Here is a sample of the comments on a story Bill Hudson did for Channel 4 regarding a paid credit score analyzing service: annmartina This is news? Seems more like a free ad for this service jwahlberg Agreed with annamartina – this is what I call “rip-off journalism.” dan This is basically an ad for [...]
WCCO’s new site at minnesota.cbslocal.com has neighborhood pages, including this one for Longfellow. Is CBS hopping on the hyperlocal train? Mashing up APIs? Going Web 2.0 (or is it 3.0)? Syndicating RSS? Call it what you will, but in practice, it’s not fit for hyperlocal consumption. They appear to be pulling content from sources including [...]
Update: Bob Collins has posted an explanation for what happened to his account in the comments here. Looks like some local media folks may have been a bit too social on Twitter yesterday regarding the future of TheUptake at the state capitol based on the scrubbing of Tweets I’m seeing today. For example, TPT’s Mary [...]
One of the popular “The Uptake is Biased” talking points recently has revolved around this tweet from Uptake intern, Erin Maye: Luke Hellier has referred to that tweet at least three times in blog posts as an example of political bias by Maye. Of course, anyone who’s ever done any video editing has surely made [...]
Since this question of Uptake bias was raised by Luke Hellier at Minnesota Democrats Exposed, let’s take a look at what he’s been up to lately to get a feel for what bias really looks like. Hellier recently posted a story on Minnesota Democrats Exposed where he republished what he thought (or pretended) was a [...]
It seems like self-proclaimed social media marketing gurus in this town like to get together on a regular basis to discuss the same case studies over and over again. Yes, Punch is good at running time sensitive promotions on Twitter. But what else is happening? Here are five that seem to be flying under the [...]
A friend of mine commented to me the other day that he gets a kick out of comments on The Deets where anonymous commenters tell me I should get a life, a job, a girlfriend, out of the basement, etc. Like him, I get a kick out of stuff like that, so let those comments [...]
To me, it’s interesting to look at how traffic from different sources behaves on The Deets. Below you’ll find three lists that break down the sources of traffic for three different actions people often take on this site: Subscribe, Comment, or Click on an Ad (AdSense, specifically). This represents Q4 2009. While there is some [...]
Yesterday, I pointed out that Delta appeared to be dumping bad news concerning their airline of the Northwest Airlines brand. At the time, some comments mentioned that Northwest officially was going away at midnight. Here we are in 2010 with our first negative Delta news, attributed to . . . Northwest Airlines. Old habits die [...]
Delta acquired Northwest Airlines near the end of October, 2008. Since then, Delta has been working on merging Northwest into the Delta brand. Planes are being repainted, gate signs updated, frequent flier plans merged, etc. But one area that seems to be resisting merging is which brand to associate with negative news. For example, the [...]
