You could say that the president’s State of the Union address each year is like the Super Bowl of web journalism. If you won’t say it, I will. It’s a single manageable time of immense importance and scrutiny and every news org is experimenting to take…
Reader Guide: The NBA lockout is over, but its economic impact still ripple
The National Basketball Association lockout is over, and what may seem like a run of the mill sports story of high stakes brinkmanship is actually akin to a natural disaster sending economic impacts throughout local economies across the US.
At…
Delicious Saved from Sunset by YouTube Founders
A couple of months ago the future of social bookmarking pioneer Delicious (or Del.icio.us for you purist) looked bleak.
Today, the service was sold to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen for an undisclosed sum. The pair will fold…
Mythbusted: re35 digital “film” won’t bring back your F2
Sad but true. The “OMG I’m not a gear head but I want this gadget” that we all lusted after last week was indeed, too good to be true.
I ignored the numerous grammar and spelling errors. The site was…
Why the NTYs pay wall is a good thing, but won’t work
If you’re a news junkie, use Twitter or have somehow landed on this website, you’ve no doubt already heard about the New York Times pay wall finally coming online.
Months of planing, fixing glitches around the clock to the last…
The promising, the inspirational and the dumb@$$
The promising NPR.com is undergoing a redesign. A very clean design with simple navigation, lots of white space and tons of information without the need to scroll or click through. Plus customization like picking your local station helps to really…
Rocky Mountain News stops the presses
Today the last issue of the Rocky came off the presses and as the ink dried on the page, the last truck left the facilities and the newsroom doors close, it marks the end of another great photo paper.
We’ve…
Dith Pran dies, 65
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.
Dith died…
...The Obama campaign goes pop culture
In a (not so) odd (if you really think about it) nod to Americana, Obama goes for the techie vote with this clever (plagiarized?) champaign ad.
I can’t imagine what Apple would say, I guess it’s nice that she’s…
Oakland Tribune puts a face on homicide
In 5 yrs. 557 families. A record high 148 lives in 2006.
Homicide and Oakland, in the Bay Area you can’t have a conversation about one without someone bringing the topic to the other, but maybe...
I will gladly speak today so that I may complain next Tuesday
Today is an important day… no, relax this isn‘t another column on why you should vote… ok so today is an important day, today is your chance to voice your opinion and have a say in how things work, are…
AIRing it all out
PBS launches a new journalistically inclined series that adds to their already impressive roster. The weekly half-hour program chronicles contemporary investigative journalism making headlines.
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If you don’t suck at first, you’re not doing it right
Let me preface this post by saying that Louis CK inspired today’s musings. Why is that pertinent, it’s not really, but I’m not so secretly hoping he’ll google himself and end up here and then we’ll go down to the…
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Making paper while filling papers #Jcarn
Once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn.
The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their…