The Jeff Beckham Weblog

Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds? — Amit Agarwal with insightful analysis of the benefits of full-text news feeds.
New York Times adds sharing tool — The New York Times adds website functionality that lets users quickly post stories to social news sites like Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Newspaper pages of [...]

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Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson, who also wrote the terrific book The Long Tail, has posted some thoughts on his blog about what a “transparent” media organization would do. In this case, “transparent” means throwing the entire editorial process open for review and comment.
Anderson’s six tactics of transparent media are:

Show who we are.
Show what we’re [...]

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Robert Scoble answers a request for help from San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy on building a audience for his blog and getting the audience to engage. Robert was kind enough to offer more than a dozen quick tips — all of which would help any new blogger build an engaged audience.

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Ricky Gervais from The Office talks to Wired News about video games, short attention spans and his super-popular podcast.

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I love Google Reader almost as much as Robert Scoble, and to celebrate that, I’ve begun a linkblog. In the past, I’ve “starred” these types of stories in my newsreader program, saving them before going back and deleting them after I had read or written something about them.
But Scoble’s enthusiasm for sharing, rather than starring, [...]

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When you watch a football game on TV, there’s a yellow line stretching across the field that shows viewers where the team must go to get a first down. HowStuffWorks provides a fascinating look at the technology that goes into painting that line across the field on the screen.
Actually overhead in the stands of a [...]

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