The numbers have quieted most of the skeptics, including Clay Shirky. Today, the New York Times summed up a year of its digital circulation strategy, and the report reinforced the notion: there’s a there there.

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An approach called altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked. "There's a gold mine of data that hasn't been harnessed yet about impact outside the traditional citation-based impact," says Dario Taraborelli, a senior research analyst with the Strategy Team at the Wikimedia Foundation and a proponent of the idea.

People from all sides of the debate seem to agree at least that some definitions are needed. Today there seem to be three camps, or "theories"  for trying to define journalism and the modern journalist. via pbs.org

As the digital marketing landscape has evolved, so have the strategies. Changes in the structure and definition of media have broken apart the silos of paid, owned, and earned media and have spurred marketers to re-examine how paid, owned, and earned media can be integrated for greater success.

The Washington press differs from the Columbian and Albion in that a very simple toggle joint provides pressure to the platen and on each side of the platen are coil springs which raise it to open position.

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via vimeo.com a game going off in the american museum of natural history in nyc tonight.