So, no new posts in three months. I guess I went on hiatus. Not on purpose. Just didn’t post because I was too busy. I’m three months into my job at Memphis’s leading information source (online or not). So far we’ve had two school shootings, a tornado rip through town, [...]
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New job, new adventures
Tomorrow I will start my new job as the online content manager at commercialappeal.com the web site of The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis. If you know me or you have read my blog you know that I love anything new online and I have a passion for journalism. At [...]
Good enough isn’t enough
Seth Godin has a great post on his blog asking is good enough enough?. Instead of good enough he says we should redefine the objective to be “makes some people uncomfortable, changes the entire competitive landscape and is truly remarkable in that many of the key people we reach feel [...]
Listening to Scoble
Thursday night I finally finished reading Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. I say finally because it took me about a month to read it. Please don’t let that be an appraisal of my opinion of the book. [...]
Canon problems and service
I have had a Canon Powershot A95 digital camera since April 1995. I bought the camera to take with us to Maui and it took awesome photos, but after I got my Canon 20D Digital SLR I haven’t used it for much more than shooting videos. Today, I was shooting [...]
Blog changes
Over the last couple of months, I’ve added a couple of sections to this blog (very easily thanks to bloggers layout configuration tools). Today, I added the good reads (books) section with links to books that I am reading, just read or plan on reading next. If you have a [...]
Memphis Zoo train memories
In the news today, the train at the Memphis Zoo lost its last car, then the car derailed and flipped. No one in the train was injured, but several riders were transported to the hospital. I remember riding the train at the Memphis Zoo (they have nice site with a [...]
Newspaper Innovations
If you frequently read my blog you know that I enjoy web design, photography, politics and video production, but newspapers and online journalism are what really excite me. I am particularly interested in innovations at newspapers. In fact, I wrote my master’s thesis on online newspapers use of technology. Last [...]
What is it about February?
Last month I posted 31 times on this blog. That’s a record in a month for me. I am especially proud of that many posts in the month with only 28 days. Apparently, there is something about February and blogging that I really like. February was my peak blogging month [...]
Computer glitch triggers Dow Jones free fall
Today the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416 points (about 3.3 percent). According to the Washington Post the main free fall in the market was “triggered by a technological glitch that caused a backlog of trades to be calculated at nearly the same time.” The story reported that about $600 [...]