The News Review:
- Tumblr Makes Blogging Blissfully Easy
- New GooseGrade plug-in edits your blog for you
- Corporate Blogs Spring Up But Effectiveness Questions Remain
Tumblr Makes Blogging Blissfully Easy
New York Times
There?s even an instant-post button to include quotes from other blogs. Setting up a Tumblr blog takes about 35 seconds.
New GooseGrade plug-in edits your blog for you
CNET News
Because the plug-in is given privileges to write over your content it then goes back into the post and makes the edit without the administrator having to do it manually. Best of all it shows you a before and after preview of what the correction would look like so you can eyeball it without having to visit the post in full. To aid in the correction process the plug-in supports multiple administrators meaning a multi-author blog can decentralize who has to take a turn at the copy desk and can pass off the responsibility if one of the members is out of the office. The plug-in also throws in a few nice tweaks like a complete history of suggested user corrections and a summary of your blog’s accuracy rating which gets updated with each user-requested fix. GooseGrade is working on a public API so others can come in to make similar tools so expect to see similar plug-ins for other blogging platforms in the near future.
Related from Journowiki: Wikipedia considers limiting user edits
Corporate Blogs Spring Up But Effectiveness Questions Remain
CNNMoney.com
General Motors Corp. (GM) and General Electric Co. (GE) two Dow componentsunder different levels of financial duress have posted messages on theircorporate blogs in recent weeks in response to concerns about their financialperformances. GM has acknowledged on its “FastLane Blog” that even though substantial doubtssurround its viability it still believes bankruptcy isn’t the best option forits future.