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Keep Facebook from 'liking' too much of your private life

UPDATE: More details are emerging from the profound privacy and marketing changes being introduced by Facebook.
I have added a link set of related articles at the bottom of this post to illuminate what is happening with these changes. That list of articles will update as I do more reporting.

What is not to ‘like’ about the new Facebook?
This is the ‘Like button” that you will now see on all of your fave Web sites.

Go ahead and click on it and then go to Facebook and check your profile.
Facebook tells developers that the ‘Like’ button will add their Web site to people’s profiles.

This is the new button you will see everywhere on the Web.
What was revealed today was that Facebook wants to be everywhere you go and collect rich data about your preferences. This cute little button unlocks a new Pandora’s box of privacy concerns.

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Haiti: Visual data helps relief workers see hardest hit areas

Haiti: Forget 3D TV hype for a moment and look what Google has done with 3D pictures here to aid in the rescue efforts in Haiti.

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Giant space photo reveals snow smothering Britain

U.K.: Tour this ginormous photo of a snow-blanketed Britain produced by NASA (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.)

Displaying really big photos in really small places (Like a blog or a mobile phone screen) is a powerful story tool in today’s data-driven environment.

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Giant space photo reveals snow smothering Britain
killin, scotland
January 09 — 09, 2010

Jailbreaking the iPad in the name of journalism

Jailbreaking the iPad in the name of journalism

Jailbreaking the iPad in the name of journalism
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Germany's Mathias Döpfner: Our newspapers show 25.4% profit

MONACO: Mathias Döpfner opened his interview segment at the Monaco Media Forum with the stunning news that the German media giant’s newspaper division is showing a 25.4% profit.

“If print is a dead business, then this kind of death feels pretty comfortable for me.”

No kidding. Springer is riding in the opposite direction of almost every other western media house. Yes, Arianna Huffington is also on stage but is clearly outclassed in this discussion.

VIDEO
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A lighter moment at the U.S. Senate press room

Robb at the U.S. Senate press room

Robb at the U.S. Senate press room

Sometimes it is fun to be a journalist, after all.

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New Media seminars at The Toronto Star

Join us October 5-7, 2009 at The Toronto Star for three days of hands-on instruction on Web reporting, video reporting and visual multimedia techniques.

Details: http://toronto.eventbrite.com

What will I learn?
WEB REPORTING - Monday, October 5
Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, manage a Twitter persona for yourself or your organization and dig into many delicious ways to use social media for research and publishing.

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New Media seminars at The Toronto Star
Toronto, ontario
October 05 — 07, 2009

Video editing seminars (London)

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Four days of seminars on video journalism - reporting and editing
Produced by Visual Editors and Beamups.com

Which new media skills do you or your staff need most in the next 12 months?

After having worked closely with journalists and editors in newsrooms large and small in many parts of the world, I have a pretty clear sense of the training needs and am keen to match them to extremely practical workshop experiences.

But, I really need your help to confirm this. Will you please help me out with some data?



Please answer the poll:

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“Stop your presses!” U.S. Newspapers told to write off print.


- the man who invented the and the super brain behind talks with Charlie Rose for an hour about the next steps he sees for U.S. Newspapers. He prescribes drastic steps to rescue the lions of the old media.

Here’s how this video clip opens up - which is brilliant story craft in its own right.

Charlie Rose:
So to play offense for a newspaper for you means what?

Marc Andreessen:
Oh, you got to kill the print edition.

Charlie Rose:
You would stop the presses tomorrow?

Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.

Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.

Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.

Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.

Marc Andreessen:
Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition. You talk to any smart investor who controls any amount of money, he will tell you that the game is up. Like it’s completely over. And so the investors have completely written off the print operations. There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone.

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