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Facebook Subscriptions: Overdrive for Journalists?

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Though the Pages feature makes sense for organizations, which can’t otherwise have a Facebook presence, for individuals, it meant splitting your identity in two and managing both parts separately. As with every new feature Facebook introduces, this one is sure to spawn plenty of confusion. Related posts: Be Yourself.

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Is Rex Hammock the Groucho Marx of New Media?

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It underscores my reason for featuring him in the book: if you want to understand new media, his blog posts and tweets are required reading. Does it worry me that his praise was preceded by the cheerful admission that, other than the two pages about him, he hadn’t read any of it? Not at all. It’s classic Rex: funny, generous, and honest.

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A Boring But Mandatory Redesign Announcement

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Really, I should have added this feature long ago.). Again, this feature was overdue. The Subscribe/Connect/Follow widget to add links for RSS, e-mail subscriptions, and my various social-media identities. Sharedaddy to allow readers to share B2B Memes stories more easily. But for the moment, I’m going to let this redesign sink in.

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Will Mobile Formats Change Web Design Habits?

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Back in July, I wrote in this blog about how Reader, a new feature in Apple’s Safari browser, called attention to the proliferation of clutter in most Web page layouts. My hope was that tools like Reader and its peers, Readability and Instapaper , would encourage cleaner Web design. It was, admittedly, a faint hope.

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The Future of Content Is Not Destination but Identity

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Founded by Joshua Topolsky and several other former Engadget staff, it’s been praised for its dynamic design and for features like StoryStream, which aggregates the site’s content into timelines. MUD day 8: There’s been a lot of excitement in the past week about the new Web publication The Verge.

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Like It or Not, Mobile Connectivity Is the New Imperative

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Whether because our feature phones get more intelligent or we give in and switch to smart phones, more and more of us will become ubiquitously connected. Despite its urgency, so far I’ve resisted this new need (sort of—I acquired an iPad 2 instead). For society as a whole, mobile connectivity may not be entirely positive.

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Saving Your Content from Web Clutter

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A new feature in Safari 5.0, Until very recently, Safari, Apple’s Web browser, has for me always come in a distant second to Firefox. But with the latest update to Safari, that may change. Reader , is a compelling tool for reducing an article on the Web to its essence: the words.

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