Newsday’s iPad App – Real Newspapers Sometimes Better

Yes, there are some things that an actual newspaper is better at than an iPad. Duh. The real ad… Jerry Bruckheimer version

Ocoee “Gotta Keep Reading” Video on e-School News

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After reaching the heights of being featured on the Oprah Winfrey show one might think that getting featured on the e-School News blog would be “meh,” that is unless your a teacher-type. Check out the e-School News story, it’s the most in-depth story so far (with a very big audience). (BTW: The video has over [...]

In Bad Faith, Part 4: The Evil Media

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A few months ago I saw this comment on my Twitter feed: “RT @vavroom: Sometimes, small minded Christianity really saddens me. (via @kubke @snowded @annemcx @euan )” – Christine Morris (@CMoz). And attached was a link to a story from the Telegraph in the UK about how a film about Charles Darwin was having difficulty [...]

The King of Kong & the Ongoing Myth of Objective Documentary Films

This past summer I saw the critically acclaimed documentary, “King of Kong” at the inaugural meeting of a Full Sail documentary film club. Great film. When one of my fellow film viewers confessed that he wanted to punch the antagonist, Billy Mitchell, in the mouth and everyone in the room agree; it was clear that [...]

November 4th, 2008

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As much as I’ve wanted to, I just haven’t had the time to sit down and do any serious blogging. Thus, I’ve had to resort to recording my feelings on this important day via the 140 character repository of wisdom and subtlety known to most as Twitter… Here’s my feed from this amazing day: happy [...]

Now the Campaign Really Begins

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! I love political cartoons. I have a book of cartoons from from famed LA Times political cartoonist Paul Conrad. The Jib-Jab team takes it to a new level (I especially like the good-looking voter at the end of the video). Following the Republican convention my brother sent me a COMMENTS [...]

Don’t Piss Off the IT Guy

sfgate.com broke the story last week that a San Francisco network admin, Terry Childs, had been arrested and was charged with four counts of computer tampering for giving himself exclusive access to a city computer network that handles 60-percent of all city government data and for locking everyone else out. After the hearing Child’s defense [...]

KTLA Report Owned for Stupid Question During iPhone Coverage

It’s probably not a good sign when a reporter starts his report on “iPhone Mania” by saying that he doesn’t understand why these people are lining up for a phone. “It’s just a phone,” he whines just before approaching the first “subject.” Credit to the guy in line for calling the KTLA Reporter, Eric Spillman, [...]

Winter Dance Pix… Blah

just got the pix back from yesterday’s winter dance. yearbook photags took 13 pix. previous dance 500+ pics, firings to follow… argh # just talked w/ yearbook photags & the reason i only got 13 pix is because it was the 2nd memory card, they filled the 1st. jobs saved # not many pix on [...]

Crusader News is on the “air”

The past two weeks a lot of my focus has been on getting a website up for my journalism class. This past week I finally unveiled it to my students and we are now in the process of putting content online. In the “Welcome” blurb I wrote: “Crusader News is a brand new experimental online [...]

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