Like other newspapers, the Herald has seen the benefits in relying on humans over bots in running social media accounts.
"The whole business of using advertising to fund communication on the Internet is inherently self-destructive" nie.mn/16OnxtH 
Morning Links: January 8, 2009
A belated happy new year to everyone trying to do good journalism or enable others to do so.
— Online-video viewing time increased 40 percent in the past year — fodder for anyone who wants to justify more video on their site.
— Those Connecticut papers on the brink have been rescued, at least for now.
— Rick Edmonds says that Atlantic article on the impending demise of The New York Timeshas some basic math problems. “Relax, Times-o-philes. The scenario is not the least bit plausible…corporate finance is not like an auto loan, in which the repo man comes if you miss a few payments.”
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