The Media Drop

Dan Gillmor posts a call to action to those of us who are slammed with comment and trackback spam (mostly the latter) - I’ve got to say that since my hosts at Zubr Communications have installed James Seng’s MT_TrackbackAntiSpam plugin I haven’t received one trackback spam. Anyone else have luck with this solution?

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If you live in Arkansas - or even if you don’t - and you’re looking for a Web-related opportunity with a media outlet, then check out the job posting for a Web Producer position at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. It’s a part-time gig, but might be a solid opportunity for someone looking to get this kind […]

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Like the DJs quoted in this article, I don’t expect this to become some sort of overnight sensation - but as the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Lauren Bishop reports, acting as your own deejay at a wedding or other social event isn’t totally unheard of. Bishop’s story includes details about a couple who have “invested” in a […]

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MarketingVOX posts details about MTV’s plan to show all the post-Video Music Awards video content on the music network’s Overdrive Internet component. Unfortunately, you still have to have Internet Explorer to run it - Firefox, Opera, and other browser-preferring users aren’t able to use the video playing tool, which uses Microsoft technology.

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Make sure and place your votes in BusinessWeekOnline’s survey of the “Best of the Web” - including blogs, travel sites, podcasts, and much, much more.

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Over at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) weblog, Eric McErlain published some information about an effort by ABC News to get access to various Test, Research & Training nuclear reactor locations in the United States this summer, apparently for an upcoming segment on “20/20″ on September 9. Sounds innocent enough, right? Wrong. As it turns […]

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In what has to be the prime example for dumb luck, I’m happy (sort of) to report that my traffic today is, well, a multiple - higher than two - more than it usually would be - all because I happened to use the name of Google’s new IM/Voice chat client in the title of […]

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It’s been pretty apparent in recent years that the staggering amount of material online is ripe for the picking for those who would love to plagiarize other works. At the same time, institutions of higher learning and other groups have found it just as easy to search out source material for papers, articles, and other […]

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On Tuesday, Ziff Davis Media made public the decision to name John McCormick editor-in-chief and Anna Maria Virzi as executive editor of Baseline magazine, one of Z-D’s that focuses on IT solution measurement to help companies make strategic decisions about their overall infrastructure.

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This one’s a few weeks old, but I would be remiss if I hadn’t posted it for TMD readers. Over at the 92nd St. Y blog, they’ve posted an interview with Seth Mnookin, former Newsweek writer and author of a recent book about troubles inside the New York Times newsroom. Based on the few questions […]

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