journalism

Mistakes Were Made: On Camera [video fridays]

June 1, 2012 by jbb

As the painfully extended “Mistakes Were Made” week concludes I’d like to recognize those men and women who often have put themselves in harms way to bring us the news and chief among them, those who have “flubbed” their lines and shown their human side. Enjoy. This last one is a collection of TV show [...]

Filed Under: featured, JBB's Media Buzz Tagged With: bloopers, comedy, fail, journalism, mistakes were made, themedia, TV news

Mistakes Were Made: Journalism Still Faltering Making “Digital” Work

May 21, 2012 by jbb

The dream that the iPad and assorted Android tablets were going to save the magazine and newspaper business is dead, according to stories published last week by the Verge and Gigaom. Both publications pointed to an article by Jason Pontin posted in MIT’s Technology Review that cited all of the horrors and unfulfilled expectations [...]

Filed Under: featured, JBB's Digital Fiefdom Tagged With: engadget, HTML5, ipad apps, jason pontin, journalism, magazines, mistakes were made, national geographic, tech journalism, technology review, the verge, zinio.com

In the News: Newspapers/Magazines on the iPad, Part 2

January 19, 2012 by jbb

Man Reading Newspaper at Beach - Microsoft Office Clipart

So when we last left our hero, I was looking for the best way to consume my daily news via my iPad… I had discovered that the Amazon kindle edition of the Los Angeles Times was much improved from earlier versions. My guess is that earlier versions, because of limitations of the kindle itself, were [...]

Filed Under: featured, JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Media Buzz, JBB's Tech Tips and Picks Tagged With: abc news, amazon.com, bbc news, ipad, journalism, kindle, la times, new york times, newmedia, newspapers

In The News: Newspapers/Magazines on the iPad, Part 1

January 10, 2012 by jbb

Newspaper forest green by NS Newsflash/Jon S

I have memories of my father spending every morning of his life reading the LA Times, weekdays and weekends. He was up at the crack of dawn and gone before we invaded the kitchen most mornings, but the evidence of his presence was there in the refolded sections of the newspaper. In later years I [...]

Filed Under: featured, JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Ed Tech, JBB's Life Issues, JBB's Media Buzz, JBB's Tech Tips and Picks Tagged With: amazon.com, ipad, journalism, la times, magazines, national geographic, newmedia, newspapers, the daily, zinio.com

Why Does C/NET Hate Apple?

January 2, 2012 by jbb

I don’t remember what cable channel it was on, but I was so happy to find a future-tech-oriented TV show one day many, many years ago and soon came to appreciate and look for the giant red C/NET logo. That was before Tech-TV, which has come and gone, and before podcasting. These days, I continue [...]

Filed Under: JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Media Buzz Tagged With: apple, brian tong, buzz outloud, CNET, fail, haters, journalism, molly wood, podcasts, rants, VideoPodcast

Is The IBM PC/XT Doomed To Be Technology’s Next Dinosaur? A 1987 Article

November 12, 2011 by jbb

As I read through the Steve Jobs biography I was reminded of an article that I wrote in 1987 for one of my journalism classes. Several years into my own micro-computer adventures I was intrigued by IBM’s hard-right-turn, having captured the small computer market, to try to make it completely proprietary with it’s proposed OS/2 [...]

Filed Under: featured, JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Life Issues, Journal Classics Tagged With: 1980s, CP/M, history, IBM, journalism, MSDOS, oldtech, OS/2, PCDOS

Rebekah Brooks “Friday” (Rebecca Black Parody)

August 12, 2011 by jbb

This week’s media mashup:

Filed Under: featured, JBB's Media Buzz, Past Featured Media Tagged With: fail, journalism, meme, musicvideo, youtube

Four Video Essays on Ed-Tech – Video Resume

January 31, 2011 by jbb

I created these video essays in 2005 when I was looking for another ed-tech job. Enjoy. “Labs Versus Classrooms” is a video essay about the most effective ways to implement technology on a school site.

Filed Under: education re-examined, featured, Journal Classics Tagged With: edtech, education, journalism, studentwork, teaching, video, video resume, youtube

New Start for Homeless Man with Golden Voice

January 14, 2011 by jbb

Filed Under: copyright issues, featured, JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Life Issues, JBB's Media Buzz, Past Featured Media Tagged With: audio, copyright, homelessness, journalism, lifestyle, music, newmedia, youtube

Obama Hope Poster For Sale or “Shephard Fairey: Oops”

January 13, 2011 by jbb

(FILES) People walk past Shepard Fairey'

Another day, another Fair Use issue in the headlines. Imagine my surprise as I began to do research to update my previous article on the Fair-Use/Copyright kerfuffle between the Associated Press (AP) and street-artist/icon-wanna-be Shephard Fairey, to discover that the case was dismissed yesterday, January 11th, 2011, and that the two parties had entered into [...]