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This week I received the latest, “Design” magazine, the Society of News Design’s quarterly journal, though July 6 SND posted an entry about their cover story, “The Industry Issue.”
This series of articles gives a sober, yet solid, and reassuring take on print journalism’s future, beginning with a wonderful opening note from Scott Goldman, SND president […]

Our computer problems turned out to be more than internet related.
We’re still waiting for our computer to be fixed. A back log, we’ve been told.
Ugh.
Am posting from a public computer, which makes me a bit uncomfortable.
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Here’s a great story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“Why do we spoil secrets?”
The equally great artwork above is courtesy of the San Jose Mercury News.
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This story questions how individuals behave, yet it also brings up the question of how the media reports stories of the Harry Potter ilk. With such much instant information circulating these […]

Please forgive my lack of posting these past couple of weeks. We have been without one computer and without savory internet service for our remaining computer. We’re hoping this situation will be remedied within the next few days. There’s a lot of media-related news I’ve wanted to write about.
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NowPublic was launched in 2005.
In their own words:
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had […]

It’s O.K.
You can use DVDs to back up your computer files.
They will recognize your files and you can retrieve them.
This may seem obvious to some people, yet it isn’t to everyone.
DVDs are great when you are trying to back up your entire computer. The DVDs we have at home can hold up to 4.7 Gigs. […]

A point which I wanted to bring up regarding my recent post on “defining Web 2.0″ was lost amongst everything else going on these past couple of weeks.
Thankfully, someone inadvertently reminded me.
Back to that quick conversation with those two young University of Michigan computer science majors:
Though I walked away from the conversation concluding Web 2.0 […]

For the past few days, we’ve had difficulty accessing many websites, including this one and my husband’s. Couldn’t even access our web-hosting group, A2 Hosting. There’s no problem on their end.
Thus, no posting.
We believe we’ve narrowed it down to either a bad modem or router. It will be nice if the problem is as simple […]

One of my favorite things about the internet is meeting like-minded people.

Plazes is truly growing into a place where that is easy to do.
Check out their most popular groups.
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MediaRights is hosting its annual “Media That Matters Film Festival.” MediaRights is a program of Arts Engine Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization.
The films are political and social statements.
To play them, you need the latest version of QuickTime.
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