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Columbia Journalism Review has a comprehensive listing of what companies own which media groups. Just select their pop-up menu to look at a company and its holdings.
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Columbia Journalism Review also has a nice photo essay on “The American Newsroom,” along with other worthwhile features.
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Lake County (Illinois) Forest Preserve has created an interactive Cicada Emergence Map.
It’s a great place to see where the 17-Year Cicada (aka periodical cicada ”Magicicada septendecim” ) is emerging.
Citizen journalism working to keep the masses informed.
Photo source via wikipedia: This image is a work of a United States Department of Agriculture employee, taken or made […]

After 28 years of wild and crazy “news” entertainment, Weekly World News is ending its print publication with its Aug. 27, 2007, issue. It will continue to publish online.
It looks as though updates on “Bat Boy,” a regular feature, will not continue online. We’ll miss you Bat Boy.
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The New York Times goes beyond the printed page and the internet with their live interview series, TimesTalks.
Open to the public, many of the interviews take place at The TimesCenter, part of The New York Times Tower & headquarters, located in the Times Square District, thus bringing the community to them.
The Times has podcasts of […]

For a month or so, I’ve been wanting to write about Newspaper Association of America’s effort to reach more readers across as many platforms through their multi-media campaign, Newspaper. The Multi-Medium.
The campaign comes from the advertising point of view, “Where today’s readers go, today’s advertisers follow,” and cites various statistics from readership to advertising sales […]

Newspapers continue to put too much on their front webpage.

Though the concept is not new, Information Architects has come up with some solid rules for designing the front page of a website.
Check out their: 100% Easy-2-Read Standard.
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Thanks to Gene Crawford, president and co-founder of design firm Period Three, who introduces us to the usability resource, The User Experience Magazine via his interview with Communication Arts‘ Design Interact.
Crawford and UX Magazine are using the phrase, “user experience” instead of “usability.” The former phrase is much clearer to both end-user and web […]

Finally, our internet connection is working and our computers are happy. The wait has been difficult. During this time, my posts have been closer to once a week. I may stick with this, though there has been quite a bit of print and internet media news lately.
Back in the saddle again.
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