Monthly Archives: January 2005

There is an interesting flash movie that envisions mergers between corporate behemoths capable of combining sophisticated search engines, recommender systems, video on demand personal publishing systems, email and mammoth databases into a news delivery system that will destroy “mainstream media” … Continue reading →

In the classroom, I encourage students to use weblogs primarily as a knowledge management tool, and secondarily as a tool for reflection. This Frank Nack article on a collection of innovative tools for “lifelogging,” as well as his reflections on … Continue reading →

Information on Northern Liberties Northern Liberties.org: guide to shops and local attractions. Some notes on the history of the neighborhood. Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association Philadelphia History Neighborhood discussion board Sample real estate Sugar Refinery, 1844 Water Works Profile of a … Continue reading →

Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review makes the case for insisting that journalism students learn to code HTML by hand, and I think he is right. Our students are exposed to basic html coding in our introduction to professional … Continue reading →

Back in the 80s, management gurus such as Tom Peters and Peter Drucker talked abotu the need to get closer to customers, to manage by walking around. Now exectives do it virtually with weblogs such as this one by GM … Continue reading →

An excerpt from one of an interesting series of posts from Get in Where Ya Fit In: People love to compare the video-game industry to the movie industry even though the comparison isn’t remotely accurate. Video games are still stuck … Continue reading →

Check out John Leyden’s article on the Register website.

Jakob Nielsen recalls his ten-year-old dreams of what hypertext could be. Of all of the ideas he suggests, user-constructed structure strikes me as having the most interesting implications for writers and editors.

I’ve posted links on Flickr and and my journalism blog asking for any word about them. They have been living in Sri Lanka the last few months. UPDATE: I have heard from the Odubekuns and they are well.