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Friday, September 21st, 2007

My Three Favorite Online Magazines

Monocle

Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design. Headquartered in London with bureaux in Tokyo, Sydney, Zürich and New York, Monocle appears 10 times a year in print and is updated constantly at monocle.com.


Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

High Def Web Visuals Coming Soon

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In August, Adobe released a beta version of its new flash player. The player will now support Quicktime H.264 compression.


Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Duluth Minnesota

Duluth

If you ever have an opportunity to visit Duluth, Minnesota, do it. It’s quite an amazing little city on Lake Superior.


Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

myPhone

My Nokia Phone

With all this blogging going on about the iPhone, I figured that it was time to pay homage to the iPhone‘s more capable older sibling: the Nokia 312ob RH-50. The more than 300,000 blogs and millions of comments on blogs about the iPhone makes me wonder if we all have too much time on our [...]


Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Online Convergence Award

I’m excited to announce that the mining series that I helped direct, photograph, videotape and multimedia-ize won first place for online convergence in the Associate Press Managing Editors contest for newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. It was a huge group effort, with Mike Belt reporting for LJWorld.com, Brian Powell and Greg Hurd producing for [...]


Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Storytelling Using Google Maps

One of the coolest new features on Google Maps is the ability to create “My Maps.” I geo-tagged photos and 360-degree panoramas to a Google Map from a project that explores the long-term health, environmental and economic-related effects that mining has had on parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Click the image above to view [...]


Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Rattlesnake Roundup Resurrection

I’m resurrecting this audio slideshow from a few years ago because, well, it’s rattlesnake roundup season. I photographed and reported this story for the Lawrence Journal-World after thumbing through an events calendar for Kansas. Rattlesnake roundups are under increasing scrutiny by wildlife groups and animal rights activists as studies have found the species to be [...]


Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Winnie

Say hello to Winnie. She’s my new kitten. Winnie is a small, salt and pepper colored cat with a white front right paw and a white back left paw. Pretty cute if you ask me. She likes the taste of people food, and strangely enough, my fingers. Meow!


Monday, June 25th, 2007

Kansas Wind Energy

Last week I spent a few days traveling around Kansas shooting video and photos for this story for the Lawrence Journal-World about wind energy. When I arrived back in Lawrence, I had put 1,000 miles on my VW Rabbit, clicked more than 1,200 accuations on my Nikon D200, and logged about 5 hours of HD [...]