Journalism, Technology, History

The 11 p.m. email in disguise

Here’s how to create “face time” for Web workers. Hey, the comment thread is great, too. Was I just workstreaming? Tags: web workers productivity

Innovation lies in yonder Mountain Dew

You might not have seen this. Bryan Murley has a new interview with online pioneer and “Hyper-Local Hero” Rob Curley. Bryan Murley is online news adviser and on the faculty of the Mass Communication Department at Emory & Henry College...

Inky-fingered and unbowed

An inky-fingered print journalist to multimedia contender weighs in. Just discovered a new blog from Ian Reeves called Streaming Blue Murder, subtitled “Old journalism dog. New video tricks.” Looks it’s going to ba a good one! But does “streaming blue...

High school hoopla

This is definitely good news. I’m sure a lot of state high school athletic associations would like to see this happen. And if one state association made it stick, others would follow. At the college level, you alerady have the...

Get me a screen shot of that site

I was googling around today for a utility to make Web screen shots for a project I’m currently working on and stumbled across Nathan Moinvaziri’s wonderful WebShot (for Win XP). The latest version is 1.31 and it came out on...

Little Quigo gets noticed

Way back in May, I wrote about Quigo. Now I see the New York Times is. About time! John Battelle, Greg Sterling and others are noting that Quigo seems to have forced some changes at Google. Interesting … Tags: adsense...

Yeah, you'll check

Just for fun, see what the Social Meter score is your blog/Web site. This site runs out and scans varioius sites (Technorati, Google, Bloglines, Yahoo’s MyWeb, etc.) to see how popular they are. (via Social Media) Tags: viral linking reputation...

Wonderful Sunday for a jog

Great day in Knoxville Sunday. Sunny, windy and warm (in the mid-60s). Went jogging at my favorite greenway and did 7.75 miles in 1:20:48 (156 average heart rate bpm). Yep, that’s Slowsky; I usually don’t jog/walk that long – or...

No one said culture change was uplifting

More on newsroom transformation, this one Steve Yelvington, who asks: “When do we become the roadblock?” This one is not a high-level shifting of the trends discussion, but about the often very painful decisions that have to be made while...

Are the wires dead meat?

It wouldn’t be news to say Jeff Jarvis is one of the most interesting people talking – and writing – about media. Last week he proposed a new rule for newspapers: “Cover what you do best. Link to the rest.”...
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