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f you've been around the Internet for any length of time, I'm sure you heard of Scott Bourne and Andy Ihnatko. Both can be found at the MY Digital Life blog and podcast -- at least until August 31, 2009. Scott and Andy have been doing a podcast and blog helping listeners manage their digital life for the past six
Bloggers beware the FTC is about to start watching what you say and failure to disclose that you have been given a product or paid to blog about a product or service could find themselves with a FTC violation. Disclaimer: Geek News Central and it's writers will always disclaim in the blog post if a product has been provided by
There are many articles comparing the pros and cons of physical print news versus the online/blogging news. The following lists are not pros and cons but what each group has that the other side wants. What could happen with the merging of the two? Thanks to Tech Crunch for stirring my brain. What Newspapers Have and Bloggers Want/Need: Bloggers have
Hello, my name is Tom Newman (aka Fogview) and I’m the newest blogger on Geek News Central. You may ask what are my qualifications and what will I be bringing to the table. Well, I’m a geek and have been involved with tech for over 30 years. I’m a hardware/software engineer and have been involved with the micro computer revolution (that’s what we called it back in the “old days”) since it first began. I started out as a Test Engineer integrating a Data General Nova 2 minicomputer into the factory manufacturing process of the company where I worked (Diablo Systems). I spotted an article in Radio Electronics magazine talking about a home-brew computer, Mark-8, and decided to build my own Intel 8008 microcomputer. I ordered the circuit boards from author of the article and scrounged all the parts and built my bare-bones system. I finally had my very own computer at home! I hand-coded a simple program in assembly language and amazed myself by having a set of blinking LEDs marching to the beat of my very first 8008 program. I had written pretty large programs at work that could control Diablo HyType Printers, but there was something uplifting about my very own computer that could blink some LEDs.
Someone has to pay the bill for journalism. Whether it be in print, radio, video, or online, someone has to pay. There is no such thing as a free lunch. What has paid the bill for news so far? Advertising, advertising, and more advertising. Everything from full page ads to 4 by 6 ads to the classifieds. Everything has been
Blogger Louis Gray has been studying the referrals to his blog and has noticed that getting linked to by a large blog site or influential blogger doesn't drive the same level of traffic as it used to. The move in traffic generation has been to the aggregators like Techmeme, Reddit, Digg etc. There is also a large shift towards readers
If you have not updated in a while you may want to have a look at your templates and upgrade your installs. If you read the linked article don’t skip the comments.