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A Car, A Washer/Dryer, and Air Conditioning
No, this isn’t a Johnny Carson Carnac skit. And yes, I’m old enough to remember Carnac, even though I didn’t get it. These are the first three items that are considered to be necessities by Pew Research Center. You know what that means–it’s just a matter of time before everyone has a “right” to these [...]
Check Out This Cool School Project
Dan over at Backroads Newsroom is hosting a cool project for some high school seniors going to the Inauguration. They’re updating details of their trip on Twitter, Flickr, Twitpic,etc. and he’s aggregating the updates. Very cool use of technology and journalism going on as these students document their trip to DC for their community. I’m [...]
Blog Commenters UNITE!
The announcement of this new left-leaning blog made me wonder something… When left-leaning blogs and websites show advertising, what happens to the money? I mean, a blog is nothing without its readers, just like a company is nothing without its workforce, right? Is the money left over after operational costs are paid dispersed evenly amongst [...]
A Quick Hi and Some Thanks!
The last few days have been pretty crazy. Last Thursday Newscoma and I launched a little project, NewsTechZilla. We thought it was a good idea and would be a fun way to document some stuff. Little did we know it would explode. We’ve seen an unbelievable amount of support (and traffic) so far, and I [...]
A Content Generating Machine
Obviously, I’m not talking about me. I’m talking about Newscoma, who normally writes more before 9 am than I get to read all day. How lucky am I to get to work on a new project with someone like that? There’s a lot of buzz in the blogosphere right now about the demise of newspapers [...]
I Made the Deadline This Year
But just barely. Last year’s “year-end” post didn’t get written until we were literally hours into 2008. I’m on the ball this year though. Lots of changes for me this year! One big event is that I changed jobs. More accurately, I quit my job and got another one later. It was basically a case [...]
The Absurdity of the Big Three Bailout in One Sentence
If the taxpayers of this country wanted you to have their money (or had it to give), a good indicator would have been that they were actually buying your cars. Didn’t we already vote on this when we decided not to buy? More here: The federal government has no business running a car company. Congress [...]
2009 Internet Goals
I read this post the other day on Daily Blog Tips on 2009 Internet goals. Â It’s a group writing project they’re sponsoring. Â I haven’t participated in one of these in quite a while, but this one is pretty poignant. Â Goal setting is usually something that I do in my head, but of course it’s a [...]
The Death of News Stories?
I was running with @Mr_Schwartz the other day, and we were (once again) coming up with solutions to the world’s most difficult problems. Unfortunately for the world, I’m not doing too much distance these days, so there isn’t enough time to fix every problem. Nonetheless, the topic of conversation this cold and rainy night was [...]
And Now I’d Like to Pass the Mic
As you can probably tell, I haven’t had much time for posts lately, which sucks because there is a lot going on right now in Chicago. I’m doing my best to keep up, but my Chicago corruption kung fu is weak. If you read this post from a few days ago you got a little [...]
