- This Week in Scandals. ProPublica tracking of the top five investigative stories of the week.
- New GAO Reports: Auto Industry, Troubled Asset Relief Program
December 5, 2008
Friday ORB Roundup
November 19, 2008
Massachusetts leads in `new economy’, Washington 2nd, Oregon…
The 2008 State New Economy Index (PDF) ranks states’ ability to thrive in an information-driven, creative economy. The new economy is strong in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, Mountain West and the Pacific Northwest; 14 of the top 20 states are in these four areas.
Read more about the new economy, as well as, the full state rankings on Stateline.
November 13, 2008
Thursday ORB Roundup
Newspapers, writing, Obama, and the housing market…
November 10, 2008
Tweet, Tweet
I have been twittering a bit . Twitter, a social media tool, is a fast-growing technology that months ago defied an easy description. That is no longer the case. Twitter found its stride during the election
All election day long, I, and many others, were glued to Twitter’s Election2008 stream. Mark Friesen even configured a special Portland election page that featured feeds from Doug Perry and Scott Nelson, as well as Twitterers across the Portland area who were expressing their election thoughts in real-time. Mark’s page is still active. The page is no longer election specific but it is still a great place to check out what certain Portlanders are saying. (Think of Twitter as an AP feed for the community.)
Interested in starting your own Twitter account? Check out this great primer by Sarah Evans on building a Twitter community over at Mashable. She provides tips on how to search, the quirky lingo, as well as, a general how-to.
November 8, 2008
Native American Heritage Month
November is National American Indian Heritage Month, making now a good time read NAJA’s 2007 Reading Red Report (PDF). The report is a content analysis of general audience newspapers in circulation areas with high percentages of Native Americans
Also, you might want to check out how some organizations are recognizing the month.
- The Library of Congress pays tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.
- The National Educators Association compiled a booklist that includes titles ranging from pre-K to grade 9 and up.
- Explore Native American heritage through Native American stories.
October 27, 2008
Twitter shows a 343% growth rate
Twitter.com is the fastest-growing US online social networking site, according to a recent Nielsen report. (PDF)
MySpace still tops the list of most heavily trafficked social networking sites, according to the same survey but it’s grow appears to have stalled. Facebook, on the other hand, increased by about 116 percent, from 18 million unique hits to 39 million. LinkedIn also showed significant growth.
October 17, 2008
Photographer Jerry Greenberg v. National Geographic Society
A Florida photographer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit a landmark copyright decision to determine whether federal appellate courts in Georgia and New York have interpreted it correctly.
The move by freelance underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg extends his 11-year fight with the National Geographic Society over its use of his photographs in a CD compilation of every edition of its flagship magazine.
Between 1962 and 1990, National Geographic published 64 of Greenberg’s photos, including one of a shark in the Florida Keys that became a magazine cover. National Geographic paid Greenberg for the publication rights, which were conveyed back to Greenberg in the mid-1980s, said the photographer’s longtime Miami attorney, Norman Davis of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
In 1997, when National Geographic developed “The Complete National Geographic,” a CD archive of its entire magazine library, Greenberg attempted to negotiate a new publication contract based on the CD library. But National Geographic claimed the CD set did not infringe Greenberg’s copyright, Davis said. [Full Article]
October 15, 2008
Wednesday ORB Roundup
- Automattic (the parent company responsible for WordPress) has acquired PollDaddy. I checked to see if our access to Poll Daddy has changed in any way. It has not. WordPress.com blogs are now fully integrated with PollDaddy.
- Will there be a democratic wave on Election Day? Stateline thinks so.
- Hulu is streaming tonight’s debate.
September 25, 2008
Reminder: Yo! Poll Daddy-O
Want to get readers engaged with your story? Let them express their opinions about the topic. It takes only a minute or two to create an online poll.
Online will host two short (20 minutes) Poll Daddy training sessions tomorrow in the old news conference room. Sessions are at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
To see Poll Daddy in action, go to www.oregonlive.com/politics and check out our presidential poll.
