Journalism, Technology, History

Vitamins for your Twitter feed

Carolina Middlebrook on growing you Twitter audience. Could use this as a to-do checklist. Follow my Tweets.

Halloween nights

See some more of my 2007 Halloween photos at flickr. This pumpkin was carved by Amy. Some people have had a hard time seeing the design. Do you see it?

Like in the movies, good guys win in the end

An update on the Oct. 4, 2007, posting about YouTube pulling a video of knoxnews that was flagged by 20th Century Fox for copyright infringement. The video above of the Reno 911! guys was shot by our TV critic Terry...

RSS feeds get less geeky; more cheeky

The UK’s  Daily Star is promoting its RSS feeds with the photo at right. No wonder U.S. newspapers are considered dull. Subscribe to this blog feed. (via Martin Stabe / Daily Star photo)

BYOMD

Bryan Murley recorded a brief audio clip of New Media journalism’s Billy Sunday at a tent revival in DC. What? Well, it’s really the Washington Post’s Rob Curley at the CMA/ACP National College Media Convention. But there’s not a more...

Appreciating community

Think the social nature of the Internet is just for 18-to-34 years olds – or younger? Think community is your neighborhood? Think everything online happens in the highly wired, tech meccas?

When the team goes to the pits

Question: Does a team fall apart from the stress of things not going well or do things begin to not go well when the team falls to work together? For those who aren’t NASCAR followers, this is a photo of...

Al Gore will change your life

OK, so Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet (single-handily), but he did make global warming a movie and he has now re-defined TV. And TIpper cleaned up the record industry. That dynamite group gave the prize to the wrong couple;...

Benchmarking video efforts

Andy Dickinson has done an analysis of a video survey he did among newspapers. Among the highlights: The average length for video is between 2 -3 minutes The average production time is between 2 -4 hours The most common camera...
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