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 [...]

Even though I am rarely posting on this blog now, I have switched it over to a WordPress blog. WordPress is a great blogging platform and is a great choice for a CMS for smaller sites. I’ve used it on several sites over the last couple of of years. I’m [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]