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While my husband and I were in New England, one thing I saw several times: Articles on front pages that had been reported by radio/television/internet midday-to-evening the day prior.
The headlines indicated the news was new and the stories followed the same pattern.
Newspapers really have to stop pretending it’s all right to cover first details of […]

In our little neighborhood’s business district there’s a highly visible street-level billboard.
The ad on it today is of a State Farm Insurance representative.
Her message is roughly: Right now homeowners’ insurance rates are down in East Grand Rapids.
(Hint, hint.)
EGR is an expensive, affluent city. Taxes, insurance, mortgages are higher than a good portion of this […]

Since taking on this blog project – which has been enjoyable – I feel like I’m spending more time coming up with a daily post and not enough time learning about/experimenting with new interactive, practical online applications.
What does this mean for this blog?
It might mean that I will post less frequently – something […]

My husband and I are back in Michigan, having arrived at Detroit Metro Airport.
On our way back to Grand Rapids, we stopped in Ann Arbor for dinner.
Afterwards, we went to Beaner’s Coffee to fill our caffeine fix for the long drive.
Always trying to get a sense of what people using laptops at coffee houses know […]

One thing I’ve noticed while in New England, especially in outlying and/or northern areas, is that Wi-Fi is much harder to find.
And a good percentage of the people we’ve encountered don’t know what Wi-Fi is.
We had a motel clerk say that wi five was just installed at this establishment. He knew it was to access […]

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Ten winners in ten categories
Analysis of the 100 Webware 2.0 winners.
Definitely check out the video analysis by Rafe Needleman of c|net’s webware.

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Hey, some free time to add an entry. It will be interesting to see how this video and the other submissions change ranks during the course of YouTube’s Sketch contest.

The above video is ranked in the top 20 best video submissions of YouTube’s First Round of “YouTube’s Sketches Sketch Comedy Contest”. When I first saw […]

My husband and I are going on vacation starting tomorrow. I’m hoping to get some posts in while we’re gone, but one never knows how this will go. Also, I’m hoping to have a guest columnist or two. Thanks to everyone who follows these daily posts. annieo (aka Nancy)
Here’s something terribly old, yet quite lovely […]

While perusing NetSquared, I discovered that J-Lab, The Institute for Interactive Journalism, is in its final days seeking submissions for its 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Submissions will be accepted from the following forms of media: Online, print, television and radio. The winner(s) will receive $10,000.
This year, J-Lab has added the Citizens […]