This NBC12 field reporter thought a quick shot with a friendly camel would be easy. Sometimes the easy assignments turn into the more interesting ones. I like how the cameraman was able to keep filming and help her with one hand…and how she asked if he was still rolling. Anything for the shot, right?
Twitter Feed Word Cloud
I love me some word clouds. They’re a great quick way to show what people are talking about and can give you a good insight to what’s “hot” or “trending”. Neoformix has put together this awesome tool to show us just that for Twitter accounts. This is a fun a interesting way to see just [...]
Evolution of Storage
Remember the simpler times, when your mailbox (your physical mailbox) was filled with AOL CDs and floppy disks? Oh those were the days. A 3 1/2 would hold 1.44 MB…oh man, imagine trying to use one of those now. Well here is an awesome chart showing the evolution of storage and how far we’ve come, [...]
Catch Me If You Can: Bin Laden Edition
I’m a huge fan of the movie Catch Me If You Can about the con artist (and fugitive) Frank William Abagnale, Jr., who was played by Leonardo Dicaprio. I’m wondering when they’ll be making the movie of Bin Laden and who will be playing him. Well the folks over at Good Magazine have put together this [...]
Flickr User Model
Flickr is the #1 stop for the average “photographer”. It’s easy to use, free and has the best options. It’s a fantastic service for the casual weekend photog. Well one such user (SoldierAnt) made this awesome graphic showing the various components of Flickr and how they are utilized. [click image to view full-size]
Google: Facts & Figures
Google is the largest search engine and a force to be reckoned with. They’ve got their virtual foot in almost every door. From the coupon game to their recent addition of their cloud music service, they do whatever they want, when they want to. Check out this great graphic from Pingdom which show all the [...]
Let’s Hope He Got The Position
For all the time, work, money and effort, Christopher Knight put into this great commercial, here’s hoping he got the position at Rockingham County School Board of Education. I guess it just goes to show you that when it comes to advertising (and most other things too), you get what you pay for.
Awesome Browser Statistics of Late
This is an amazing interactive graph of most of the major browsers and their growing (or shrinking) influence from 2002 – 2009. I know it’s not giving you the data from current times, but this showcases how they came to be what they are now. Click through to see the cool concept by Axiis.
FOX News Promises To Be More Truthful
With FOX News constantly getting lambasted for allegedly being biased and not necessarily telling the truth, they’ve started a new policy to be more honest. In one of their first forays down this road, they’ve added captions of exactly what the guest and host are saying…and here is a screencap of that. Looks just about [...]
Profile of a Twitter User
Twitter is fast becoming the source of peoples everyday “news” source. But there are many different breeds of your typical Tweeter. From the business-minded to the casual reader, the gossip gal, etc. Well here is a nifty graphic that showcases a few of the more popular. [click image to view full-size]
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My 89-Year-Old Grandma Loves Playing Solitaire on iPad
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Two Main Reasons Empire Avenue is Worthwhile
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Wow, they only have 42 of ‘em? (pic)
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Journalists Wonder What’s Better on Twitter – “First” or “Correct”
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Using Pics with Tweets to Engage People and Attract Followers
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Hi I'm John Boitnott. Welcome to my blog! Here I talk about how old media is coping with the Web. I write for Soshable.com, build buzz for sites and advise writers on how to make their work more likely to be shared online. I have worked at Venturebeat, Village Voice Media and NBC. Before that I held several positions at various TV newsrooms in the state of California, from 1994 to 2009.
