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Robb Montgomery doesn’t seem to sleep.
Today, he launched the very cool, social, mashed up, Web 2.0 version of Visual Editors with the help of Ning, social software for anyone who wants to create online social networks.
Thank you, Ning, for existing.
The old VizEds is fun to hang around.
The new VizEds magnifies that fun 100 times.
Journalists: […]

LinkedIn is a great website for networking and looking for jobs. However, it can get pricey for their premium job-searching tools.
Now there’s NotchUp, which is a free service for job seekers. NotchUp charges companies to use their service. Job seekers set what their interview time is worth. Job seekers also can earn money for referring […]

The Washington Post, like many media outlets, is gaga over cool, interactive software.
This is a good thing.
But sometimes, it can lead to fluff, leaving readers with nothing more than pretty interactive graphics and nothing relevant to learn.
A good example is The Washington Post’s use DayLife’s software to generate an infographic showing a story count of […]

Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine receives pithy commentary from various journalists on the topic, “A diploma and a blog. The topic broadens to journalism job applicants who write blogs.
Jarvis, an associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism, has an interesting and […]

Audio, video, interactive maps and charts, RSS feeds, automatic updates, candidate match-up quizzes, fun and engaging.
Network news and public radio websites may have the more visually-friendly election coverage, but along with newspapers all three entities are using the above devices/elements to cover the U.S. Presidential Election 2008.
From what I’ve observed so far, the one attribute […]

With the presidential primaries and caucuses here, it’s a good time to head to those websites which help individual voters figure out what his or her political ideology and which presidential candidates one is most closely aligned politically.
Some quizzes are:*
speakout
SelectSmart
GoToQuiz
Some great quizzes to find out your personal political ideology
IDEAlog
politopia
The Political Compass
World’s Smallest Politcal Quiz
The Enhanced-Precision […]

A great website I stumbled upon several weeks ago deserves acknowledging:

Regret the Error >> Mistakes Happen created by Craig Silverman, a freelance journalist and author based in Montreal.
Silverman’s 2007 roundup of printed errors
All good journalists admit to making mistakes. It’s the first step to making fewer errors and growing as a journalist.
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Founder and CEO of Technorati, David Sifry, created Hoosgot, a handy resource for all needs relating to blogs.
Sifry says, “Hoosgot (pronounced “who’s got…”) is a simple way to ask (other bloggers) who’s got what you’re looking for. … It’s meant to give you a place to send the requests for all of those things […]