Things Journo Grads Should Do
Start a blog, take some pictures, create an amazing video. Congrats on graduating. Now get to work.
Semantics Matter. On the Social Web, Stop Calling Us Consumers.
If Twitter is chattered conversation you need to treat it as such. If you approached a social gathering like a party and said, how am I going to use this situation, and worse, articulated it and acted like it, you’d come off as abrasive and crude.
The Year the Media Died: Mad Mad Avenue Blues
A new parody to sung to the theme of American Pie takes down the media industry.
Codes and Tubes
I’ll be teaching at Columbia this fall and am considering what the Web site will be for the course. Drupal, Elgg, BuddyPress, Pligg? They’re all good. Not quite sure what I’ll choose but here are some of the ideas we’ll be talking about.
Playing with Toys - Issuu
Reviewing the PDF reader Issuu and seeing what it can do.
Is Google News Getting more Googley?
Google launches a Digg-like iGoogle gadget and the Interweb rumor mill has it that they’ll soon update their news site with something more “intelligent.” What gives?
Who’s Following You?
Google tells publishers to update privacy policies they have with their viewers. Their behavioral tracking just went to 11.
Hello World: The Internet Turns 20
Twenty years ago today Tim Berners-Lee proposed linking text together on the Internet and the Web was born.
Promise and Hope Internship
We’re gearing up for a summer of healthcare reporting on Healthcare IT and looking for interns to help us out.
Fail Proof Anti-Terrorism Measure: Make it Blurry
A California lawmaker puts on his thinking cap and comes up with a bold idea: force satellite image makers to blur soft targets so the evil doers don’t know where they are.
