There’s a lot to be learned about storytelling from Al Tompkins’s tribute column about Ken Speake, a reporter for 28 years at KARE TV in Minnesota. Al has meticulously linked a whole course worth of video stories reported by Speake. While you have to sit through the cumbersome shuffling of windows at the KARE Web [...]
Interesting commentary on this IBM report about the “media divide” at MetaMedia, the media blog of the International Herald Tribune: IHT’s Eric Pfanner writes: Yikes. “Content hyper syndication”? “new platform aggregation”? I wish I knew what that means. As for the content vs. distribution battle, I think the research I recently did on Schibsted, the [...]
I came across this article via a new journalism wiki: Tanya Sharma had scored 93.5 per cent in her The Indian School Certificate exams. So, when she opted to study journalism at the University of Florida her family and friends were aghast. They expected her to head directly to one of the prestigious IITs (Indian [...]
Just found this — a really nice collection of stories from Will Yurman of The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, from October 2006: My Body Myself First, the subject matter is stuff women think about all the time, starting at an early age. The audio interviews are great, well edited, and just so personal … [...]
This post is an answer to all those students who whine about testing CSS (and Web design in general) in multiple Web browsers. To save time, they would like to simply design for their own browser and their own computer monitor. Ha, as if that would work! So you don’t need to put on your [...]
I think that it’s a bit harder to start from scratch at WordPress.com than it is at Blogger. The folks at Blogger have really simplified the startup process down to the bare basics.
I have watched this video from the Toronto Star four times in a row now, so I guess I’d better post it! “I wanted to play hockey, really, but my mother told me to try figure skating … I never left figure skating because I loved it so much.”– Patrick Chan, Olympic hopeful Sports shooters [...]