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Adobe has a new online color tool called kuler. It’s got some pretty nice options.
Congratulations goes out to Eric and the rest of the folks at commercialappeal.com for winning an EPpy award for AppealTV.
MSNBC was offline for many users on Friday afternoon. The problems happened as they were making changes to the site’s domain name servers. A story on the site said, “The outage was caused by human error as our technicians modified the servers.” After an error like this right after I started managing web servers and dns, I read up on the process and how it works really quick and then I made extra sure any changes I made were correct before I saved them.
Mark Glaser has a great post on his mediashift blog on Micro-Blogging and Twitter. I’ve been playing with twitter off and one for a little over a month. I sort of understand why someone would put up what they do every moment of the day, but I’ve tried that and I just don’t know why anyone would care about that kind of detail about me.
So, instead of twittering about the minute detail of my day. I am going to try to give a running commentary of what I think about the news of the day or what’s hot for that day.
UPDATE: Check out my twitter feed in the right column of this blog.
The publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette recently wrote an opinion piece promoting the lack of dramatic circulation losses at the Democrat-Gazette as a result of requiring a paid subscription to view the news stories online. This opinion piece also appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The obvious problem with his argument is that he is comparing a backwards state like Arkansas with lowest broadband Internet adoption rates in the country and the lowest per capita home Internet connection rates in the country to the rest of the nation.
All newspaper subscriptions have ever done is pay for delivery– and in some markets not even that. Now that the newspaper reader is paying the Internet charge, the delivery cost for an online newspaper have almost eliminated themselves.
UPDATE: Techdirt points out another flaw in Hussman’s logic: the Democrat-Gazette is still losing circulation, just not losing it as fast as other similar newspapers. Losing circulation means lost revenue.
UPDATE 2: Howard Owens joins in with a well-thought out post on his blog encouraging the transition to “audience platforms” where the primary focus is on understanding the needs and interests of a specific audience segment and using that understanding to help audience members increase their “return on attention.”