From time to time, you may, as an administrator, find it useful to ensure that all users have some common shortcuts. Luckily, ensuring that shortcuts are distributed to all desktops is easy enough to accomplish. Here’s how: (more…)
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Reviewed: the Pentagon Wars – Reformers Challenge the Old Guard
Author: James G. Burton
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Year: 1993
ISBN: 9781612516004 -
On understanding a product
In a previous post, I said (about modern news outlets) “The result is a “product” that has no chance at measuring up …” I feel it is worthwhile to take a moment to discuss the understanding of what the product actually is. Ostensibly, the product of news reporting are news articles. If that had been true, however, clickbait and listicles would not be allowed to be; in that understanding, they are not only not good at delivering the product, they are outrageously bad at it. What, then, is the product?
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Newspapers and revenue streams
The last sentence of my previous post may seem strange to some. Comparing, or rather contrasting, news reporting and take-out fast food may seem strange, but I think the analogy serves, in that it is very much like comparing apples to oranges. I opened that post by saying that “It used to be that newspapers made money in order to produce news. … These days most newspapers produce news to make money.” Fast food franchises are operated with the express goal of making as much money as possible while spending as little money as possible. The result is fast food.
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News reporting in a profit-driven world
It used to be that newspapers made money in order to produce news. Sadly, this is for a large part no longer true. These days most newspapers produce news to make money. This has spawned such “innovative” ideas as the paywall, clickbait articles and listicles. The result is a “product” (and I use the term very loosely) that has no chance at measuring up to the standard set by the newspapers of yesteryear. With the exception of the trade press, in-depth reporting is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and something that is offered up very rarely.
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Cancel service
Why making it hard to leave your service makes regaining lost customers even more of an uphill battle
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Facebook – Missing Feature: Close thread
As a Facebook page admin, you have a number of tools. You can delete posts, threads and users, you can add users, and you can pin threads to the top, just to mention a few examples. One thing you can’t do, is close a thread. As admin for several pages, this is becoming a bit of a headache. On the one hand, many of the users of the pages in question have long histories of solid contributions, and the discussions can get lively. We want that to happen. On the other hand, discussions sometimes get out of hand, in particular when controversial topics are on the agenda.
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BTS: One, two, three, four – the solution
The solution to last week’s brain teaser is straightforward enough. Four times two is eight; eight times three is twenty four. The solution is the product of twenty four times four; ninety six.
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Podcasts: Radio for the online generation
Growing up, I remember coming into the kitchen most mornings to see my father at the table, eating breakfast while reading the newspaper and listening to the radio. That image is indelibly burnt into my memory, and is in all likelihood the reason why there is, to me, a sense of safety to talk radio programming.