'We're Eliminating the position of...'

Perfect thought:

"I must concede, too, I had reached a point where I routinely was embarrassed by the product I worked for, and if you find yourself feeling that way, maybe it’s time to go. I had been there when The Sun was a good little paper, and it was hard for me to watch it slide into nothingness."

Are you a right brain or left brain person?

Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened. What she learned is considerable.

Photography firsts

Here's some photo trivia for you....

Quality vs. Quantity

Chuck Fadley of the Miamia Herald and Howard Owens of Digital Publishing at Gatehouse Media have a discussion about online multimedia and video on the Northern Short Course website. Haven't had a chance to watch yet, but should be interesting to say the least...

On My Mind

Photog Yoon S. Byun started an interesting weekly photo blog for the Boston Globe.

Found via Litherland's Redlights & Redeyes

Do The Test

How aware are you? Take this test and see....

ImprovEverywhere at it again

Found a new video of the Iprov group up to their antics on Will Video for Food.

What's Popurls?

Just about anything that is getting lots of traffic on the web. Flickr, YouTube, digg, readdit....Shastakovitch ! Too many to list. Just click over there.

Also the source for this Journalism url compilation.

Something better than JL's Blog of Blogs

A site that has all the journalism info you could ever want. Holy crapola

Found this via Will Sullivan's Journerdism blog.

Hulu to go LIVE

Looks like the convergence will get a can of Monster tomorrow. NBC Universal and Fox venture Hulu, which has full-length television programing and movies streaming online, goes live on March 12.

"Hello, Comcast. I'd like to cancel my cable television."

Kids and Convergence

They say multitasking is bad for your brain. That it leads to difficulty in completing tasks. Well, if that's the case the next generation won't get anything done based on this study of teens and early 20s using the Internet as they watch TV.

TV will learn what newspapers are living

And they will learn it much faster than we all thought. TV execs can send the love letters to Steve Jobs and his AppleTV. Seems that people are migrating to the web to watch their beloved television shows in droves. The catch? TV folks don't want too many peeps going to the web, there's more ad revenue on the tele than on the web. Exactly what newspapers are going through.

"Our challenge with all these ventures is to effectively monetize them so that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies,” Mr. Zucker said, calling it the No. 1 challenge for the industry.

Tracking searches & views

The NYTimes and COMscore let the cat out of the bag on the future of internet advertising. It's all about what you are interested in and what you search for. All the major players – Yahoo, News Corp. (think MySpace), AOL, etc. – have some serious data to mine and throw unique ads on your pages. They then get to charge advertisers accordingly.

Wikipedia – The difficulty of being ad free

Read this on the LATimes. Makes me wonder how many will be able to survive sustainability on the internet without advertising. If advertising is the only way to pay for things and most of those advertisers can generate their own advertising online for the most part, it could be difficult to find a balance.

David Simon on 'The Wire'

An interview with the former Baltimore Sun reporter about the end of the 60 episode series on HBO. He has some interesting takes on the journalism biz and how blind the "trained" folks that are supposed to see and report everything.

MultimediaShooter Dies

Gotta love stupid lazy, bored, zit-faced brats. Looks like hackers have taken down a decent site of free-flowing info and a sense of community in this jacked up world of media. Thanks jerks.

Aevum Photo

A new co-op of photographers launched their goods. Lots of images pushing the edges of photojournalism.

Found via MultimediaShooter