Archive for the 'Internet' category
Mt. St. Helens Anniversary Online Poll: Which natural disaster would you most rather have kill you?
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Mt. St. Helens blew up 30 years ago today. I remember putting a bandana over my face and sweeping ash from the sidewalk of my parents’ Portland home.
Would you rather die in a volcano eruption, a tsunami, an earthquake, a flood, a hurricane or a tornado?
Mt. St. Helens blew up 30 years ago today. [...]
Taking care of @ColoradoTweets
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Today the COTweeters group-tweet list (where anyone can send their tweets to the group, and the whole group gets them) succumbed to spam-bots. It had been getting worse and worse in the past four weeks.
The bot-spammers are now winning over on COTweets, so I went and created a new Colorado group-tweet list, ColoradoTweets, that [...]
On internet nastiness
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Long quote here froma good article about what gets rewarded online and what that results in:
You simply can’t have a system which rewards nastiness over niceness and which offers no consequences for those who commit cowardly anonymous attacks and then act surprised when people don’t know where to draw the line. And if it carries [...]
My awesome list of links is now on twitter.
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
I keep a collection (now more than 150 strong) of links to things I think are awesome. These links are the best of the random stuff I run across on the internet. Now you can follow my list of awesome links on twitter. If you don’t have twitter and do have a web feed reader, [...]
7 indications you might not be an internet noob anymore:
Monday, October 6th, 2008
…gleaned from my experiences working in an internet-inexperienced newsroom…
You’re not afraid to type a URL in the address bar of a web browser.
You know what “URL,” “address bar,” and “web browser,” mean.
You’ve used a browser that doesn’t have “Explorer,” “MSN,” or “AOL” in its name.
You know how to copy and paste a URL (From the [...]
Adam’s new college and pro-sports aggregator site: Sportsify
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The most successful web geek I’ve known personally, Adam Howell, launched another site. It’s his first Django-powered site, and which for no legitimate reason makes me feel a little proud inside (when we worked together at the Winston-Salem Journal, Adam started down the Ruby on Rails path at about the same time I started down [...]
Random semi-sweet / mostly awesome photos and stuff from the interwebs
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Holy shit this is a good strawberry.
Three things, three videos about Tetris:
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
First, before we go all-tetris here: Tonight the Colorado Avalanche got swept, which marks the third pro sport team in Denver to exit with a sweep in a row (Rockies got swept out of the World Series in October, Nuggets swept in the first round of the playoffs this week, and Avs in the second [...]
HappyJournalist
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
So, last night (Sunday) I announced the launch of HappyJournalist on my online journalism blog. The site’s a response to the AngryJournalist confessional, and so far, so good — 24 people have said what makes them happy, and hey, Gawker picked it up too.
I launched the site just in time, too — a Missouri j-school [...]
