Category | New Media

Tax-Day Tweetup

Posted on 07 April 2009 by floor9.com

WHERE: Appalachian Brewing Company, Second Floor (Abbey Bar)
WHEN: Wed, April 15 2009 @ 7pm (till ???)
WHAT: Central PA Tweetup / blogger gathering
On the third Wednesday of every month, a bunch of us get together at ABC on Cameron Street for food, brew, and general socialization-driven mayhem.  We’re a casual bunch, and these events are anything [...]

Anonymity on the Internet: Part 2

Posted on 28 February 2009 by floor9.com

While digging for followup material for my previous post regarding on the matter, I came across this article today in the Washington Post:
The Maryland Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling and ordered that NewsZap.com, an online forum run by Independent Newspapers, does not have to disclose the identities of forum participants who engaged [...]

An Open Letter To My Stalker

Posted on 25 February 2009 by Jersey

Dear Stalker,
When I got your first package in the mail, I have to admit that I was somewhat flattered. Maybe even intrigued a little. But certainly not turned on by the contents of the thirty pages you tore out of a Penthouse erotic novel. Don’t get me wrong- I’ve got a seasoned palate. But the [...]

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How I want to redefine my role, and the reader’s role, in the newspaper

Posted on 06 January 2009 by Daniel Victor

Once the equipment arrives, I’ll be starting in a new position at The Patriot-News as a mobile journalist, or mojo.
What that means is, correctly, still to be determined. We do know it’ll involve video, still photography, print stories and a lot of updates for the Web. We know I’ll have a laptop and an aircard, [...]

Thursday at the Online News Association conference: “I think I’m following you”

Posted on 12 September 2008 by Daniel Victor

(For more on ONA as it’s happening, check for Tweets here. And I’ll be updating Twitter myself throughout the day. This is a quick, non-exhaustive recap as I don’t have much time before I need to catch my metro.)
Among the bloggers/Twitter users I’ve long talked to or read online and finally got to meet in [...]

Site Outage

Posted on 03 September 2008 by jerseym

Today is the day!
It’s like moving day, innit?
I’m transferring my domain and hosting to a new host and registrar and, with that, will come the required site outage for a few hours to a full day.
So…if you happen to stalk stop by here at all in the next day or so and don’t see my [...]

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Make Blogging 33% Better

Posted on 03 September 2008 by floor9.com

Not really, but this would easily be the single best invention ever to hit the Internet since ethernet:
YouTube Comment Snob
Basically, YCS blocks comments that are too stupid to live.  I’m not talking about comments that you may or may not disagree with; I’m talking about comments that should’ve been aborted long before they ever came [...]

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