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Co-worker Lauren Spuhler blogs about a small problem she had during a video shoot. She was doing a video profile of John Grant Jr. for the monthly Songs of Appalachia video series she produces with reporter Morgan Simmons

I’ve never done any of these when Twitter is down. I guess I haven’t lived.

On Sunday, Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, and his global wireless network,FON, were featured in the business section of the New York Times. That got him musingabout the differences between old media and new media: Even though the Sunday New...

xkcd.com and its creator 23-year-old creator Randall Munroe are featured in a New York Times article today. (via popurls)

Ryan Sholin, our host for this month’s Carnival of Journalism, asked an intriguing question on Friday: “What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?” Newsrooms intrinsically abhor dropping things partly because of the “one...

Now this is really cool video. I wonder how far directly dragging video content is from general use?

Compete did an analysis of Twitter users in April. They found users tend to be Young, Male, and Twitter Addicted. Two fascinating stats: Twitter skews heavily towards the college/twenty-something crowd. Twitter attracts 18-24 year-olds at nearly twice the rate of...

For as it is written, the last shall be first and the geek shall inherit the earth. -- David Brooks in The New York Times. (via Rex Hammock)

Social media has evolved to the days when angry story subjects showed up at newspapers to take a swing at the editor. That’s actually happened once since I’ve been at the News Sentinel, but that’s a tale for another day.....