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January, 2007

31 January

Going over to the dark side?

This is a little confusing but HTML, CSS, web standards evangelist, Molley E. Holzschlag wrote on her blog today that she is Working on contract basis for Microsoft with Internet Exploer team. She also mentions that she will be working with the Expression Web (Microsoft’s new web design product replacing [...]

31 January
Posted in Uncategorized

Superbowl through 42 different eyes

This year CBS is using 42 High Definition Cameras at the Superbowl and over 500 staffers. Broadcasting and Cable reports “CBS will have 21 hard (or wired) cameras, three cabled handheld cameras, two wireless handheld cameras, one wireless Steadycam camera, one CableCam camera, two robotic goalpost cameras, two robotic coaches [...]

30 January
Posted in Technology

Vista no show

Many times I write about general techy subjects, but I realized that recently I have been a no-show, no-comment on Windows Vista. I guess this means I would just fall into the category of someone who has XP working pretty well for them and doesn’t want to deal with the [...]

30 January

Data crunching tools

I’ve been playing around with forms, databases and data driven websites for a little more than five years now. In the beginning, I used access databases and Dreamweaver UltraDev to write the vbscript and sql to interact with databases. Later, I graduated to Microsoft SQL and mySQL and even some [...]

29 January
Posted in Online Media, Politics

Huckabee announces, but can’t find his site!

Arkansas’s former governor, Mike Huckabee, announced yesterday morning on Meet the Press that he was running for the Republican nomination for president for the 2008 election. As I was watching him duck and weave Tim Russert’s question on my DVR late Sunday morning (about 10:45 a.m.), I started looking for [...]

29 January
Posted in Journalism, Media

An essential to good storytelling: Editing

I am all about telling a good story and that’s what journalism is all about for me– using the right medium to convey your message to your audience. One essential to good journalism (and good storytelling) is editing. Behind every wonderful writer is a wonderful editor. The site editTeach is [...]

28 January

Programmer, Journalist…

American Journalism Review published a profile of Adrian Holovaty in their January/February issue. He’s responsible for the award winning mashup ChicagoCrime.org. The article recognizes him as a pioneer in the new field of programming journalist as he “collects data, synthesizes it and converts it to an understandable format to give [...]

27 January

How to do newspaper video.

Online media guru Rob Curley is sharing the details that went into the Naples Daily News Studio 55 Vodcast. He covers where the idea came from,how they implemented and why it worked. It’s the way newspapers should try convergence.

26 January
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Microsoft Professional Photo Tools

Microsoft is courting the professional photography market and is making a concerted effort to reach out to pro photographers. So far they launched the Professional photography with Windows XP website, held the Microsoft Pro Photo summit and released a couple of software tools to add to the Windows XP environment. [...]

26 January
Posted in Me

This blog has moved

This blog has moved, but you probably won’t really notice if you always went to lanniebyrd.com to read it. If you went to some other address or read the rss feed, then you probably did notice it moved. I switched from having blogger ftp the blog to my host at [...]

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