Michael Cervieri

  • Michael Cervieri has written 222 posts for ScribeMedia.Org: The Business, Technology and Culture of Digital Media
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Things Journo Grads Should Do

Start a blog, take some pictures, create an amazing video. Congrats on graduating. Now get to work.

Semantics Matter. On the Social Web, Stop Calling Us Consumers.

If Twitter is chattered conversation you need to treat it as such. If you approached a social gathering like a party and said, how am I going to use this situation, and worse, articulated it and acted like it, you’d come off as abrasive and crude.

The Year the Media Died: Mad Mad Avenue Blues

A new parody to sung to the theme of American Pie takes down the media industry.

Codes and Tubes

I’ll be teaching at Columbia this fall and am considering what the Web site will be for the course. Drupal, Elgg, BuddyPress, Pligg? They’re all good. Not quite sure what I’ll choose but here are some of the ideas we’ll be talking about.

Playing with Toys - Issuu

Reviewing the PDF reader Issuu and seeing what it can do.

Daily Links - Some Business, Media and Technology Love

Links for April 29, 2009. Here’s what we’re following in the mothership.

Is Google News Getting more Googley?

Google launches a Digg-like iGoogle gadget and the Interweb rumor mill has it that they’ll soon update their news site with something more “intelligent.” What gives?

Dishonest, Incompetent or Chalk it up to an Innocent Fail?

Time rolls out yet another Top 100 list and doesn’t realize it’s been hacked. Hard.

Mapping the Swine Flue

Obsessed with the Swine Flu? Following every tweet about it? Now you can map it.

Who’s Following You?

Google tells publishers to update privacy policies they have with their viewers. Their behavioral tracking just went to 11.