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Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes
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Oct. 16, 2009, 5:16 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Most expensive Google keyword, The Economist’s video strategy, news delivered as poetry

At $99.44 per click, can you guess the most expensive search term in Google AdWords? http://tr.im/C0gw »

Hah. The Economist, famous for not identifying authors, does same with video: reporters speak off-camera http://tr.im/C0UN »

“Whose bright idea was it that news should be delivered in prose, anyway?” http://tr.im/C353 »

 
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