It depends on how you measure it, but I think I failed my 2011 New Year’s Resolution. It was, if you recall, to Love Thy Blog. I promised to blog regularly, weekly even, but if you check the record you’ll see I only managed a meager 17 posts last year. Continue reading
Having a bit of fun with the dog and thought I’d share. That’s about all there is to it.
Holy Cow! Where did October come from? A better question, where did September go?
Ode to the broken New Year’s resolution, which (if I recall correctly) was for me to ‘love thy blog.’
But, perhaps, the hipsters of the web can offer a bit of redemption. For the true hipster would not settle on an app that merely mimics old photographic methods. Nay. They would seek out the vintage products on eBay and the like, piece together the necessary dust-covered, antiquated optics and shill out mommy and daddy’s hard earned money to have it processed over at E-6 on the westside of town.
Fortunate for me and my busy schedule, I’m not hip enough to be a hipster. Rather I’ll provide fuel to the fire and offer up a rather simplistic – yet helpful for the task ahead – infographic.
Lastly, it’s worth noting this is a rip-off from the brillant blogger minds over at 1000memories, and to a lesser extent the KEH Camera Blog where I originally stumbled the piece. At any rate, give credit where credit is do and enjoy the visual.
(Originally published with Facebook Notes)
I’m taking a leap of faith here. I’m giving Facebook Pages the boot.
I know it’s sad especially since I have this awesome www.facebook.com/multimediajournalist URL, but sometimes you have to cut your loses and do a little experimenting.
In some ways Facebook’s journalism initiative goes against Zuckerberg’s own philosophies about privacy on the Internet. The push for more journalists to use Facebook as a resource may have been a good one, but I’m still not convinced I actually NEED a Facebook page.
More than ever journalists are becoming public figures. We’re not quite there yet (and hopefully we never will be), but it’s hard to argue the modern journo’s role isn’t more public. Gone are the days of snail mail ‘letters to the editor’ and hiding being behind fancy bylines printed in Old English type. Continue reading
