The important overriding credo is that (newsrooms of the future) will deliver the news in whatever way the community craves and is economically feasible, including online video, audio, print, online, mobile, TV or radio. Why is it taking so long for that future to get here? ODDS & ENDS • Ms. Pac-Man for your iPod! [...]

I’ve been preoccupied by the new love of my life: Flash 8. I don’t know what I’m going to do when the free trial ends in 27 days … OK, since I’ve been very nerdy lately (Hello, I just professed my love for a computer program. It doesn’t get much nerdier than that.), I should [...]

Today’s lesson: Airplanes do not have steering wheels. Despite what reporters and an editor may say. An airplane has a yoke. (And it’s not a yolk, as that editor tried to “fix.”) A helicopter has a cyclic. (For an admittedly juvenile chuckle, check out the definition of cyclic.) What brought that on? A 78-year-old grandmother [...]