A model for online journalism?

The New York times recently had an article about voiceofsandiego.org, a journalism publication that is solely online. It made a name for itself by going places where other San Diego media had not, mainly with investigation into local government corruption and mismanagement.
The unique thing about it is that it’s only online, which [...]

I think, therefore I own

In today’s online world, information is easily accessible to anyone with motivation and imagination to look for it. Also in this cyberweb are people who publish themselves, and what they publish are mainly things they find on other websites. Among the ‘official’ news media, many news sites are aggregators that feature content that [...]

Lots of election info+bad connection=watching tv

Breaking news is what people want to know during an election. This used to be the domain of the television, but for this presidential election, users are going to know results as they happen in realtime when they want to as cyberspace gives them what they want to know.
However, one of the downfalls of [...]

Video!!!

Here’s a quick vid I made using Windows Movie Maker. It was kind of nostalgic because I haven’t used Movie Maker since high school, and also frustrating because I’ve been spoiled by Final Cut Pro. This is pretty rough, there are some things I feel I should change but I think it’s good [...]

iTunes sucks

I thought this assignment would be easier than it was. Thanks to needing an upgrade for iTunes, which stopped my iTunes store from working, and an internet problem I spent 30 minutes just trying to listen to a podcast.
Mildly annoyed by my computer problems and two separate reboots, I settled on listening [...]

Your favorite type of bike

What kind of bike do you prefer?

Google provides yet another trend

I found this little gem while browsing through my bookmarked websites today. Google Trends. It lets you see and compare what people have been searching for on Google since 2004.
Being election season, I did a search of Obama and McCain, and these are the results:
It’s easy to explain why traffic is [...]

A beginner’s resource to the online world of webcomics

The opportunities from the Internet are boundless. Our class is about how journalism is adapting to the internet, and how we, as journalists, will adapt as well. Journalism isn’t the only thing changing due to the internet.
One of my favorite procrastinating activities on the internet now is looking at webcomics. It used [...]

Behold the Blogosphere!

Blogs are the voices of the internet. They allow millions of people to share their thoughts, opinions, interests, and information with whoever is interested. With the internet as a medium, the possibilities are endless as to what can be done with blogs.
Blogs are considered an alternative form of journalism, it doesn’t relay news [...]

Writing for the web

Writing for the web is much different than writing for print. The way people consume information online is fundamentally different than the way they do for a newspaper or magazine that writing for the web has taken it’s own niche in journalism writing.

Readers don’t read stories, but rather scan them to pick [...]