For Earth Day: The End of the World Flash Cartoon
The End of the World | Flash Videos. An oldie but a goodie. Happy Earth Day, all.
America's Newest Profession: Blogging – Mark Penn, WSJ.com – WSJ.com
In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters. Paid bloggers fit just about every definition of a microtrend: Their ranks have grown dramatically over the [...]
Almost 1 in 10 Young Video Game Users 'Addicted'
Experts don’t agree on whether such a thing as “video game addiction” really exists. At present, it is not listed as a mental disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The next update of that manual, which describes criteria for diagnosing various psychiatric disorders, is due out in 2012. [...]
Oracle To Buy Sun (and MySQL) For $7.4 Billion.
eeeeek – shudders at the prospect of mysql in the hands of the oracle licensing people - note to self. must start working with postgres more. Updated: Less than a month after it walked away form a $7 billion deal with IBM, Sun Microsystems says that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with [...]
The high costs of running YouTube. – Slate Magazine
The high costs of running YouTube. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine. i’m seeing a lot of talk around video and user generated content. the IT guy in me has always seen the problems with this strategy. bandwidth and hosting space do not grow on trees.
2009 Webby nominees posted
Webby Nominees. Features the obvious and not so obvious. Quite a few friends listed, congratulations to all.
"He said, she said" Reporting Mangles Climate Economics Story – Blogs & Podcasts – Environmental Defense Fund
Climate 411 » “He said, she said” Reporting Mangles Climate Economics Story – Blogs & Podcasts – Environmental Defense Fund. excellent post on an excellent study. i’ve talked about this problem on this issue for years. always nice to find something that validates the rants.
Visual storytelling tips from mindy
Teaching Online Journalism » Visual storytelling tips. Storyboard And Photography View more presentations from Vadim Isakov.
Visa Introduces a Credit Card on a Phone – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Visa Introduces a Credit Card on a Phone – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers – NYTimes.com
The news business “is in a difficult time period right now, between what was and what will be,” said Gary Kebbel, the journalism program director for the Knight Foundation, which has backed 35 local Web experiments. “Our democracy is based upon geography, and we believe local information is such a core need for our democracy [...]