Can vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin not think of a newspaper or magazine that she reads? Does she only read them online? I’m not sure, and Palin isn’t saying. Palin does have a journalism degree from the University of Idaho, though, and did work as a sports reporter for KTUU in Anchorage. Palin and Joe [...]

The Grand Island Independent, a small paper in Nebraska, has been on Twitter for almost a year. In the last month, @theindependent has more than doubled its number of followers. Web editor Stephanie Romanski tells how: I turned off The Independent’s Twitterfeed on Sept. 17th on the advice of @robquig. Instead I have been tweeting [...]

The Post-Dispatch laid off 20 people on Friday, 17 from the newsroom. It was unexpected — 18 people were laid off less than a month ago. To say there’s a feeling of defeat in the newsroom is an understatement. Adding to they mayhem, our guild contract is being renegotiated and the layoffs started a couple [...]

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain debated at the University of Mississippi on Friday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Obama said vs. what McCain said and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the [...]

Google has a new toy in the lab: In Quotes. In Quotes finds and compares, uh, quotes from stories linked to from Google News. Want to know what presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain said about Iraq? Oil? The bailout? Design? Bananas? (They haven’t said anything about bananas. Yet.) Cycle through quotes, or hit [...]