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Posts from March 2008

Clifford Stoll: Full of ideas, but some were wrong

Today, via @Brad_King on Twitter I saw a link to this article published in Newsweek from 1995: The Internet? Blah! by a certain Clifford Stoll.
Now, you have to remember, this was around 13 years ago when the Internet and how it would evolve, how popular it would become, how societies attitudes would shift, etc., were [...]


Posted
27 March 2008 @ 11pm

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Media

An essay for journalism students: You don’t have to be an angry journalist

Note: I wrote this essay originally for the Innovation In College Media blog, which I occasionally contribute to. You should go check out my post and read/contribute to the discussion there.
There’s been quite a bit of negativity and despair coming from college students at AngryJournalist.com and it’s bothered me quite a bit. While I wouldn’t [...]


Muxtape.com: the mixtape meets Web 2.0

I just discovered Muxtape.com today via several people I’m following on Tumblr. You have to give it a try.
Muxtape has a lightening-fast sign-up process and it’s functionality is dirt simple to use. Upload up to 12 mp3 files (no larger than 10 mb each) and then send your friends an easy to use URL — [...]


Posted
23 March 2008 @ 11pm

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Media

How I know that print isn’t dead

Newspapers might be dying, but that doesn’t mean print is dead.
Each week, I spend between $15-25 on comic books, which range from $3-4 per issue.
Each month I probably spend $10-25 on books that probably will just sit on my shelf for years unread.
Yet, each day I refuse to spend even 25 cents [...]


Posted
23 March 2008 @ 12pm

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Media

HelpAReporter.com connects journalists to sources

I’ve already Twittered, Facebooked, and del.icio.us-ed HelpAReporter.com, but Peter Shankman has put together a really helpful Web site that could use as much attention as possible.
The site is a listing of publicists and P.R. professionals that sign up to receive queries from journalists looking for sources. It’s a simple concept that started as a Facebook [...]


Posted
13 March 2008 @ 9pm

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Blogs

More friends who blog

Once again, I find more and more of my friends blogging — some even get to do it professionally!
+ Vasanth Sridharan is currently writing for Silicon Alley Insider. Although he only started this week, he’s got quite a few interesting posts: why there won’t be a price war between the PS3 and XBOX 360, [...]


More notes on AngryJournalist.com

This week AngryJournalist.com broke the 2,000 comment barrier and has seen more than 125,000 page loads and 64,000 unique visitors. As my friend stated, the Web site has officially become of a bit of a meme. Here’s a list so far:
+ HappyJournalist.com - I thought this would happen eventually. Although, as Gawker and others have [...]