Pew Research, Project for Excellence in Journalism: Drudge Report: Small Operation, Large Influence
Primary sources of outside traffic in order: Google, Drudge Report, Twitter. Traffic from Facebook is growing, and for some media organizations it was second or third, according to the Pew Study.
“People tell me that content is king, but that is not true at all,” says Rishad Tobaccowala, chief strategy and innovation officer at Vivaki, the digital-media unit of Publicis Groupe SA. “Most people make money pointing to content, not creating, curating or collecting content.”
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> Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. The old saying is that we hear of the CIA’s failures, but not of their successes. Apparently there were that many successes after all.
> The Thank-You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk. I read part of this book and listened to part of it. It’s best as an audio book to hear Vaynerchuk’s pacing and emphasis.
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I bought MS Office 2010 Student when I bought a new computer for the home in May. Maybe I should have saved the money.
Because of Google Docs and Zoho, I haven’t needed to install MS Office yet. I like having my documents in the cloud where I can work on them from various sites and where’s it’s so easy to share with others.
Google Docs and Zoho have moved MS Office from being essential to …? Well I’m not sure what that need will be. I have found it yet.
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Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America’s Eagle Scouts by Alvin Townley. A good book to read at a Boy Scout summer camp in July. The book interviews men across the country who look back on what and how earning the Eagle rank has helped them.
I hope soon to be the parent of an Eagle and I hope the time and effort has been worth it. One thing about the Eagle award is that it is earned by the boy. There are a lots of parents and scoutmasters pushing, but it’s the boy’s award.
Even in the Scouting organization, only about 2 percent of boys who have even been in Scouting earn Eagle. I’ve been a Scout leader in a troop where the percentage is higher. The current group of boys working on their Eagle are boys I’ve known since they were in Tiger Scouts.
Red Gold by Alan Furst — a World War II mystery. This wasn’t Furst’s first book, but I liked the book enough to want to ready his first book.