June 2010

iPad finger painting is more than child’s play

June 30, 2010

Check out artist David Jon Kassan’s paint-by-digits portrait on the iPad. He’s using Steve Sprang’s phenomenal Brushes app.

Read the full article →

Social media according to Deloitte

June 28, 2010

Social media takes place in a hive, where everyone participates equally in the conversation. Sometimes you talk; sometimes you listen. Sometimes you lead; sometimes you follow. To discover how one company engages in social media, read Deloitte’s captivating report: Social Media at Deloitte: Participation, communication, transformation. Connecting through emails, blogs, wikis, web, video and photo [...]

Read the full article →

Apple iBooks and Amazon Kindle iPad Apps Face-to-Face

June 23, 2010

Poor Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Almost from the day Apple’s iPad made its splashy debut, you just knew the e-book readers from the other guys were about to head down the path of extinction. To no one’s surprise, yesterday Amazon cut its Kindle reader’s price to $189 down from $259. At the same time, Barnes [...]

Read the full article →

Four sites every online writer should know

June 15, 2010

What follows is a list of four sites every Web writer should visit at least once: Poynter Institute’s mission is to train journalists, students, educators and others in online and multimedia writing and editing. While you’re there, check out Roy Peter Clark’s nifty list of 50 writing tools. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab, or OWL,  houses [...]

Read the full article →

About half of adult Americans watch online videos

June 3, 2010

About half of all American adults have watched videos online, according to a new study of online video viewing habits conducted by the Pew Research Center. Seven in ten adult Internet users (69 percent) have used the internet to watch or download video, according to the study, whose results were released Thursday. That represents 52 [...]

Read the full article →