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Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.
For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]
The gradual rehab of Contentious continues. Now existing links to my archives, which were created on an older blogging system, are working again. That’s a relief! Thanks to Justin Crawford and Tom Vilot for all their help with this project.
Halloween morning, Justin Crawford and I will be leading a discussion with journalism grad students at the University of Colorado. The topic we were given is rather amorphous: "blogging and citizen journalism."
Well the good thing about an amorphous assignment is that I can make of it pretty much what I choose. So that’s exactly what [...]
As much as I adore conversational media, I like face-to-face conversations even more. I know there are lots of bloggers in the Boulder-Denver (CO) area, but we never seem to get together much. I’d love to meet some of these people.
So this weekend I decided to do something about it. I signed up as a [...]
It’s been a while since I mentioned the whole nongeeky-nickname-for-RSS flap. It’s not dead yet! Here’s the latest salvo.
In his June 23 New York Times piece, “What’s in a Product Name?” columnist David Pogue observed: “Some good technologies don’t even stand for something that people can agree on. RSS is a terrible name for a great technology; it can stand for either Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, and neither really tells you that it means subscribing to a Web site so you don’t have to check it for updates.” This wasn’t the last word on the matter…
I’ve been reading, and regularly commenting on, the new Business Week blog “Blogspotting”, by Stephen Baker and Heather Green. So far, it’s pretty interesting. Yesterday, Baker posted this short item: “Mainstream press barely mentions blogs.” Here, he notices one aspect of the same blind spot I’ve been seeing. Mainstream media (MSM) professionals generally seem unaware of blogs — or their knowledge extends only to limited, uninformed cliches. Why this profound lack of curiousity? I took a stab at the bigger picture in the following comment…
I was so happy this morning to read in the news, and then on NASA’s site, that the European Space Agency probe Huygens has landed on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. Wow! About an hour from the time I’m writing this, ESA should start receiving data from Huygens via the Cassini probe, which is orbiting Saturn. Talk about a long-distance call…
Just for fun, here is some miscellaneous cool weird stuff that’s caught my interest lately… TOP OF THIS LIST: Letters from Bad Santa. Do you know someone who deserves coal this year? There’s still time! Getting a bad Santa letter sent to your personal nemesis costs $2.95, but you can read the letter templates for free — and they’re hilarious! Check it out today. (Thanks to Chris White for this link.) Read the rest of this list…
Another roundup of interesting podcasting tidbits that caught my attention over the last month. TOP OF THIS LIST: “Post details: pseudo podcasting, by DJ Chuang, Nov. 19. This frank, detailed article cuts through the hype of podcasting. As I’m discovering, this new medium is actually a fairly complex undertaking. Podcasting combines many technologies and skills, so just about any would-be podcaster should expect to navigate some kind of significant learning curve. Chuang offers advice for novices based on his experience, and also compares text blogging to podcasting. Well done! Thanks! (Read the rest of this list…)
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