David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
A Test of TypePad’s E-mail Blogging Functionality
It seems that more and more blogging services are turning on to the fact that most blogging input templates are pretty damn annoying. I say this as an advocate for the medium. I also speak as one who has seen hours of work evaporate as the interface crashed, or...
Happy Students in Astana, Kazakhstan
This is the last class I taught in Astana - they were very engaged with the idea of moving from traditional media to "New Media," particularly with blogging. The main question on everyone's mind was "How do I drive more traffic to my site?" I showed them some of the...
The Endless Sub-Siberian Steppes of Kazakhstan
I got a real lesson in why the Huns, Tatars & Golden Horde were both nomads & ferocious warriors today. The plane flight from Astana the Gleaming to Almaty the Ancient took me over an incredible stretch of flat, brown steppe. I looked down on this from the...
The “Other” LaFontaine Makes an Appearance…
(In Forrest Gump voice: "We are not related.") I guess I shouldn't squeak too much about this: it has the words "Lust" and "LaFontaine" in it, so it's gotta be good, right?
Astana – Journo Professors
Astana - Journo Professors, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. These are the journalism professors from the university here in Astana, Kazakhstan, that were in my training session. I ran a little long - they didn't want to let me go -- the students & faculty are...
The Newsroom in Your Pocket Training Session at ONA 2009
Ask not for whom the Mooseinator tweets… Last Friday, I conducted a training session for the reporters attending the Online News Association’s national conference to demonstrate how to build the basic skills needed to cover a breaking news event using mobile...