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sheaman42

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Shea is a 31 year old guy from Portland, Maine, USA

I cover green politics, renewable energy, and climate change for MNN.com, play a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, and love living a greener small city life in Portland, Maine.

  • Featured Properties | Simple Earth Media

    Rated Nov 09 • 5 reviews • environment, media, green, green blogs, blogging • simpleearthmedia.com

    Check out the new green media company started by my pals Adam Shake and Sean Daily. This kicks mucho ass.
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    Featured Properties | Simple Earth Media

  • d-man413s blog - StumbleUpon

    Rated Oct 13 • 51 reviews • stumblers, environment, blogger, blogging, green • stumbleupon.com

    Derek is a great green blogger and stumbler. I'm a big fan.
    905 views
    d-man413s blog - StumbleUpon

  • Monetizing Speed: AP May Charge for 30 Min Lead

    Rated Oct 07 • 1 review • internet, journalism, news, blogging, ap • readwriteweb.com

    The AP is still fucking clueless.
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    Monetizing Speed: AP May Charge for 30 Min Lead

  • CNN Launches A La Carte Wire Service At $199 Per Story

    Rated Sep 16 • 2 reviews • journalism, blogger, blogging, cnn • businessinsider.com

    From the page: "CNN yesterday launched an "à la carte" wire service which allows journalists, publishers and media organizations to buy individual CNN Wire stories for single use."
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    CNN Launches A La Carte Wire Service At $199 Per Story

  • Holes In The Mainstream Media Wall

    Rated Jul 28 • 1 review • internet, media, blogging • feld.com

    From the page: "Iâ€ve always hated walled gardens. Before I started blogging in 2004, I had a point of view that was driven from my desire to share interesting information with my friends and colleagues. Since Iâ€m a big reader, I run across a lot of stuff and have always enjoyed sharing, going back to the late 1980â€s when I used to cut articles out of magazines and mail them to people.

    When I started blogging, I gained an entirely new perspective. As a writer, I was proud when people referenced things I wrote. I loved the debate and discussion around topics that were controversial. Iâ€ve always been comfortable expressing my opinion and having people express a different opinion, as I almost always learn something as long as there is a real discussion.

    Over the weekend, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Why Comments Matter. Fred and I had a discussion about comments several years ago shortly after Intense Debate and Disqus appeared on the scene. Fred went on to invest in Disqus (WordPress acquired Intense Debate) and Fred has demonstrated that heâ€s a master at building a community that really engages with his blog (167 comments so far on Why Comments Matter â€" a little recursive, but proves the point.) Fred ends his post (well worth reading) with:"
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    Holes In The Mainstream Media Wall

  • http://imgur.com/gQouk.jpg

    Rated Jun 21 • 27 reviews • blogs, journalism, design, media, blogging • imgur.com

    Well played.
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    http://imgur.com/gQouk.jpg

  • Savvy politicos court Bay Area bloggers

    Rated Apr 05 2009 • 1 review • politics, blogs, blogging • sfgate.com

    Dennis Herrera is running for re-election as San Francisco's city attorney and loudly rumored to be eyeing the mayor's office down the road. So a few weeks ago, he invited about a dozen influential folks to a local restaurant for drinks (on his campaign's tab) and some face time. Those folks were local bloggers.

    Their questions didn't rock him on his heels initially. Instead, Herrera was quizzed about his favorite movie trilogy ("The Godfather") and what he'd write on a cardboard sign if he were homeless ("Wanna have fun?"). Soon the crowd turned serious and interrogated him about more typical topics, such as his shepherding of the same-sex marriage cause.

    Herrera is one of a handful of forward-thinking local politicians - such as San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, a candidate for state attorney general; East Bay congressional candidate Adriel Hampton; and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough - who are reaching out to bloggers as if they were another constituent group.
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    Savvy politicos court Bay Area bloggers

  • The Blackboard Blogger of Africa - Neatorama

    Rated Mar 23 2009 • 4 reviews • africa, news, blogger, blogging • neatorama.com

    Alfred Sirleaf is a blogger. Not just any blogger - no sir, Alfred is an analog blogger. He runs the "Daily News," a news hut in the middle of Monrovia, the capital of a Liberia, a country on the west coast of Africa. The lack of electricity doesn't even faze him:

    Alfred serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that simple is often better, just because it works. The lack of electricity never throws him off. The lack of funding means he's creative in ways that he recruits people from around the city and country to report news to him. He uses his cell phone as the major point of connection between him and the 10,000 (he says) that read his blackboard daily.

    Not all Liberians who read his news are literate, so he makes use of symbols. Whether it's a UN or military helmet, a poster of a soccer player or a bottle of colored water to denote gas prices, he is determined to get the message out in any way that he can.
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    The Blackboard Blogger of Africa - Neatorama

  • It's the Quality, Stupid! - by muhammad saleem -...

    Rated Sep 25 2008 • 3 reviews • blogs, blogging, muhammad saleem • muhammadsaleem.com

    From the page: "Erick Schonfeldâ€s discussion of Technoratiâ€s State of the Blogosphere said something quite alarming,

    Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the number of recent links to your blog). The majority of the Top 100 blogs tracked by Technorati post five or more times per day, and a full 43 percent post more than 10 times per day. Meanwhile, 64 percent of the 5,000 blogs ranked lower than 600 post two to four times a day, which is still a serious commitment.

    The way I think about it, there are two paths you can take:

    1. The quantity game: Write a lot of posts and hope that something sticks.
    2. The quality game: Understand your audience, put thought and effort into what you write, and spend the rest of your energy promoting the content.

    You may call it linkbaiting, I call it value blogging. What game do you play?"
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    It's the Quality, Stupid! - by muhammad saleem - social media maven

  • http://performancing.com/exclusive-b5-media-about-face-ma...

    Rated Sep 14 2008 • 1 review • internet, blogs, media, blogging, b5 • performancing.com

    From the page: "Performancing has verified reports with multiple sources that there is rapidly increasing tension between b5 media's management and its bloggers. As more details emerge, we will bring them to you here.

    Two months ago b5 cut over 80 blogs from its networks citing poor performance. Now there appears to be dissension among the ranks as people in the know are reporting the likelihood of a major pay cut coming for almost all b5 bloggers.

    As this news spreads, weâ€re hearing reports of a planned mass exodus coming up among b5Media editors and bloggers which will only get worse once news goes fully public.

    Weâ€ll keep you posted as we learn more. Pretty ironic when you consider b5â€s very public plea to save KnowMoreMedia a couple of months back. The real question: Who will save b5?"
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    http://performancing.com/exclusive-b5-media-about-face-mass-exodus-bloggers