Another charmin’ mobile app: potty train your phone
After everything you can rate, here comes the kicker: public toilets. This mobile application sponsored by Procter&Gamble’s Charmin brand combines location-aware services (the “you are here” type) with a collaboration tool (think Wikipedia for toilets). The concept is so simple that it is, well.. charming.
The power of the (fashion forward) network
How did I end up at a fashion show, wearing a shirt by an award-winning, rising star designer–and no, I wasn’t on the runway? True story: my networkes led me right onto what could have been the ‘pièce de résistance’ of the collection. by the hand, literally. and that is my off-line network.
Crashing on Twitter
Talk about Twitter as an emerging tool for breaking news reporting… first Mumbay and now this: plane crash play-by-play.
You edit: CNN reporter sees Russia from Alaska
CNN’s Gary Tuchman went all the way to the part of Alaska from when one can actually see Russia but the story sounds so slanted that it invites some copy-editing.
Shine the floor, Teresa!
So, it turns out that while we in Cuba were being brought up on Soviet apple sauce and shown socialist-block cartoons (a.k.a “munequitos rusos”), in India they were also watching movies from the USSR and, surprise surprise, Cuba.
Nobody Cares About Your Blog
A colleague tells me in an email that he cares about my blog. That’s a reference to a phrase I use as a shorcut to summarize my feelings about user generated content.
The 80s are calling… or maybe the end is near
What do a last minute invitation to a 70s/80s-themed party and the doomsday predictions for 2012 have in common?
Listening to cockpit conversations
Meet The Aviatrix. She flies, she blogs, and she has inadvertently done away with an old notion involving bad news and journalism.
Political Jibjab alert
The JibJab brothers are at it again, joining the political season with a new animated parody. And I had to find out about it nowhere other than the “old” media. Good old CNN, keeping me cool.
Amy’s Newspaper Challenge
My friend Amy Webb is angry at the newspaper industry and its seemingly contstant slashing of jobs and resources. She is now countering the wave of “tanking industry” stories with a challenge of her own. Being a child of TV, I do not yearn for the feel of paper in my hands as I know many people do. Frankly, I’d rather be browsing non-linearly than struggling with an unruly stack of newsprint. However, I do see the value that the newspaper culture can still offer to journalism.
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