Nearly 200 journalists, bloggers, innovators and technologists have signed up to attend the free-to-attend second national BarCamp NewsInnovation un-conference held this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Temple University in North Philadelphia. Last year, lots of attention came from the first national un-conference dedicated to news, information and journalism, and it was when [...]

I shared the rough curriculum I had established for working with a journalism club at a neighborhood school before my time there was cut short. Just a week after I took a full-time job and told the club’s adviser that I’d have to take a bit of a sabbatical from my time there, I wanted [...]

I use a lot of WordPress themes. Here are some I might like to give a go in 2010.

I pursued lots of advice in my young freelance career. A lot of it has been good. A lot of it has been repetitive. In fact, I’ve heard five pieces of advice perhaps more often than any others. Funny enough, they may be among the pieces of advice the ones I still have the most [...]

We may lose someday newspapers in their traditional form, but we’re seeing a flourishing of alternatives fill those lost pieces of pie. Some are more skeptical of how quickly we’ll be able to bring back the creation of that news, but through variation, experimentation and loyalty, it my well be done. I very much see [...]

Design and development types take fonts very seriously. They even make documentaries about them. By almost no one’s standards am I either. Still, I love a good fight over typeface. Why I’d really never fit the mold as a serious graphic designer, though, is because I’m not one to giggle at the standard set of [...]

Poynter curated a list of 100 things a journalist should never do. As these things tend to do, it became a rambling collections of do’s and don’ts, but it was interesting nonetheless. Ten stuck with me as among the most important. Strive for context rather than information. Information is plentiful, context is scarce. (@rsm4lsu) Journalists [...]

Update: See October coverage from Newsweek and N.J. Monthly. When the media history books (ha, I mean, media history e-reader files) look back at the beginnings of online hyperlocal news, there will be a clear battlegrounds. New Jersey. Gannet has gone big in the Garden State with its InJersey collective, and the New York Times [...]

If you’ve walked into 2010 with plans on becoming, remaining or sustaining a hyperlocal news venture, there is lots you should already know and have already read. Still, while thumbing through some links I thought were particularly important, I managed to find five stories from 2009 I think are most valuable. A Brief History of [...]

Earlier this month, I bought another year on this domain and began a third year posting here. Back in February, I had my 500th post and am just shy of my 700th now. In July, I launched the self-hosted version of this site, which has left quite a bit of Google juice over at the [...]