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 [...]
February 6, 2011
As the pro-democracy protests throughout Egypt held the world captive, a flood of photos has been coming in from photojournalists and activists. The photos were posted through various online services from Flickr to Twitpic to Facebook. Unless you knew who to follow on Twitter, it was impossible to take in all of the incredible images [...]
January 14, 2011
There’s little debate that Apple’s iPad is not a valid replacement for a laptop computer. It doesn’t have the multitasking features, nor the power of even the bottom line MacBook. But by the same token if you don’t have a laptop or notebook, your iPad could certainly suffice for getting writing done. A set of [...]
December 28, 2010
Citizen journalism may or may not be true journalism; in fact a lot of it is not. But it is a concept that has been embraced by the open nature of the web. Think of citizen journalism as ‘open source’ news reporting and you wouldn’t be far off the mark. Citizen journalism in the simple [...]
December 15, 2010
It seems like everyone owns a blog or microblog, with the advent of Twitter and increasingly simple blogging platforms like Tumblr and Posterous. And why not? You can showcase your talents in writing, spread the word on a cause you care about, and document your whereabouts. But when you simply want a place with no [...]
March 10, 2010
Readability is the quality of writing that makes it easy (or difficult) to read and understand. Ever since the web started stringing together HTML pages, readability acquired a different sort of importance. You can click on a URL and reach a webpage that’s designed for a 10 year old. You can click on another link [...]
February 3, 2010
My name is Ryan Dube and I am a corporate news media addict. There…I said it. I love the glitzy commercials, the shiny well-funded world news websites with lots of widgets and cool gadgets to feed my mobile phone and my PC with piles of important news headlines, like who won the Oscars last night [...]
