Month: November 2008

  • No reports of plates thrown in pottery festival duel

    This weekend is the weekend of the dueling pottery festivals in tiny Seagrove, NC. I’m heading to the upstart one at the old Luck’s Beans plant instead of the traditional one. I suspect visitors to Seagrove will be at an all-time high for this weekend because the festival war has been getting a lot of…

  • Love them links

    I sent some stats to Scott Karp on what I think is a pretty successful example of “link journalism.” (Karp is credited with coining that term and has a company, Publish2, built around the concept.) Like articles, the reader interest in content that is a set of links varies with the subject matter, but in…

  • I found it on YouTube

    NAA Beth Lawton looks at YouTube and newspapers. She links to a neat Google map of newspapers with YouTube channels. Having a presence on YouTube is a no-brainer to me, but apparently it’s controversial in spots. How many times have you heard someone say: “I found it on YouTube.” It’s a lot easier to adjust…