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My absence Wednesday was due to being outside of an internet-accessible area. 
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O.K., call me late to dinner.
Though I bumped into this site a few months ago, I only checked it out now.

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This site is similar to marumushi’s newsmap in that is visualizes the news.
With marumushi’s model, the more stories on a particular topic, the larger […]

This slideshow widget is something I experimented with intensely when I was first testing out Wordpress’ blogging software.
Some lessons I’ve learned:
Not all browsers are widget-friendly;
Knowing how to fiddle with coding is essential;
Starting in one browser and ending in another can solve the most frustrating issue.
This slideshow widget was the bane of my existence for at […]

After a few months working on this blog,
it seems apparent that I would like to revise its focus my mission statement.
Just a bit.
This blog has always been about journalism and how this field is, and needs, to continue moving to the internet to maintain readership, at the minimum. Readership has become more important with the […]

Icycles I photographed near our home in Grand Rapids, Mich., 2005. 
Last week, the Copyright Alliance received strong support from Congress on tightening copyright laws.
If such laws were to be passed and inacted, I’m ambivalent about how I feel on this issue.
For one, my day job as a visual journalist for a daily newspaper necessitates strict […]

 POLL: What topic would you like discussed in this blog?
This poll is still open due to the enormous response I’ve received so far. 
I truly would love to know if you all have issues you’d like addressed in this blog.
I promise I will not use your personal information to spam you.
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Thanks to David Pogue, who writes Pogue’s Posts for The New York Times online edition, we all have a new reason to feel an illness coming on.
In Pogue’s latest post, he writes about the website, whoissick, a Web 2.0 site where people can post their current illness and plot their location. Mashed up with Google […]

Discovered this video at the Australian site, librariesinteract, which is focusing on what will libraries be like in 2010.
See/read more future visions or submit your own.

Andrew Finegan is the dude behind this future library vision.
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For awhile now, I’ve wanted to write about Gothamist, an online news community focusing only on what’s pertinent to its geographical location, New York City.
Gothamist has been online since 2002 and has grown from a two-person operation focusing on NYC to a much larger group with affiliate online communities focusing on local news in big […]

Skype is one of the best applications invented since sliced bread.
Though I’m not one to IM, I like Sykpe better than iChat/AIM (I’m a mac-user), because it has a myriad of functions. Many of them are free. I’ve used Skype mainly for one-on-one audio communication.
One perk: IMing can be used as part of the communication […]

The Poynter Institute shares stories on U.S. government censoring war coverage on the internet. They also provide a link to a flickr collection of war photos, created by soldiers media center.
One of their recent photos:
U.S. Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team search for weapons caches during a routine […]