In Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, Steve Yelvington points us to the latest survey of broadband penetration. In many markets high-speed internet connections at home now out number dial-up connections. This revelations pushes us to question if we still always need to be conscious of the download time of our content on [...]

Debbie Weil, the web writing wizard, believes a good blog can be an integral part of business and help a business make money. In her email newsletter, WordBiz Report, she is promoting an article entitled Advice to the bloglorn: top 3 tips to banish fear of blogging by Lois C. [...]

In the latest installment of his “Alertbox Newsletter, Jakob Nielsen declares “much of the Web is like an anthill built by ants on LSD: many sites don’t fit into the big picture, and are too difficult to use because they deviate from expected norms.” He goes on to complain about [...]

In several realms of my life (teaching and research), I’ve been trying to define what exactly makes a weblog. I’ve started off on a web search to try to help me find some authoritative resources on this. One of the best articles that I’ve ran across on this subect is [...]

According to a post in Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits pastor’s may soon start encouraging church members to bring their cell phones to church. Instead of passing the plate, a group of church’s in Denmark have set-up where members can give via a SMS system on their cell phones.

We’ve all seen how blogs can be used to inform and persuade, but another nice use for them is to educate. Educause, a higher ed technology consortium, published an article in their September/October magazine on Educational Blogging. They profile one school in Canada who is encouraging classes to set up [...]

At first glance, I really wasn’t impressed with Apple’s new iMac G5 deisign. As I took a deeper look, I decided that I just had to have one. Unfortunately, that decision comes down to food for my kids or the new iMac and my kids will always win that one.

The New York Times has written a great story about the technical needs of the Democratic National Convention. They even have a wireless SWAT team to lookout for people operating unauthorized wireless devices that may interfere with authorized wireless devices.

I made a big deal of whether bloggers should receive credentials to the political conventions. I was specifically speaking of bloggers who aren’t mainstream journalists. Well there are a lot of mainstream journalists who are blogging the Democratic National Convention this week. Poyter.org has a great list of blogs at [...]

After much debate and arguments, some bloggers are receiving credentials to the national political conventions. I think there are more than a few mainstream journalists who are dismayed at the conventions recognition of the bloggers. Primarily, because of the publics tendency to confuse websites expressing personal opinions, like blogs, and [...]