Entries from April 2008

18 April, 2008

Theory

I’ve never been to school specifically for this thing called journalism. I thought about it, but I only tolerated my undergraduate education from a formality stand-point. At the time that the decision was made, writing and conducting interviews seemed like something better learned by experience, at least for me.
Despite my lack of a higher-higher degree [...]

14 April, 2008

Free

Just read a great article here at Howard Owen’s blog discussing the use of free technology and newspapers. His story focuses on using Yahoo’s Pipes service to scrape their own newspaper’s syndication feed for related content. It’s an ingenious idea and one I probably wouldn’t have come up with on my own.
I’ll explain how I found the [...]