An interesting look at Ohio State University Medical Center decides to respond to social media comments and questions. Social Media Response Flow Chart

The PolySigh blog takes a look at what all reporters and editors know to be the hatchet they carry around in their back pocket– quoting their source verbatim and making them sound like an idiot. It’s common for reporters to clean up quotes by correcting grammar and removing verbal pauses [...]

I’ve worn either glasses or contacts since 2nd grade so I know how important correcting my vision is to be able to do my job– without vision correction I can’t see or do anything. I guess I could just site around and listen to the radio all day. A British [...]

Is it ever ok to break the rules? Here’s a case to consider. In this mornings soccer game Caleb was playing goalkeeper and a player on his team had the ball and was under pressure about three feet away from him. The player passed the ball back to Caleb (who [...]

It started snowing about noon on Friday and snowed until midnight. We woke up with six inches of snow covering everything except the streets (which were too warm to freeze over too much). We all had a great time outside making snow angels, throwing snow balls, and attempting to build [...]

If you haven’t noticed all the promos most of the Late Night TV shows are returning January 2. In most cases the hosts are crossing the picket lines to do their shows, but Letterman’s World Wide Pants has struck a contract with the writer’s guild. So, Letterman and Craig Ferguson [...]

In the latest jail break from Union County, New Jersey it’s apparent that the prisoner’s frequented their local movie theaters (or at least caught a re-run of Shawshank Redemption on TBS) and the jailers somehow missed the movie featuring a prison escape using pin-up posters to hide the hole in [...]

There are quite a few eye tracking studies going on, but a lot of times it’s hard to really put them to work. Christina Laun has analyzed the most recent students and come up with 23 lessons from eye-tracking. Some of the ones that I’m going to pay attention to [...]

As part of the Today show’s ends of the earth broadcast, Ann Curry has been broadcasting this week from Antarctica. I’ve been wondering how they pulled this off with the horrible weather down there, but Lost Remote pointed mentioned their use of IP video to send the signal. The shoot [...]

One of the keys to good web design is designing for accessibility. That is making your site easy to use for those with different kinds of limitations: an old computer/web browser, vision problems or even color issues. The designer putting himself in the place of the person with the accessibility [...]