Journalism, Technology, History

The void will be filled

One could quibble with Andrew Sullivan’s facts and figures and even his prediction that newspapers will nearly vanish from your hands while you’re reading their pages, but he’s got the trend line and the economic riddle mostly right, I think:...

Ink-stained wretch in search of ink-stained wretch

Seattle-based journalist Sanjay Bhatt has created “The Ink-Stained Wretches Club,” a Ning group, according to the Fitz and Jen blog on the Editor & Publisher Web site. Being an ink-stained wretch, I joined up. But that got me wondering who...

The new, new thing: White trash computing

This is an obvious growth industry for Tennessee. The governor ought to hire the Red State guys in Murfreesboro to pitch Tennessee to Microsoft.

A business model built on intransigence

A lot is being written about CNN’s intentions on being a wire service to newspapers. On Twitter yesterday, media strategist and all-around digital news pioneer Steve Yelvington said: Am I supposed to take CNN seriously as a potential newswire? It...

Aww, come on, be a friend

Be one of the first to become a “Friend of Random Mumblings.” (Google Friend Connect at work)

Things are slower in the South -- even on the Internet

PCmag gathered 200,000 speed tests from 17,000 users, coupled it with some other broadband penetration data and analyzed the numbers. They’ve mashed the data it various ways, including a ranking of states by Internet access speed. The analysis did find...

Quotable: Raw and with context

… the future of media is being split into two streams: one that consists of raw news that comes like a torrent from sources such as Twitter, mobile messages and photos, the other, from old media. The eyewitness dispatches (and...

Cranberry crunch testing and tasting

Early this morning I made some Cranberry Crunch to bring to the office (recipe below). I’m not sure where I got that recipe, but it meets my easy test. I used the results to test how well the new Nokia...
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