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WordCount recap – weekly news from the digital media biz

By Michelle V. Rafter on November 21, 2008 | 2 Responses

I’m starting what I hope will become a WordCount Friday feature, a recap of news and commentary on freelancing and the media business as reported by other blogs and news outlets this week. Happy reading: The case for independent news sites as profit-makers – David Westphal, a senior fellow at USC’s Annenberg’s Center on Communication [...]

Posted in Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Online news | Tagged All Freelance Writing, college newspapers, David Westphal, digital media, Jennifer Mattern, Online Journalism Review, Online news, PC Magazine goes digital, Six Apart, TypePad Journalist Bailout Program | 2 Responses

Link your WordPress, Six Apart blog to your LinkedIn profile

By Michelle V. Rafter on October 29, 2008 | 6 Responses

Ever since LinkedIn added a status update feature, the online business network’s members who blog – including lots of writers – have used it to let people know when they put new material online. Now LinkedIn’s made it even easier for bloggers to flag friends and acquaintances about new posts. The networking company has partnered [...]

Posted in Blogs, Social Networks, Technology, Web 2.0, Writing | Tagged LinkedIn, LinkedIn blog application, LinkedIn links to members' blogs, LinkedIn Open Source application beta test, Open Social, Six Apart, WordPress | 6 Responses

Go Web, Young Man

By Michelle V. Rafter on January 25, 2008 | 1 Response

Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, [...]

Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Technology, Web 2.0, Writing | Tagged About.com, Akismet, Automattic, Blogger, Blogging, Blogs, E.W. Scripps, Google, Los Angeles Times, Movable Type, New York Times, newspaper business sections, Newspapers, Orange County Register, Publishing, Publishing 2.0, Russ Stanton, Six Apart, TypePad, Wall Street Journal, WordPress, WordPress.com, World Economic Forum | 1 Response