Have a crack-berry? Can’t live without it? Well, come 2009, your dependence on technology is about to get worse. On January 24, 2009, the FCC will allow the winners of the 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction to begin to use the airwaves to distribute information over the Internet. You will soon be able to get [...]

The end of the old media dominance does not mean an end to quality content. It means future media will take a shift from being printed on old media, such as paper, to being published on online and fed to other devises such as your TiVo or mobile devise.
One of the largest untapped markets today [...]

Sure, newspapers are not dead yet, but lets put it this way: The meteorite is not that far away.
Journalism is not known for its quick adaptation to new forms of media. Some news organizations do not even have websites, and to the coming generations, if you do not have a web presence, you simply [...]

I came across one of the coolest web tools this week. It’s a simple Firefox extension that lets you look at the CSS, HTML and JavaScript found on the web. It also shows how those individual web files fits into the site’s file structure. For instance, while looking at some of the news [...]

Last weekend I set up a closed (invitation only) social network for a group a bunch of my friends started just out of college. The group, Kent Photographer’s Association, is a group of about 160 photojournalists who have, or still attend Kent State University. After six years, our group is starting to outgrow its primary [...]

Here are a couple other reasons why I think YouTube will change broadcast. It allows users to reskin the YouTube player to fit the style of their personal websites, and it allows its users to track the web traffic from the videos they upload.

In a few months, YouTube plans on catching up with other online services and allow their users to broadcast their own channel live on the Internet. Not only that, but they will be able to do so in higher resolution as Adobe upgrades to Flash Player 9.
Today’s Herald Sun, an Australian paper, reports one of [...]

Every year, the White House News Photographers Association hosts a photojournalism contest showcasing some of the best photojournalism in the industry. Although the organization is based inside the Washington, D.C. beltway, some members still find opportunities to travel outside the U.S. to cover news stories all over the world. This year, the international news coverage [...]

The documetary I produced last year called “Homefront, ” a special hosted by Bob Edwards, will be repeating on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 8 and 11 p.m. on MHz Networks. Check it out if you have not seen it yet. It will air in Washington, D.C. and on these networks in several cities around the [...]

I had four hours of sleep last night. The night before, I had three, the night before that, just three. I just completed my fourth day, I have accumulated more than 80 hours of work. As one of my documentary subjects said, “I am beyond the point of exhaustion, I am to the point of [...]