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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 26, 2010.]
Anonymity, community and commenting: We saw an unusually lively conversation over the weekend on an issue that virtually every news organization has dealt with over the past few years: anonymous comments. It started with the news that Peer News, a new Hawaii-based news [...]

[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 19, 2010.]
A raft of ideas at SXSW: The center of the journalism-and-tech world this week has been Austin, Texas, site of the annual conference South by Southwest. The part we’re most concerned about — SXSW Interactive — ran from last Friday to Monday. The [...]

The best way to keep crappy content from choking out good content? Keep creating and linking to good content. Google’s search dominance depends (at least in part) on its ability to lead users to the good stuff; makes sense to just produce quality stuff, link to it and pass it around, and let Google’s engineers do their jobs.


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  • Mark: That's a fair point, Steve. I think Jack and Steph's response would be that the advertisers are still maintaining their own voice online; the paper is
  • Steve W: I'm torn by this concept. I'd really like businesses to handle their social media in house. They know their message and audience (hopefully) and I'm n
  • Juno Ogle: Hey, thanks for the link. I hope ours will turn out as successful as the giNetwork.

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This is the personal blog of Mark Coddington, former reporter and University of Texas graduate student in journalism, and home of his thoughts on all things media-related.