By Mindy McAdams
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Awesome post from Melissa Worden:
Looking from the outside in
She explains how she consumes and follows news now that she is no longer a working journalist. She is still a news junkie, obviously — but one who never reads a printed newspaper. And she’s clearly online-savvy.
I subscribe to news Twitter accounts. CNN posts breaking news tweets, [...]
Final grades are due this week, commencement will be held this coming weekend, and I’m about to go to Southeast Asia for two months.
Posts to this blog, therefore, are likely to be few and far between until late in June.
While I’m abroad, I’ll be keeping a trip blog here: Trip Log: SE Asia.
Feel free to [...]
Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, was answering readers’ questions online for the past five days.
What he looks for when hiring a new employee:
[A]n ideal applicant would have very strong traditional graphic design skills; in-depth training in usability and interaction design; practical experience coding XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash; a commercially viable comfort level with [...]
I don’t know what inspired the clever folks at the Las Vegas Sun to concoct this, but it is great fun for a frequent flyer such as I:
Flight Delay Calculator
See what bad records some airports have for delayed flights — all over the United States. Look up your most hated airline (tough choice!) or how [...]
I was recently reminded that not every person who uses a computer every day understands the instruction “Minimize that window.”
I watched someone hesitate for a really long time after I said that. Eventually I realized that I had to tell him how to do it, and even what it meant.
Now, don’t get all highfalutin and [...]
Student and journalist Jared Silfies dumped out his backpack and showed us the things he carries for mobile reporting.
I love his photo! I would enjoy seeing more like it. What do you say — can you post a picture for us, and give us a gear list? Just post it to Flickr if you don’t [...]
With 75 percent of all adult Americans using a mobile phone or PDA, journalists need to start thinking about what people do with those gadgets — and how it relates to distributing the products of journalism.
In addition to making voice phone calls, mobile users are texting, e-mailing, sending instant messages; taking pictures; looking for maps [...]
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