Not the page — the iPhone! (And I don’t care what they say, BFD does not stand for “best front design.”)

It looks like the Bancroft family (or enough of them at least) are on board with selling Dow Jones to News Corp. What does this mean for the nonjournalist? (Following AP style on that “non” word, even though it looks crazy.) Well, Rupert Murdoch is the man behind Fox News. And MySpace. (Not the original [...]

Text messaging conference calls: It was probably only a matter of time. I definitely see uses for it though. (And not just because “feeling stupid” is offered as a reason for a conference call.)

Emoticons have “come of age.” Guilty as charged. Although I’ve been using ‘em more than five years … And I did delete one from a work e-mail the other day — it tried to sneak in. (I love the last line of the story. I won’t give it away — so go read it.)

The Sun-Times has launched a home-search site. (Why don’t I learn of these things from someone who works at the Sun-Times? Hmm.) The search is broader than Chicago — it includes all of the Sun-Times News Group sites. I will learn to script a similar site. I have a St. Louis project all picked out, [...]