27 Apr
Trust not in online polls
Check this post on Mashable: The Beauty of Internet: 4Chan Founder Sweeps Times Most Influential List. Know when someone’s gaming your system, be ready to adapt, and admit it.
Archive for April, 2009
23 Apr
State-ment
For the record (and IMHO): I will almost always change “stated” to “said” in a news release. “Stated” calls attention to itself: Did the author intend to convey tone of voice? Does he/she mean the speaker more authorative than Joe Sixpack? that speaker is a statesman? Joe Friday* states. The rest of us talk. “Said,” [...]
08 Apr
Webcontent.gov
Webcontent.gov – Guide to Managing U.S. Government Websites .. is exactly what it says it is. A comprehensive resource.
03 Apr
Photo File: Fitting
Photo File: Fitting, originally uploaded by Utter East.
Spend a few minutes looking at this image. Look at the leading lines in the row of Sailors and the flag. Look how the images fit each other. Look at the almost perfect exposure. Find the sense of grief in dignity. This is a highly emotional photo, beautifully [...]
01 Apr
Thinking about Tomorrow
Clay Shirky, a New York University professor, says we’re going through a revolution similar to the one the West went through in the 1500s after the invention of the printining press. Journalism will survive, he believes. Newspapers will not — not even on the internet.
When someone demands to know how we are going to replace [...]
