Kevin Cobb, a brilliant page designer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (and blogger for Watch This Now), won the SFSS’s designer of the year Reader’s Choice Page Design of the Year! I had the honor of working with Kevin back at The Times of Northwest Indiana, where he regularly abused staplers, kept us in stitches, [...]
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During the (very strange) budget meeting Monday, someone questioned why a story on MySpace was big news — more important, why it warranted a position on A1. I tried to explain that MySpace was the largest social networking site. Proof from Hitwise: • MySpace has 5.86 percent of the total market share. Google is No. [...]
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Most. Perfect. Vacation. Ever. Air and sea show. The beach, the ocean, the sun. A cookout. Christina Aguilera concert. Elbo Room. And that was just one day! There was also fireworks, underwear parties, street parties, great restaurants, a tour of the Sun-Sentinel, bombing raids and a lot of sun. There is really no way to [...]
ODDS & ENDS • I learned how to find GPS coordinates from a Google/Mapquest/MapPoint map! I’m at latitude 38.633 longitude -90.2028. Vital information, I’m sure. • I also found out you can trade in an iPod. After less than a year, mine was d-e-a-d, and the genius at the genius bar couldn’t revive it. (Shouldn’t [...]
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- Filed under: beer, blogging, comedian, Google, GPS, iPod, Kevin, lifecasting, maps, MyDeathSpace, predictions, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Times of Northwest Indiana, YouTube
