Missed this yesterday. It was company namesake Edward Wyllis Scripps’ birth date (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926). I often wonder what creativity and daring the entrepreneurial newspaper barons of the early 20th century would have brought to the...
Angela Grant has it right. I think a “newscast” on the Internet is the inappropriate repurposing of TV to the Web. If I want to view a string of videos, I want them to be of my choosing. Produce enough...
Karen Knotts, one of the Book Bandits, has posted a Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya recipe that sounds right tasty. She says it came from a “gazillion-year-old Southern Living magazine” and doesn’t have anything to do with books at all, except:...
Between vacation and some work projects, I’ve slowed down, but I’m continuing. This is for last week (week ending June 10). Did some jogging on a wonderful bike trail in Westerville, Ohio. And I also noticed the L.A. Time history...
2007 is the year the facsimile machine died? Not everyone agrees. I still have a fax machine on my desk, but it startled me when it rang the other day. I do have some regular junk faxers, which like cockroaches,...
John Battelle takes a break from covering search engines and is on a road trip to Bonnaroo. He posted on Memphis and a trek to the North Mississippi haunts of the blues Dickenson brothers and the festival in Manchester. Just...
Newscoma has pointed out a fascinating autobiography. Tags: Newscoma
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Jay Small, fellow Scripps interactive media colleague, said the other day he’s going to start writing and opining more on his site when he gives up being an expert. That’s good news because he always has some expert things to...
An interesting eye track side study by Nora Paul and Laura Ruel looks at what navigation methods users chose when viewing a photo slide show using a Washington Post slide show that used several navigation types. Here’s which ones people...
Steve Rubel is drawing on a number of sources to come up with a solution to “always on” that allows him to be productive. The underpinning of all the ideas is that we’re dealing with too much information, disruptions, meetings,...