Rolling Stone has rejected an advertisement for Today’s New International Version (TNIV) of the Bible from Zondervan, the nation’s largest Bible publisher. USA Today reports that the magazine told Zondervan it has an unwritten policy against accepting ads containing religous messages. Mark Moring, the online managing editor for Christian Music [...]

Google has just released a photo management software called Picasa as a free download with no registration fees. The software is designed to help you find, edit and share photos on your PC. I’ve been running the software for a day and it has worked pretty well. Right off the [...]

The Raleigh News and Observer reports that soliders shipping out with the 18th Airborne Corps are being issued a plastic wallet card to refer to when dealing with reporters. The front of the card contains a list of talking points to use with reporters and the back of the card [...]

When someone asks me whether I use mac or pcs, I tell them that I am bilingual and comfortable using both. In the past it used to be that Macs were good for certain tasks, but PCs did the rest well. Macs took care of design and video, but the [...]

Keynote systems released a study this week measuring customer attitudes towards major search engines looing for brand impact, customer satisfaction, loyalty and future usage. One surprise from this study is that Yahoo and MSN are quickly closing the gap on Google. Interestingly, the study noted that an emerging battleground for [...]

Along with my previous post, there is a website discussing bloggers being fired and an International Bloggers Bill of Rights. The blog is called the The Bloggers’ Rights Blog.

A rising theme on the subject of blogs is how does your work interfere with blog or how does your blog interfere with your work? In fact a number of people have been fired over their blogs. A few have been fired for comments made on their blog or pictures [...]

One area of the web that is developing into a field of it’s own is Search Engine Optimization. If you’re good at it you can make a lot of money consulting with company’s to help their results appear at the top of the various search engine’s results. I recently ran [...]

Here’s a great website that gives you a lot of information about typography. It’s called Thinking With Type.

Howard Owens started at the VCStar in 1999 as a content producer worked his way up to the Director of New Media and now has led the staff at the VenturaCountyStar.com to win an Online News Association General Excellence award for small news site. Online Journalism Review has a complete [...]