Considered by many to be an ancient tradition of the twitterverse, “follow Fridays” (symbolized by the #followfriday or #ff hash tags) has been one of the primary ways at finding new friends on Twitter.
Taking a cue from its users, Twitter has created a feature that will help fans find friends with similar tastes without spamming [...]
Apple Inc. has announced its newest magical product, the Magic Trackpad – a portable trackpad with multitouch support and other interesting features. The Apple Magic Trackpad is a glass-laced multi-touch sensory piece of gadgetry that allows netbook-style navigation for your Mac Computers. The Magic Trackpad is by far, the largest multitouch trackpad manufactured by Apple [...]
With a community that’s as big as 100 million users, finding someone who shares the same interest is just like looking for a needle in a haystack! That’s just the case with Twitter. Out of 100 million users, there might be a couple thousand users who are worth following, and out of those couple thousand [...]
In their never ending quest to thwart spammers online, Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) has announced that bloggers on custom domains can purchase private registration in order to prevent spammers, trolls and (God forbid) stalkers from contacting you with unwanted messages.
Starting today you can add the private registration upgrade when you buy a domain, or [...]
Unlike their TextPattern friends who are still waiting to embrace the iVerse, lovers of ExpressionEngine (a premium blog service for “elite bloggers”) can now blog from their iDevices thanks in part to a third party company.
We have just released iExpression for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. iExpression does not require any add-ons other than [...]Anyone who has used OtterBox cases for their iPhone before will swear by how secure these cases are. OtterBox brings the same quality of cases for iPad to offers better security. Currently OtterBox offers two types of cases for iPad, 1) Commuter (see video above), and 2) Defender (Video coming soon). Although Defender series is [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review July 30, 2010 What skills do you need to succeed in your journalism career By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link A generation ago , the skills you needed as a journalist were well-defined . If you were going to work in a print newsroom , you needed to know how to report and write . If you wanted to work in photojournalism , you needed to develop still photography and photo editing skills . Videographers needed to know how to shoot and edit video . Broadcast journalists needed to develop the
Sprint has just announced that it’ll be rolling out HTC Evo 4G Android 2.2 update to all the HTC Evo 4G users out there. This certainly means HTC and Sprint are fulfilling their promise of serving the HTC Evo users with an Android 2.2 Update. The Android 2.2 Update for HTC Evo 4G brings a [...]
Non-Partner content developers uploading videos to YouTube can now provide multimedia up to 15 minutes in length. The company announced today that they have extended their 10-minute time limit effective immediately.
YouTube has announced that the extension is being given since they now have more copyright controls available for content providers, which means it is less [...]
After remaining in a dormant state for almost a year in a half, the LiveJournal team has resurrected the iPhone app previously created by CosySoftware and have adopted it as their own.
We’re pleased to announce that the new LiveJournal iPhone app is available for free in the Apple store! Be sure to download the application labeled “LiveJournal [...]
In their ever vigilant quest to protect Americans from terrorism, the US government is now requesting Congress to relieve them of the need to seek a judges permission before obtaining information from a web master.
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an [...]
Despite the fact that millions of iPads have been sold to consumers, very few bloggers have tailored their sites to that niche group (aside from making their blogs HTML5 friendly).
While the iPad’s large screen may make an iPad friendly layout unnecessary for most users, blogging pros may want to exercise more control over the appearance of their [...]During the elections, Obama and his team heavily relied on Technology to get the message out and gather support from the online community. A number of sites were launched after, Obama, came into power to share information with the nation in the interest of transparency. The newest site that is being launched from the White House [...]
Guest post by Roko Nastic. Social Media Marketing offers the best tools for free Brand Recognition. Having a social media presence has two major advantages: Firstly, social media profiles can increase...One of the best things about watching a live game in the stadium is the food you can have during the game, thats all good! Whats not good is the quality of food that is offered at the stadiums around the country. ESPN has launched an interactive map of a Vendor Inspection Report from the [...]Here is an awesome video that compares 4 generations of iPhone’s, performance wise. Don’t get your hopes hight, iPhone 4 didn’t come out in the front on all the tests. iPhone 4 was the quickest on almost all the tests that were performed except it had a slow shutdown and start time than the previous [...]RateRush.com, spent over two weeks studying and recording information from the two social news sites, Digg and Reddit. It’s no secret that Digg has a far bigger following between the two rivals but what makes this infographic interesting is the information it shows in terms of Top Sources, Top Submitters and what I like the [...]
You may have noticed on the homepage of your Yelp mobile app that deals are popping up in certain markets, the move is an attempt by Yelp to copy the success of the popular Groupon program which offers local limited-time offers to users.
According to The Next Web the company is going to implement a “daily [...]
For most of us, particularly gadget lovers, portability is a blessing in disguise but portable fans aren’t new. Not to mention, they aren’t always the same either. From table-top fans to USB fans and USB desktop coolers, a variety of fans are available in the market, but we suspect you might have never come across something [...]: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review July 22, 2010 Kids and digital storytelling : Who will teach them By Robert Niles 2 comments Archive Link As a former statistics major , I know that no one should read too much into a single example . But watching my 10-year-old son embrace video production is challenging some of my beliefs about the timing and content of journalism . education But it's not just my son . For many of his elementary school classmates , producing and distributing video has become as ubiquitous as writing and
: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review July 19, 2010 From the classroom to the digital marketplace : How we got to launch By Pamela Moreland No comments Archive Link The team behind foodgal.com called my bluff . Well , maybe I wasnâ t bluffing . Maybe I am ready to become a digital media entrepreneur . Weâ ll find out on Thursday July 22, 2010 Hereâ s the back story . I took a buyout from the San Jose Mercury News in March 2008. I was the AME for Features when I left . My intent was to start my own digital media company . During: , , About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review July 16, 2010 Diversity 2.0 : Recruiting a new , tech-savvy , generation of journalism students By Robert Niles 1 comment Archive Link I don't need to explain to journalism educators the importance of recruiting and admitting a diverse student body . Journalism educators realized , more than a generation ago , that graduating few other than white , middle-to-upper-income students would not well serve the economically and racially diverse , internationally-flavored communities that
: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review July 2, 2010 Style point : Have you ever met a white' person or a black' person By Benjamin Davis 5 comments Archive Link I am developing the new syllabus for my fall journalism course at Rutgers and I will be re-enforcing the need for telling the truth in journalism . No longer will my students refer to a âblackâ person or a âwhiteâ person . They will have to use their creative vocabularies to come up with a different way to describe people when writing news . stories I have never metAbout Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review July 2, 2010 More on writing high-earning evergreen topic pages for news websites By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link I wanted to address some questions and reactions to my piece last week about optimizing news websites for maximum AdSense revenue The questions focused on my final recommendation : Create sharply focused evergreen topic pages Since this is the most important of my recommendations , I felt it deserved some extra attention , especially since some folks appear to be having a