Tristan Louis has written a provocative piece about how social networks and apps are strangling the thing that makes the Internet great: openness. I recommend you read the whole thing for an interesting piece with concrete suggestions for ways to maybe revive the wide-open Internet. (via ReadWriteWeb)
This month’s prompt for the Carnival of Journalism comes from Steve Outing: “What emerging technology or digital trend do you think will have a significant impact on journalism in the year or two ahead? And how do you see it playing out in terms of application by journalists, and impact?” I will take the contrarian…
For the second week in a row, i am on the road. This time to Chicago and the Illinois College Press Association convention. Along with the conference, our department is having an alumni gathering. Hope to get some photos along the way.
Today I marked every last item in my Google Reader account as read. Well over 500 of them I hadn’t read at all. I also unsubscribed to several blog feeds that I wasn’t reading anymore anyway. I’m sure the queue will fill up again by Monday, but it felt good for a while to flush…
Well, that didn’t work so well. Today is Internet protest SOPA/PIPA day. You can read about the blackouts happening around the Internet in a variety of places I’ve linked to at the bottom of this post. Related articles SOPA blackout shows little hope of peace with Hollywood (latimesblogs.latimes.com) Internet Blackout of the Day (thedailywh.at)…
I’ve been remiss in blogging here of late, and I’m hoping for a bit of a kick in the pants to get things moving again, so I’m going to try this “Project 365″ thing suggested by the bloggers at WordPress.com (see here and here for an explanation). Will it work? Well, I’m already 11 days…
As Twitter has grown as a platform for passing along bits of news, I’ve noticed trends in the way organizations handle information. Here’s one thing I find annoying: the attribution of original sources. Here’s just one example: I saw this tweet from @mediaite The link leads to this story by James Crugnale. At the bottom…
photo by Flickr user Zoriah. Use permitted under Creative Commons license. Click to see more images from this photographer. This month’s Carnival of Journalism takes us on a tour of a truly frightful house of promise and peril: the world of new gadgets and software tools. To refresh your memory, the prompt for this month…
The past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to learn a new way of typing using the Dvorak keyboarding method. The Dvorak keyboard was developed in the middle of the 20th century to replace the QWERTY keyboard, which was originally designed in the late 19th century to slow down typists. It is very easy to…
