David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
If the numbers don’t lie – what shall we put above the fold?
When clicks drive coverage, what happens to hard news stories? Are we doomed to "hamster wheel journalism"? Is the future only listicles and kitteh pictures? There's an interesting discussion shaping up - one that I've seen coming for quite some time. In an excellent...
Mr. Mitchell’s Opus
Readings from “The Light on the Coast†My very first case study on best practices in journalism was about Dave Mitchell and the saga of the tiny Point Reyes Light. It was a multimedia piece – which, back in 2005, was a real Big Deal for the Online Journalism...
Gawker’s Nick Denton: “Privacy has never really existed”
Thought-provoking take in a Playboy interview of Gawker Media's Nick Denton, one of the most-hated men on the internet. Also, one of the most successful. His premise may be a little self-serving, in light of his whole net worth being based on prying into people's...
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...
Embedding Infographic Example for Kiev Students
This is just a test of an embed code... by Lemon.ly. Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually.
eBook Publishing Options
How journalists can build their own news/publishing business I was asked by my students if there were ways that they could publish their stories, videos and audios, without having to give up control to media companies that really aren't all that interested in...