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Rumor: Yahoo Allegedly Acquiring Tumblr

Aggregated Content — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:29 +0000

By Christina Jones Rumors are swirling that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Tumblr. Apparently Ken Goldman, Yahoo’s CFO, explained the Internet giant’s concern for its aging users. In an attempt to appeal to the 18-24 year-old-demographic, they’re seriously considering bring Tumblr on board. “One of our challenges is we have an aging demographic,” explained Goldman [...]

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Say hey to Paul St John Mackintosh, our newest contributing writer

Paul St John Mackintosh — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:47:06 +0000

My life on the borderland between text and tech started in adolescence as a sci-fi nerd, dreaming of a future that started to come true around the release of the first Star Wars film, and has since been outstripping most fancies from that era year on year, hand over fist. As a writer and editor, [...]

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Tumblr Brings Ads to their Mobile App

Juli Monroe — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:30:16 +0000

Looks like no social media channel is immune to ads. Today, Tumblr joins the ranks with ads on their mobile devices. Here’s the announcement on their blog. They seem similar to Twitter promoted posts, and the Tumblr staff assures us we’ll only see them “every now and then.” Naturally, I fired up Tumblr on my iPad [...]

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Morning Links — Blogging, Pope e-books and more

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:26:14 +0000

Results of Credo Survey Suggest Students Unprepared for Digital Literacy (Good e-Reader) Diversion Books Brings Pope eBook to Market at Ungodly Speed (Digital Book World) Why You Should Not Learn HTML (The Digital Shift) The Current State of Individual Blogging (The Casual Kitchen) Kindle Daily Deals: More Twisted by Jeffrey Deaver (and 3 others)

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Book Promotion: What Works, What Doesn’t

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:02:28 +0000

Thanks to Nate over at The Digital Reader for alerting me to this great blog post by author Lindsay Buroker. Buroker runs through a number of Amazon ‘tricks’ which, for various reasons, are losing steam as powerhouse author tools. Some tools, such as tagging and keyword manipulation, never worked that well anyway because people don’t [...]

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More reviewers say ‘yes’ to indie authors today, but getting noticed is still an uphill climb

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:10:34 +0000

Allen Schatz published his first book two years ago. After things didn’t work out with an agent, he went the self-publishing route and knew he had to market on his own, which meant contacting reviewers. Some said yes, many said no. But Schatz noticed a change in the business around this time and self-publishing didn’t [...]

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Turning Blogs Into E-Books: Meet the founder of Ebook Glue

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:44:12 +0000

Shantanu Bala figures he was probably around 10 or 11 years old when he first began picking up the basics of computer programming. “I was just really interested in technology and video games when I was young,” he says. Along with a few friends, he started toying around with those video games—learning how they worked, [...]

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Joanna Cabot’s Best of 2012: Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:23:17 +0000

TeleRead’s Toronto-based senior writer Joanna Cabot, currently our most prolific blogger by a long shot, wrote over 100 articles for this site in 2012. (And that’s not counting her daily Morning Roundups.) What were some of her best-loved and most popular stories of the year? For your holiday reading pleasure, here are a few you may enjoy [...]

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Tell Dec. 6 DPLA hackfest what a good blog editor/creation tool should be like—to help libraries and patrons easily create their own stuff

David Rothman — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:33:57 +0000

If only WordPress, Drupal and the like were as easy to use as Windows Live Writer (screenshot) or at least the less cluttered versions of Microsoft Word! Inserting images and sizing and positioning them just right, for example, can be so much simpler with LW and Word. That’s why, here and here, I urged theDigital Public Library of America to come up with a good free blog editor, [...]

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Book Bloggers: Are they killing lit criticism, or saving it?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:48:57 +0000

Earlier this week, the Chair of this year’s Man Booker prize judges, Peter Stothard, made headlines when he suggested that the overabundance of book bloggers today “is drowning out serious criticism, to the detriment of literature,” according to an article in the Guardian. From the article: “Although Peter Stothard, who is editor of the Times Literary Supplement, is a [...]

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TeleRead Senior Writer Chris Meadows steps down

Chris Meadows — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:07:10 +0000

Well, it’s been fun, but I’ve just made my last post to TeleRead as a regular contributor. Starting tomorrow, I’m moving to The Digital Reader, to write for my friend Nate Hoffelder. It’s important to note that there are no hard feelings between me and NAPCO or new editor-in-chief Dan Eldridge, who I’m confident will [...]

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Cowbird.com seeks to bring back the art of storytelling, on-line

Chris Meadows — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:15:00 +0000

On ReadWriteWeb, Alicia Eler reports on Cowbird.com, a site meant for telling stories that are too long for social networking. Sounds an awful lot like a blog to me, but Eler explains the site has broader ambitions pertaining to storytelling in general: What Cowbird is really trying to do, however, is something much bigger than [...]

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How important is linking to scoop breakers?

Chris Meadows — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:25:52 +0000

You might have noticed that many of the stories I write link to blog posts elsewhere, and some even have a “Found via [source]” link at the bottom. This is because it’s a core value of news blogging that if you find a story somewhere else, you link back and so share some of your [...]

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Robert X. Cringely to repost book Accidental Empires to blog

Chris Meadows — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:22:22 +0000

Technology writer and blogger Robert X. Cringely (the one behind the 1996 TV miniseries Triumph of the Nerds, not the InfoWorld columnists) has announced he is going to be rebooting his written-in-1989, updated-in-1996 history of Silicon Valley, Accidental Empires for the modern Internet age: he is going to blog it. Over the next few months, [...]

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Michael Arrington, Paul Carr leave TechCrunch for new ventures

Chris Meadows — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:52:37 +0000

I have had a little fun over the last month, perhaps about the same kind that comes from watching a train wreck, in watching the fracas surrounding TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s decision to start a venture capital fund, and his subsequent ouster from the tech blog he founded. There was some concern that being a [...]

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