Category Archives: help neededI love iCal, but it’s driving me crazy lately. Help!
As you might have guessed, I’m a pretty busy person. If I didn’t have a good electronic calendar program, with alerts and reliable backup, I’d be totally lost. That’s why I’ve been a devoted user of Apple’s iCal program for about 10 years.
A few months ago, [...]
As I mentioned earlier, it appears a spammer has hacked this blog again. This time they were especially sneaky about it. You won’t see the spam when you visit my blog, or when you get my feed or e-mail alerts. But search engines see it, and display it in my search engine results. Which can [...]
MSNlive
Despite what MSN’s search engine thinks, I am NOT hawking drugs on this site…
(UPDATE: Since initially posting this, I’ve learned a bit more. The plot thickens…)
My friend the SEO maven Brett Borders just alerted me to some disturbing news. Apparently, Microsoft’s search engine thinks this blog, which I’ve run since 1998, is drug spam.
Brett got [...]
ePodunk.com
Even a very simple interactive map can tell a powerful news story.
Tomorrow I’m being interviewed by Adena Schutzberg for the Directions on the News podcast, which I’ve mentioned before on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. We’ll discuss some of our favorite news maps and why they’re cool, engaging, and useful.
I need your help: What are some of [...]
RabbleRadio, via Flickr (CC license)
Prudishness and journalism were never a good mix.
Today I started pulling together a bunch of stray threads that have been nagging at me for some time. Anyone who reads my work knows that I have longstanding admiration for quality journalism — and growing frustration with the culture and attitudes of professional [...]
Hey, VOIPyourlife: I’m not smiling…
A couple of months ago I signed up for an internet-based (VOIP) phone service called VOIPyourlife. I’d growing increasingly dissatisfied with the high cost and lack of key features from my landline provider.
There are several things I like about VOIPyourlife — a good web-based interface for configuring the features on my [...]
Snitter (top) and Spaz (bottom): Two AIR-based apps for using Twitter that I’m trying out.
While I was “Twittercasting” (part of my ever-expanding online media vocabulary) the Total Community Coverage in Cyberspace seminar in Los Angeles a few days ago, I found myself repeatedly tripped up and annoyed by the Twitter.com posting interface.
As I mentioned earlier, [...]
Amy Gahran
Barcelona was fabulous, especially the living statues. Now it’s back to real life. (Cringe!)
I’ve just returned from a 2-week trip that mixed business, vacation, and family. It was quite a whirlwind, but it was also fun, exciting, and important in many ways. While I was gone I was able to keep E-Media Tidbits going, [...]
My trusty Tracfone just ain’t cutting it…
It’s getting embarrassing. Mobile content is increasingly part of what I cover in my media consulting work and blogging, yet I have the most bare-bones, behind-the-times cell phone imaginable. It’s an ultra-basic Nokia, and my carrier is the pre-paid service Tracfone. No web browser, and not much else. Currently [...]
San Diego Supercomputer Services
One way to envision dark matter; sci fi stories are another.
This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but I’m a major science fiction junkie. I always have been. Forget space operas and epic Arthurian fantasies cloaked in spacesuits — I want the hardcore sci-fi. Where the science or speculative reality [...]
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