April 2008

When TV Listens To Its Viewers, Amazing Things Happen

by Jonathan Coffman April 28, 2008

I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at ways news organizations can connect and interact with their viewership. This morning I was greeted by a basic, but excellent interaction on Good Morning America.  I’ve got ABC turned on in my hotel room this morning for background noise and they ran a story about the [...]

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Why It's PayPal's Fault, Not The Browser

by Jonathan Coffman April 27, 2008

About a week ago there was some buzz floating around about how PayPal may block Safari because it doesn’t have phishing protection built in. This has since been retracted by PayPal: PayPal: No plans to block Safari A representative for PayPal on Friday said the ecommerce firm is developing features to block customers from logging [...]

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links for 2008-04-26

by Jonathan Coffman April 26, 2008

Twitter Raising Money: How Much Is It Worth? – Silicon Alley Insider Is Twitter worth $150 million? YouTube University gets failing grade from prof, students Twitter: 8 Reasons Why It’s The Blogger’s New Sidekick | Performancing.com BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Rules for journalists/bloggers/witnesses? A Guardian debate THE BLOGGING MONSTER RETURNS…. « WGBH Lab Blog [...]

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Twitter, A Journalist's Best Friend

by Jonathan Coffman April 25, 2008

Here’s a little nugget and inspiration I’d love to get some feedback from the masses on: I wasn’t actually able to take in any of this live last week, but the amazing power of Twitter can do a reporter’s work for them. Take a look at the first-hand accounts of people who felt the earthquake [...]

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Mollom – Spam Control and More

by Jonathan Coffman April 24, 2008

I came across this service a little earlier in the week and can’t wait to give it a try! It is quite possibly the first real competitor to Akismet for community spam filtering and control. The Drupal community is all up in arms with praise for the beta-service. Sometime next week I think I’ll toss [...]

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How I Exercise My Mind

by Jonathan Coffman April 23, 2008

Because I’m constantly connected to real people as well as the Internet it can be difficult sometimes to keep your mind sharp and on focus. I’m not perfect in that regard, that’s for sure. But I do try to keep a fairly clean calendar with important events and conversations.  In addition to my email and [...]

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links for 2008-04-22

by Jonathan Coffman April 22, 2008

UserVoice Has anyone tried this yet? I’m adding it to my list to check out. Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today. Tweet

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On Email Organization

by Jonathan Coffman April 22, 2008

For the last month or so I’ve been on a rampage, an email rampage. I haven’t quite hit Inbox Zero but inbox 30-40 suits me well actually. Here’s what I’ve done: I now have only 2 visible email addresses, Gmail and my @jonathancoffman.com mail. Those other addresses (.Mac, Yahoo!, Mizzou, and my secondary Gmail) all now [...]

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New Research on Premium Branding

by Jonathan Coffman April 21, 2008

This weekend I got the chance to sit down and read some of the huge stack of magazines that I previously hadn’t had time to read. I certainly didn’t make it through all of them, but a couple caught my eye. One of the most recent ones is the April 28th edition of Business Week.  [...]

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A Personal Update

by Jonathan Coffman April 19, 2008

Today’s post has two different themes, 1) a change in blog format and 2) my job search. I wanted to start out by saying that I’ve changed the way things work on here a little. After getting several emails, I re-evaluated having my Twitter updates archive to my blog. I’ve decided that there isn’t very [...]

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