Web curation for November 4th 2010 through November 5th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for November 4th 2010 through November 5th 2010:

  • WordPress Adds Feature for Embedding Tweets –
    Months ago, Twitter released a clunky tool called Blackbird Pie for embedding tweets in blog posts. Today WordPress has radically simplified and improved tweet embedding with a new feature, also named Twitter Blackbird Pie.
    Beginning today, WordPress.com users simply need to copy a tweet’s URL and paste it on a line by itself to embed it in a blog post.
    Pasted URLs are converted into full tweets, which means these embedded tweets look as good as screenshots, but include the link back to t..   show all text

  • Poynter Online – Romenesko –
    Memo to US News & World Report employees
    From: Kelly, Brian To: INSIDE Sent: Fri Nov 05 15:31:30 2010 Subject: Digital Strategy
    To: U.S. News From: Bill and Brian RE: Completing Our Shift to the Digital World
    Colleagues, We're finally ready to complete our transition to a predominantly digital publishing model with selected, single-topic print issues. This will allow us to make the most of the proven products, useful journalism, and great audience growth we've been sustaining. Thanks to all..   show all text

  • From Twitter – RT @pfanderson Guide to making written material clear & effective http://bit.ly/a8bjbu #plain #language
  • What Your Phone Says About You [Graphic] –
    Sometimes the guys in our office like to get in stupid fights about phones. Yeah I know they do it on the blog, but they also do it in private as well times 1000. It is essentially the song that never ends, with Mike Arrington and Jason Kincaid erring on the side of Android and MG well, sigh.
    Here’s Arrington’s take on one such fight that happened today:
    “Earlier this evening in the office Jason Kincaid and I, both Android users, asked MG yet again why he won’t admit the..   show all text

  • Google To Facebook: You Can’t Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity –
    The war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google just made one small tweak to its Terms of Service that will have a big impact on the world’s biggest social network. From now on, any service that accesses Google’s Contacts API — which makes it easy to import your list of friends’ and coworkers’ email addresses into another service — will need to offer reciprocity. Facebook doesn’t, so it’s going to lose access to this key piece of the soc..   show all text


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