Canada's National Post uses "Coveritlive" to cover Federal Budget

NationalPost.com of Canada covered the Canadian Federal Budget Day with a live blog, including tweets from citizens as well as coverage by Chris Boutet, John Ivison in Ottawa and Kelly McParland in Toronto. As a non-Canadian, the nuances of the political parties and editorial...

The Softside of Election Day in the USA

The New York Times features an evolving and animated tag cloud for politicos. You can view what everybody is feeling, what McCain supporters feel, or what Obama supporters feel. It is sort of nebulous now (11 a.m. CST) but I bet it will heat up as the polls close.

ARPHID Alert Mixes Old Testament with New Tech But it is Still a Threat to Pr...

RFID tags are radio frequency identification tags, which are sometimes referred to on the Web as "ARPHIDs." If you are a citizen of the USA, you either have one of these in your passport now, or you will have one in your new passport. In Europe (sorry, not sure about Canada)...

Value of "In Sickness and In Health" Not High On McCain's Personal List

The Daily Mail does a detailed series of interviews with McCain associates and friends about McCain's first wife, Cindy, who was injured in a car crash which changed her appearance, and seems to have led to their divorce. I was surprised to see that Nancy Regan was surprised...

Graphic Novels, Let's Just Call Them Comics, Do Science

I didn't write the squib below, but I would have, if I had found all these good cartoons. I am currently recommending Howard Zinn's " A People's History of American Empire" done as a comic by Mike Konopacki (Author) and Paul Buhle (Author) but here are a sheft of science...

News, as in details, of Code Pink Protests at RNC

Sure, MSM reports that "protesters" get hassled or arrested. But since dissent is one of key rights as Americans, it is better reporting to add details about who is protesting, and what their issues are. Code Pink's complaints are detailed and nuanced, and challenge simple...

Homework for next week

"Special ReportBeyond BlogsThe June 2008 issue of Business Week is so good that I would almost subscribe to it. The irony here, is that it is the online features, including a slideshow and podcast, and the convenience of all the links, that really make this issue a standout....

Online Community tips and observations from MyTopiacafe.com

Good advice. I think of my community like a party where you have invited your kids and their friends, and the great-aunts are there, too. "   1. Know your base. Understand your key constituents -- their age, where they shop, how many kids they have, etc. Tailor your...

Psychographics of Social Networkers revealed

From Socially Isolated to Stay-at-home Moms, to Upscale Grays, this is a quick and interesting read about how advertisers are waking and making sense of social networking as a potential way to snag customers."Simmons Research, an Experian company, has chronicled the...

File under "Uses for Twitter"

"Arrington was complaining that his Comcast Internet service was inexplicably down. Eliason reached out to help, and Comcast soon dispatched a team to Arrington’s house to fix his Internet connection. It was, Eliason says, a turning point, but not in quite the way you’d...

E-paper edging closer to everyday use

This paper uses "compounds" that are sensitive to various wavelengths of light and change color and eventually disappear. So, you could print out something to read on the train on the way to work, and then print the evening paper to read on the way home. That is my...

Interaction index being developed by 20 something journalist

Following up on a Bivings Report from 2006, Joanna Geary moves toward a way of quantifying or at least visually comparing the interactivity of news sites. Very interesting."The study is based on the 2006 study of American newspapers by the Bivings Report. Most of the...