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The WSJ is reporting initial profits of $2.4 million from advertisers to their iPad version.  Trendy profits? could be.  It is new technology and so everyone wants to be part of it.  But if we step back for a second the question is if advertisers that paid $400k each -according to a recent businessinsider.com article- [...]

I just produced four videos on Digital Journalism including how-to’s on: Streaming, Web-videos and WordPress.  Enjoy [more here]

Your Thoughts Follow Patricio Vote 4 Patricio UPDATE, Jun.26. 2010 NAHJ Convention, Denver, Co: Thank you members, friends and colleagues.  With a majority of votes I have been elected and will be serving in the best interest of our membership.  And we’re hitting the ground running.  Saludos, Patricio ============ It’s time… and Your Vote will [...]

In today’s Digital landscape the way we produce and deliver news changes almost on a daily basis.   Recently, I spent a week at USC’s KDMC, Knight Digital Media Center as part of an entrepreneurial journalism fellowship, and talked about many things, from monetizing, to marketing, to content generation, and branding.    And as part of my [...]

Mark Fiore cartoonist with the San Francisco Chronicle has won the Pulitzer prize for his series of animated cartoon videos at SFGate.com “His biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary” Pulitzer Press Release “Fiore was competing against Tony Auth of The Philidelphia [...]

The list is out… NY Times’ David Pogue is at it again with a brief basic but insightful review of the latest and best Digital still cameras almost everyone could afford. From the new touch screens, to special effects… like the ability to paste one picture onto another right on your camera, to a sensor [...]

Timing is everything…. Bodelin Technologies creator of the ProPrompter announced today a cool portable prompter for small DV cameras using the iPad!!  The new device, the PorPrompter HDi, is to be released this month at NAB 2010 in Vegas. “Our award winning ProPrompter HD now holds the revolutionary iPad, safe and secure, goes anywhere your [...]

Latest news report that about 700,000 people have already bought the iPad. My only wish… When is Apple going to get on board with Flash. Just like the iPhone, the iPad would show pretty much everything except for Flash applications,  and that means no Flash video players like YouTube unless they provide a compatible Quicktime [...]

I was reading the NY Times this morning, and learned about H. Edward Roberts. “Not many people in the computer world remembered H. Edward Roberts, not after he walked away from the industry more than three decades ago to become a country doctor in Georgia. Bill Gates remembered him, though.” Starts off the NY Times [...]

Recently enjoyed teaching a Worpdress, and a Backpack Digital Journalism workshop at Rice University in Houston as part of NAHJ’s Region 5 conference. We reviewed WP’s basics, how to set-up a news driven site at WordPress.com, and what it takes to move to your own hosted WordPress where you may have a higher customization level [...]