A Neo-Techie's Morning

Alex Aylett has a very interesting article in The Tyee today: A Neo-Techie's Morning taught me a lot about how people are using new technologies. Very much worth reading....

10 Years of New Media
Here s a fascinating look back at the challenges of creating new media back in the early 1990 s. The bottom line: The more things change, the more they stay the same As Steve Outing says in the original post, the lesson...

Taking a Holiday
I'm away on Wednesday, June 21 for a week in the Canadian Rockies. I won't have much access to a computer, so if you send me email I won't be able to answer (or post here) until the very end of June or the beginning of July. Hope your week will be as happy and surprising as mine will be. My wife and I find Jasper National Park an amazing...

Don't Bomb Us - Al Jazeera Blogs
A very interesting development: After release of the news that George Bush was thinking of bombing Al Jazeera's headqurters in Qatar, staff have responded by creating Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers. I doubt that blogs can actually confuse cruise missiles, but at least it will draw more attention to the difficulties of life in the Middle East media....

The New York Times on Airline Security
I've been on the road a lot lately and continue to be amazed by the odd airport security solutions used by the TSA. I got off a plane last Thursday, the first day of no liquids, gels, etc., finally feeling...

PR Tips - Write for Action
Here are some more good tips for writing press releases about your business from Joan Stewart's 89 Day Kick-Butt Press Release tutorial. Decide exactly what you want your press release to accomplish. It's all about changing people's behavior and prompting...

Letters to the Editor Done Right (and Wrong)
How hard is this?! Wouldn t you think one of the first things a newspaper would do on their website is make the letters to the editor section as open and blog-like as possible? Every morning I read a letter or...

Newspaper Industry Irony
I m not sure how I came across this, but I discovered the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) site the other day and started poking around on it. What really caught my eye was the New Media item in the Federations ...