Enough griping about old media – maybe it’s time to get your press on! Newspaper Club is a new service, now in beta, that promises to let you make your own print newspapers online: You can make a 12 page newspaper using ARTHR, a simple tool we’ve built. ARTHR helps you lay out pictures and […]

Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg has announced a new service, VaultPress that is designed to meet the growing need for automated backups and security patches for WordPress self-hosted sites. Here’s how Mullenweg describes the service: The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely secure, regardless of what happens. […]

Blogging – and new media in general – has often been criticized as being derivative. Here are some stats, via the Nieman Journalism Lab, that may put that criticism in perspective: 9 out of ten mainstream news stories are copied. In the stories analyzed (from publications like Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, […]

YouTube has introduced a new feature – automatic Closed Captioning – and it’s starting to look like they may have brought All Your Base Are Belong To Us into a new decade. Automatic Closed-Captioning uses speech recognition technology to translated audio from videos into text. It’s a great idea – but it often has unintentionally […]

The Internet is now a more popular source of news than newspapers, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism. The internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, […]

Jesse Thomas designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010. It’s full of interesting facts – and some depressing ones, like the 200 billion spam messages sent via email per day.

Apple’s recently introduced iPad has been criticized by many analysts as being just a big iPod touch. A new survey, though, suggests that people are really interested in a handheld computer that’s basically a big iPod touch. RBC/Changewave found that 13% of the people they interviewed were very likely  or somewhat likely to buy an […]

Old Spice’s latest commercial, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, is awesome in a dozen different ways – but it’s also a great example of corporate viral video that works. How many ads get two million views in two weeks on YouTube? Old Spice doesn’t have to have to put a URL in their […]

WordPress.com – the popular free blog hosting service – went offline today, taking with it popular sites like TechCrunch, GigaOm and 9.2 million other blogs. The site was down close to two hours. No official announcement has been made on the cause for the outage. WordPress.com is the 19th most popular site in the world, […]

Dan Rayburn has published an interesting, but savage, critique of YouTube over at Business of Video. In it, he argues that YouTube is stifling innovation and couldn’t survive without Google’s deep pockets: YouTube didn’t contribute to the technology of the industry at all. They haven’t created any codecs, new delivery protocols, created any industry standards […]