Monthly Archives: February 2008
The Commuter moves into Facebook and publishes Web content
The Commuter recently added a Facebook page. We’ll be adding more admins and some standard content to the page. Hopefully the discussion board post I made on the Northampton network helps with traffic. We’ll also advertise in our next print issue and run a small brief on the site. Speaking of the site, our Feb. [...]
WGA strike over, journalism took a hit
As the writers strike ends Jack Bauer fans can start rejoicing along with Academy Awards junkies (maybe we can actually have some real jokes at an awards show!). Now that Americans can get back to seeing if Meredith and whats-his-name on Grey’s Anatomy get back together the media can start picking through the new WGA [...]
Testing out Google
Apparently Google Documents is becoming more impressive than it already is. Forms will add a new way for connectivity and reader responses. This new feature reinforces my idea that Google will eventually take over the Internet. All they really need to do is set up an ISP and a Web browser. That might put a [...]
Tea bag leaves office steamed
Today in my Writing for the Information Age class (Web Journalism) we did another exercise where we take a story in print and re-write it for the Web. The following is compiled from some staff reports at The Express-Times. A sugar-packet sized bag containing a brown substance brewed suspicion that lead to an office building [...]
Online journalism wins through short ‘chunky’ text