This week from @NiemanLab in #media & #journalism

In a rush to maintain profits, newspapers are abandoning the art of customer service. Not what you expected for #nablopomo Day 16 was it? I still have Days 8 and 9 to post.

Let me catch up with the other blog posts while I'm here:  philanthropirates & education—déjà vu all over again; Stephen Downes' OLWeekly; Teacher Wage Theft: Active and Retired Teachers Are Being Victimized by Billionaires; Call It What it Is: Predatory Reform. Tonight's Sunday (or tomorrow morning's) movie will post here tomorrow

Saturday, November 15, 2014

In a rush to maintain profits, newspapers are abandoning the art of customer service The chase for short-term gain is undercutting local papers' long-term position in the community — the one asset national outlets and tech companies can't match, argues a former editor at Digital First Media. By Matt DeRienzo.

The newsonomics of Talking Points Memo's native advertising shift The liberal political site is betting on something less commodified than banner advertising to find sustainable revenue — and to better take advantage of its unique audience. By Ken Doctor.

Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone, Day 11 #nablopomo

Yes, still connected. I'll pass on listing anything for "this day in history" but provide the link in case you want check it for yourself

Two CWL back posts down, two more to go. I'll get out a precarious faculty video (Chomsky on higher education double header) post this evening but may not make it back here to embed the link.

Blogged Today (in addition to this post)

Dispatch from the #WriMo Zone, Day 10 #nablopomo

So what happened to Days 6-9? Off-line. My disconnected days went from midday Thursday until 7 am this morning. No internet, no telephone. There went the November BlogHer challenge. Sort of.

I wrote a Thursday post offline and kept on writing. For myself. So I'm going to post them too, appropriately titled and backdated for the days I wrote them. That's my plan. I'll turn off the the post to G+ setting though so as not to confuse the stream.

I stayed on track with NaNoWriMo too. Obviously, DigiWriMo went out the window, but with its more flexible structure, who knows?

#NaBloPoMo workaround list: my Nov 1 blog posts

For I am not quite sure what reason, I have answered the November BlogHer daily blog post challenge even though I already signed on for both #DigiWriMo and NaNoWriMo. What was I thinking? For starters, I already blog just about everyday, some days more than one post. 

The rub is that, although I can register multiple blogs, the daily challenge posts have to be on the same blog. This workaround, as explained on NaBloPoMo Guide (unofficial)'s handy FAQ:

How can I have posts from different blogs count towards the full month's total?

To be eligible for prizes (during a month when prizes are awarded), BlogHer's judges need to see all your daily posts in one place. If you're blogging at different blogs each day, consider cross posting your daily posts (or snippets of them with links to the full posts) at a separate blog that you create specifically for NaBloPoMo.

Today I blogged:

• November…month of #writing—#edblogs…#digiwrimo…#nanowrimo & more - precarious faculty, 11/1/2014 (Blogger)
• Education Bloggers Network Supporting the Public Schools -  As the Adjunctiverse Turns, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• #Education must be protected from the forces of #privatization says UN #humanrights expert -  As the Adjunctiverse Turns, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• NaNoWriMo: Classic Novels Written in a Month - Vanessa's Blogueria, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• and, of course, this post...to get counted.

Plus several posts on A is for Adjunct, which shouldn't and probably doesn't count as a blog anymore than the usual social media would. I'd been thinking about about doing this anyway ~ "this" being a daily blogging/social re-cap post somewhere. "Best" design would be to follow +Laura Gibbs' model and pony up for a paid +Inoreader account with more features, I can just use clips ~ one set for me and another (others) for the blogrolls and social media streams.