January 23, 2012
I started journal writing back in the early eighties when I was in college, but haven’t really put personal thoughts to paper in the last fifteen years. After thinking long and hard about what medium I wanted to use to keep my journal, I chose Penzu.com because it offers advantages over traditional paper notebooks and even popular blog sites like Wordpress and Tumblr.
October 28, 2011
Are you always on the go? Do you regularly find yourself in the midst of all the action in your town? If you’re also taking great photos, capturing video footage or writing up quick explanations and putting them online, you’ve probably crossed the line into citizen journalism. Whatever your motives for doing this, you’re going to want the process to be as simple and hassle-free as possible.
July 4, 2011
Tucked away in the smorgasbord of online games is a genre called news games. Yes, you read it right. New games take any past or present global happening and turn into an interactive game. Free news based online games are also important educational tools. Here are seven news games for you to try out right now.
June 8, 2011
When a big story breaks, and there’s no journalist around to hear it – does the news still have a voice? The guys behind Meporter, an intriguing new location-aware news app certainly think so – and they’d like to put you forward for the job. Everyone’s a citizen journalist these days, and the recently launched Meporter is your chance to streamline the citizen journalist role.
June 2, 2011
The recent furor over Twitpic’s decision to sell user photos has left many users disgusted and looking for alternatives. Twitter itself has decided to join the photo uploading market, but there is another alternative reaching us now. Zuu.li was created to fill a need: the need for users not only to maintain rights over their pictures, but to facilitate deals between a hungry news media and the users.
May 4, 2011
Want to know what’s really going on? Read the documents behind the news. Journalists strive to summarize complex documents, but sometimes its nice to read source material in its entirety. Thanks to DocumentCloud, an web service partnered with various media organizations, now you can.
April 6, 2011
One day when I was browsing news stories, I noticed that one particular story was published not by CNN, Associated Press or the Washington Post, but instead by a small time blogger who had landed a pretty cool exclusive story. Front page Google News. For a moment I thought about the traffic that must have offered her site. So I set out to learn exactly what it takes to become an authorized Google News publisher.
April 6, 2011
The New York Times is now behind a paywall, but it’s not the only newspaper on the Internet. If you’re looking for a free alternative to the Grey Lady there are more than a few that offer quality, well-written reporting. The list below attempts to include only the best alternatives the web has to offer, so keep reading to see if you can’t find a new homepage.
March 30, 2011
Did you know that the New York Times spent an incredible $40 million on their recent paywall solution? Did you also know that it can be circumvented with all but a few clicks? If you’re interested in how the Internet has rendered $40 million worth of effort redundant, then read on.
February 7, 2011
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s latest news outlet, an iPad-only “newspaper” called The Daily, and now you can see for yourself what all the fuss is about without spending a cent. The Daily puts all content from the application on the web just in case someone spots something they want to [...]
