Your kind and gentle hostess here at NewTechZilla has taken a bit of time off from our endeavor here because the inevitable finally happened. I was downsized at my newspaper and according to my publishers, it came down to money. Scott was very kind in letting me go through the six degrees of seperation and [...]
The Alien News Network And A Link Dump
Been a crazy few weeks for Scott and I here at NewsTechZilla. I have been downsized as predicted and he’s been carrying much of the load. I wish to thank him and get back to bidness. Hopefully things will get back to normal. Let’s scoot around these innertubes, shall we? Reading Online Comments Shouldn’t Be [...]
Bringing The News With Incentives
Tara George writes that one college news organization is bringing the news to where college kids hang out. And that would be Facebook. Any college newspaper editor will tell you it’s a challenge to get students off Facebook and reading the news. However, the University of Minnesota’s student newspaper,The Minnesota Daily, may have found a [...]
Almost Famous
Not bad advice at all from Seth Godin. Being a familiar name takes you miles closer to closing a sale. People like to buy from companies they’ve heard of. It turns out that this is an overlooked benefit of banner ads. Banner ads are fairly worthless in terms of generating clickthroughs… you have to trick [...]
On Blogging
If you have never read Stephen King’s “On Writing” you should because not only does it talk about technique but it also talks about the passion and the joy of writing. How To Make My Blog breaks down how this book can also help you with blogging. My favorite is this one: Do it for [...]
Quote Of The Day
From John Robinson on newspapers. We aren’t really supposed to be popular. We are supposed to chronicle the life of the community and help people to participate best in their democracy. Sometimes, these things make you unpopular.
100 Free WordPress Themes For 2009
Smashing Magazine has 100 new themes for those of you who might be inclined to change it up sometime. High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do [...]
She Is Right You Know
Cathy at Domestic Psychology has a winner. I won’t spoil it for you, just go there. And she was spot on about the new Star Trek too. Just saying.
Evolving Because We Don’t Have A Choice
The news continues to be bad for many journalists so I keep trying to find the good ones. As a person that is still on the cusp of whether or not she will have a job by the end of the year, it’s disheartening to always see bad news. I had trouble finding any good [...]
Preparing For Life After Newspapers
I’m one of the lucky ones because I still have a job. So many journalists right now have been laid off, furloughed, bought out or are sitting on the cusp that it’s hard to keep up with the magnitude of it all. When this is your chosen profession, for some of us, it’s like waiting [...]