, it’s nothing short of amazing." - Patrick Thornton

This is probably the cheapest way to do a screencast. Maybe not the best, but a good way to get your feet wet before you commit to an expensive program. - Patrick Thornton

"Last week we focused on sports writers and said that it wasn’t easy for us to find innovative, beatblogging sports reporters. Some of you took offense to that and sent in additional nominations. It turns out that you were right; there are lots of innovative, beatblogging sports reporters (just not on the scale of their news colleagues). This week we’re back with three more, really innovative sports beat reporters." - Patrick Thornton