The Wonder of the Narrative

Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of This American Life. It’s a radio show that comes on public radio’s WBEZ Chicago. I don’t live in Chicago, or anywhere else where it broadcasts, so I listen to the podcast on my daily commute. You can listen to their podcast either from iTunes or via their [...]

How will the new “Google phone” affect the news industry?

So news in the consumer electronics world went crazy yesterday after the announcement of a new smartphone that runs Android, Google’s new mobile operating system. Google wrote the software, and a company called HTC actually built the device. It’s being sold initially only for the T-Mobile network. The device, called the T-Mobile G1, will sell [...]

Clay Felker; testament to new media

Clay Felker died to day. The pioneer of the print magazine was immoralized by the New York Times in one of their classic obituary style articles, written in the only way the NY Times knows how. But, what fascinated me the most when reading about Felker’s life, was his persistence during the 60s to reinvent this [...]

Sprout is Flash for everyone else

Okay, I feel like I have been waiting a very long time for this. And now it finally has happened. Someone has built a completely Web-based Flash application over at http://sproutbuilder.com. This is a momentous occasion for me. I feel like over the last two years, I have been wishing for this very thing to well, [...]

Programming for the iPhone; what app do YOU want?

OK, here is a little tidbit a few people might not know about me. Back in my first year of college, I was a computer science major. Then, journalism stepped in the way. I was taking photos for the campus newspaper part-time, which seemed like a whole lot more fun than programming classes. So, one afternoon [...]