I went and checked my Joost invitation status today, and wouldn’t you know it, I’ve got 999 invites. Well, 993, since I sent out a few to anyone who entered my recent contest. Now, I don’t have the time and energy to give away 993 invites one at a time. But if anybody wants an […]
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Top umpteen reasons to quit/keep your job
The internet likes lists. OK, the internet’s an inanimate network of computers and could care less what you write. But people like lists because they’re easy to digest. Give me a topic, and I’ll show you a list that’s been made into an email forward, submitted to Digg, and plastered all over the internet. But […]
Do journalists or bloggers inspire confidence?
The End of Journalism poses an interesting question about bloggers, journalists, and the public trust. If journalism is one of the least trusted professions, and people are keenly aware that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet, especially blogs, where does that leave readers looking for information? The truth is, you can get […]
Joost contest ends tomorrow
This is just a quick reminder. If you’re in the market for a Joost invite, my contest ends Wednesday at midnight. I’m giving away my last two invitations. All you have to do to enter is: Click on this link for my contest page. Leave a message in the comments on that page. If you […]
ABC News redesign adds more video, user comments, and citizen journalism
ABC News is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its website this May by launching a new site design. The site design is a bit cleaner, and has some nice features like icons next to each headline to easily let you know if there are photos, videos, visitor polls, or just text. The site also makes […]
A (brief) tale of two operating systems
For anyone who’s been following my blog for the past few weeks, it should be obvious that I’m developing a love-hate relationship with both Windows Vista and Kubuntu Feisty Fawn. Here’s the thing. We’re moving in three weeks. Up until then, we live on a university campus where my wife is finishing up her master’s […]
Cheap web hosting
This blog is still powered and hosted by Google’s Blogger. But I decided it was time to get my own domain name. Unfortunately BradLinder.com was taken, so I settled on BradLinder.net. Having never purchased a domain before, I spent some time checking out a number of sites. I was about to use GoDaddy, which promised […]
Debate over email interviews continues
This story just will not die (probably because people like me keep dredging it up). Jeff Jarvis weighed in today on the question of whether journalists should be willing to conduct interviews by email. Jarvis basically says that there’s no good reason journalists should avoid email interviews because: If journalists want to set the terms […]
2 more Joost invites to give away
I’ve got two more Joost invites to give away. Joost is the new internet television platform by the makers of Skype and Kazaa. While there’s still not a ton of content available for Joost, the company has been signing up major partners like Viacom in recent months. Currently you can catch some B-list Comedy Central […]
How the Roanoke Times covered the VA Tech shooting online
Web servers go down all the time when you get too much traffic in too short a time. If this happens because your latest story wound up on the front page of digg, it’s probably not the end of the world. But if readers are flocking to your site for the latest information on a […]
Samson launches the Zoom H2
As I’ve said before, the Zoom H4 Handy Recorder is a great tool for radio producers or podcasters on a budget. For under $300, it has a high quality internal microphone, XLR inputs with phantom power, and sounds better than flash-based recorders that cost twice as much. One while one of the main draws for […]
Why you need RSS
Right, so I was planning on writing up a detailed post about why journalists need to learn to use RSS readers and then give detailed instructions on how to set up a reader. But I don’t think I can top this video. In a nutshell, subscribing to RSS feeds will do two things. Save you […]
Calacanis v. Wired: Kerfuffle over email interviews
So a journalist for WIRED sends an interview request to Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis and asks for an interview. Calacanis responds that he’ll do the interview via email, but not by phone. He’s a busy guy, and he doesn’t want to be misquoted. The reporter turns him down. Scripting.com’s Dave Winer had a similar […]
The BBC is posting it’s entire media catalog online
The BBC is embarking on a pilot project to post every radio and television program the corporation has ever broadcast online. The searchable database will include millions of hours worth of broadcast material. This would probably be one of the largest, if not the largest library of broadcast news available on the internet. Odds are […]
Why I’m not using Ubuntu full time
As I mentioned a last week, I’m running Windows Vista and Ubuntu on my new laptop. One of the first things I did when I brought my Toshiba A135-4527 home was partition the hard drive and add Kubuntu. I was even surprised to discover that GRUB automatically recognized Vista. This changed the first time I […]
Building your resume online
A friend of mine is a getting her doctorate a journalism school I won’t name right now. While everyone acknowledges that new media technologies are changing the nature of journalism, the school is primarily teaching the same subjects it always has. On the one hand, that’s important. Because kids will figure out how to use […]