David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Creating a Banner Image for Your Social Profiles
Here's an example of a banner image, created for Storify. This example uses a variety of quickly-chosen and lightly edited images to fit the radically horizontal image space on Storify. Damn. Things are getting heavy. Journalists are being attacked by paid...
Embedding Infographic Example for Kiev Students
This is just a test of an embed code... by Lemon.ly. Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually.
eBook Publishing Options
How journalists can build their own news/publishing business I was asked by my students if there were ways that they could publish their stories, videos and audios, without having to give up control to media companies that really aren't all that interested in...
Google’s ‘In-Depth Articles’ Feature: What Journalists Need to Know
...back from summer vacation, and leaping into the school year. Well, trying to leap, anyway. I mentioned this development in digital news to my journalism classes at Annenberg, and figured I might want to expand a bit more on it, and provide some links to related...
Unfortunate Juxtapositions
Some times, there is a bit of a lag between the loading of the headline on HuffPo and the photo. Not always as humorous as it is here.
Lessons from a C47 Pilot: the Core Trait of an Entrepreneur
This made me think of an encounter I had with a guy back when the job titles “Entrepreneur” did not have the suffused halo of glory around it that it does now. Looking back, this short conversation was one of the transformative experiences in my life. It’s what has driven me to consistently take the road less traveled in my career.