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 it into their new company, AVOS. News of Delicious’ shut down broke famously on the...
Designer Ron Reason, and old Poynter friend, recently posted an item on his blog about things never to say to a photojournalist. Ron and PJ Jedi Kenny Irby, in an effort to gain/earn more respect in newsrooms for editorial designers, artists, and photographers, decided to have a little fun and started asking friends and colleagues...
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 well thought out and slick and shouldn’t have had them, but I viewed them as...