Creating a Banner Image for Your Social Profiles

Here’s an example of a banner image, created for Storify. This example uses a variety of quickly-chosen and lightly edited images to fit the radically horizontal image space on Storify. Damn. Things are getting heavy. Journalists are being attacked by paid...

Ancient Monasteries of Bahir Dar: Part 1

Scattered throughout the vast Bahir Dar Lake are seven sacred islands, each home to an ancient monastery, where monks still live in seclusion and contemplation The lake is the source of the Blue Nile (more pictures on that in a bit), and just getting to the islands...

We Need Social Media Janitors

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m as guilty of assigning myself a made-up title as anyone. But c’mon – “Digital Alchemist” is pretty cool. And it’s a nice shorthand for what I do – which is to research, study, broadcast via social...