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On reinventing the lowly classified ad
Simon Owens interviews Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing on reinventing classifieds and Scripps alum Christopher Ryan, founder of Future of News. Outing told Simon: “… without doing something radical sometime soon, the industry doesn’t have much hope.” He also said Craig Newmark and Craigslist is not to blame for the industry woes.
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Technically speaking …
I upgraded last night to Movable Type version 4.2 RC1 (a beta). Living bold! I also added three OpenID plugins and turned on some internal login features. This is the good news: Users can now log to make comments with their AOL/AIM screen name or their Yahoo, WordPress, Vox, and LiveJournal user ids in addition…
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A local connection to a viral infection by Weezer
Weezer – Pork And BeansUploaded by Weezer The band Weezer has a viral hit of a video by spoofing viral videos. This week it’s the No. 1 viral video. At YouTube today: Added: 1 week agoViews: 5,330,026 Duh! ValleyWag said: “Weezer understands how to work YouTube: allude to these 24 viral videos.” Susan Mernit said…