Journalism, Technology, History

How to use earphones in less than 40 pages

I know the Apple fanboys will pout; those that rave about the Apple packaging experience, but I call a 40-page manual in a box of iPod earphones excessive. Count’ em. The short version: Put the pointy end in your iPod...

Flowers on screen

If you’re into daylilies or just beautiful flowers, here’s something FREE for spring. Noticed in a Saturday email newsletter (that I just got around to reading this morning) that Ken Oaks at Oakes Daylilies in Corryton has a free daylily...

Sounds tops to me

Oh yeah! Random Mumblings has been added to the journalism section of Web startup aggregator alltop. Hanging with some of my favs in the journalism area. Alltop is a project of Nononina, Inc., which does another site I like, Truemors....

Twitter newspapers

Erica Smith at graphicdesignr has the most complete list of newspapers on Twitter that I’ve seen complete with metrics on “followers” and recent growth. Several newspapers have multiple Twitter accounts. Great resource!

Mesmerized by creepy girl

What’s up with everyone linking to the woman here. Most people are calling her “creepy girl.” Weird, but here I am linking to her, too. Go figure.

My reading list for journalism grads

I’m on a panel at the University of Tennessee’s “Public Conversation on Web Journalism” that is to discuss careers in Web journalism at the Beck Cultural Center on campus at 11 a.m. Here’s the lineup: Panel 2 (11 a.m.) (Host:...

Magic formula for citizen journalism remains elusive

John Ndege blogs the demise of his London-based ScribbleSheet citizen journalism site, which launched last September, in a post titled “The Problem with Citizen Journalism.”. Ndege has some observations. Among them, he thinks NowPublic may have a potentially sucessful model,...
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