For those of you who couldn’t make it to Sunday’s #collegejourn chat, this is how it went down (or read the full transcript): Hour one: College newspapers face weak ad revenue. Solutions? USA Today wrote an article about the “all-too-real-world-lesson” that college newspaper ...

Google has recently launched the TipJar, a site that offers money-saving tips for people in this recession. “That's why we created Tip Jar , an experiment powered by Google Moderator that we hope will help you discover the most effective ways to save money. There are lots of money-saving tips...

The other day a vendor called to ask if I could verify which of its competitors were or were not going to AIIM/On Demand. They seemed to be considering a last-minute reduction in booth size, bringing less stuff, or maybe even bailing all together. They weren’t the only ones. I’ve been ge...

Image via Wikipedia In the midst of a good article for student journalists about the perils of “e-reporting,” Mike Heistand of the Student Press Law Center notes the following: Despite its growing popularity, some veteran journalists scoff at interviews and research conducted entirely by...

sxc.hu I’ve lost count of the number of newspapers which have gone under since the beginning of the year. We’re not even through the first quarter of the year and yet, many (except those in the business who are desperately staying on top of every single death)  have simply stopped count...

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format. This week: TechCrunch Is Full of What? Social Networking Attracts 75% of Online Europeans - comScore Zcapes Launches Microblogging/Activity Stream Service For Mobile Web Baby B...

Early on Tuesday, Apple slapped an unannounced release of Safari 4 Beta on the table, and the entire Internet subsequently went bananas. We’ve taken it for a test drive and right off the cuff it feels natural to compare Safari’s upgrades to the features in Google Chrome. In fact, even af...

We've talked here before about the reality of home makeover shows.   How too much happens for the good of the television viewing audience and not enough for the people giving up their time, home, and personal secrets. Our Los Angeles friends in the "business" work hard to turnover an entire room ma...

Update: Dave Zatz reports that Hulu has also asked Boxee to remove the Hulu content, and Hulu's CEO Jason Kilar writes about why on the Hulu blog: Doing Hard Things: Our content providers requested that we turn off access to our content via the Boxee product, and we are respecting their wi...

The boss-mans learned a important lesson about other people's feelings when he called Wii Fit a wee fad. Indignant Wii Fitters ultrabombed his inbox to say not everyone who "plays" it looks like this. That's right, many of them were in much worse shape when they first stepped on the balance board. B...