Journalism, Technology, History

Going over the wall for success

Tags: NASCAR East Carolina ECU A little late on this one, but as an East Carolina alum it’s nice to see former ECU linebacker Jeff Kerr is doing well in NASCAR He is jackman for Martin Truex’s Nextel Cup team....

Scrippsnews goes into live beta

Tags: Blogosphere News Media Tagging Scripps Howard News Service is giving it’s new “for the public” Web site a higher profile. According to the site, Scrippsnews.com has moved into the “live beta” stage. We added a link to it at...

Gimme that broadband

Tags: Broadband New Media Media Technology The Pew Internet & American Life folks released late last week their latest Broadband survey and it’s got some really interesting findings. The headline: Broadband adoption grew by 40 percent in the past year...

Costs of Free-dom

Tags: Marketing Marketer Seth Godin wonders if one of the downsides of “free” as a business model is the “freeloader problem” wherein free “isn’t just an inducement to pay attention, but is, in fact, a right.” In converting our University...

Rainwater Ramsey Tales

Rainwater Ramsey gravesite. Image via finadagrave.com and added by Roger Roop in 2007. Faded memories, stories that changed with the tellers . . . or just crumbled over time. I got a letter today from my mother with a clipping...

Google video gets smarter

I haven’t noticed mentions of this, but Google Video has gotten a lot smarter. People have been noting Google’s announcement this week of “instant availability’ and elimination of the need to use the separate “uploadier” program. Both of these are...

TV is becoming its own sitcom

When asked to name the top four TV networks, 4 out of every 5 people ages 16-18 could not name all four of the networks …. 1 out of every 3 people under 34 could not name ANY of these...

Newsbank and iCopyright

Got a copy of a news release this morning that Newsbank and iCopyright have cut a deal whereby Newsbank will be added iCopyright’s copyright licensing technology into its database. That’s good news. We already use both! Our data was tagged...

Getting spiked

I find it interesting how news Web sites differ. Maybe I’m over easily enthralled by charts. Who knows. The daily traffic of most news sites depends on the day of the week and whether there is a big story. A...
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