1. Newsvine.com’s “news in pictures”

Newsvine.com, one of my favorite sites to post, learn and expand on shared news and entertainment information recently added a ‘news in pictures’ section to their homepage.

While I’m all for introducing (and enticing click-thru) news stories via a photo instead of a headline, the poor choice of photos has gotten me down.

The screenshot below shows Yesterday’s (June 28, 2007) ‘news in pictures’ default display, with two of the photos in the slideshow being obscure references to some cat-based story*. Again, showing photos in place of news headlines in order to increase click-thru is a great idea, but seriously, can the cat photos be considered ‘news?’

It appears the photos are loaded from some AP/Wire service, and the choice of which are added to the homepage must be limited.

2. Mint vs. Google Analytics.

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I was going to write a post about Mint vs. Google Analytics, but it appears that David Seah has done a great job doing just that.

3. Dealing with clients as a freelancer - the most valuable guide I’ve found to-date.

FreelanceSwitch: 12 breeds of client and how to deal with them.

So Justine is still working (for the next few weeks at least) as a freelancer. While I envy her freedoms, I don’t envy her relationships. Thankfully, Justine has scored some dream clients, far from those mentioned on the linked post. Still, I’m glad that someone put together a ‘most-common’ attributes list of freelance client-types. I can’t tell you how valuable I’ve found this list already - and I am barely working freelance on the side!

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