The Atlanta Journal Constitution has announced they are cutting their print circulation area and focusing on growing digital. This is similar to the same steps taken in the past year by the Dallas Morning News and Gannett.

Colin Crawford, from the publishing company IDG predicts on his blog that half of the revenue will be generated online by 2009. IDG’s primary publications are niche technology magazines like Computerworld, CIO, Infoworld and Networkworld to the Consumer Technology segment with brands such as PCWorld, Macworld and GamePro. He says [...]

Google went missing a consonant on Valentine’s Day… According to the Google blog, the typo was on purpose. They call it a “subtle” design.

I’ve seen a couple of very interesting Time Lapse movies and I have been investigating the best techniques for shooting and putting one together. I found one pretty good tutorial on the equipment needed and technique and decided to try one out. In this video I collapsed 16 minutes down [...]

I just read Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables an autobiography by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer this weekend. The writing is a little quirky and the pacing dragged a little bit in the early chapters, but as the book picked up his stories [...]

Texas Republican Congressman, Lamar Smith, has introduced a bill that will require ISPs to record all users surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely. Smith cites the increasing sophistication of cyber-crimes and cyber-terrorists as the motivation for the bill. Unfortunately, I don’t think we can trust the government with [...]

In his Web Tips column on Poynter.org Sree Sreenivasan looks at some web based Photoshop Alternatives. The four web based photo editors he recommends are Picnik.com Snipshot.com Pixer.us Fauxto.com (pronounced “photo”) I’ve never used any of these, but I plan on checking them out. Especially Picnik.com which he says integrates [...]

I think we are seeing the advent of a new form media on the Internet right now with the emergence of the serialized mini-film. The first popular example of this was LonelyGirl15 which turned out to be highly scripted and directed. Now I have found similarly formatted film in 39 [...]

Copy editors and designers for newspapers try to write catchy headlines for their print editions, but when those headlines are shoveled on to the web as a link to a story they become misleading to the reader and and even harder for a search engine to understand. Many newspapers depend [...]

I just recently started posting on politics, particularly focusing on politicians use of online media to promote themselves/their causes. For some of my regular readers (all two of you) my interest in politics will come as a shock, but I guess I am trying to integrate (converge) my interests in [...]