Entries from Lucas Grindley's blog | Exploring the new way for journalism tagged with 'Social Networking'

MySpace News worth using

After about an hour using the beta version of MySpace News, I'm pretty sure it's going to be worth your time. Articles from blogs and other media outlets are funneled into categories on MySpace News. Then users read and rank...

Gay people more likely to read your blog

A new poll reports that gay people are not only more likely to read your blog, we’re also more likely to use the Internet than straight people. Here’s how the numbers from Harris Interactive’s poll stack up: - Indicated they...

Lesson No. 1 if Google is an address bar

People really do use Google in place of their address bar. Users sometimes call me at work because they can’t find heraldtribune.com despite a specific URL provided in the newspaper, such as http://www.heraldtribune.com/building. The /building part isn’t recognized by Google....

Can't be the social network, so join the network

With TIME magazine’s recent pronouncement that we are all the person of the year because we participate in this alter-world of media, I’m reminded of something I hear from folks in the online journalism world far too often. It goes...