Category: Newsroom technology

Wondering about wireless?

Infomaniac points to a special report by CNN and Time. Oh, and just for fun, check out your Geek IQ (Mine was about 116).

Hot times in Wisconsin

I got this tale of old-timey newspaper technology from Rich Eggleston, who works for the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities. Tom… In the age before computer prices came so far down that even the AP could afford to buy them in…

On fighting spam

I don’t know how bad the spam is in your newsroom, but it’s gotten out of hand in ours. The folks at Kuro5hin suggest a way to fight back: by responding to some of those spams, which costs the spammers…

More cold type tales

I’m amassing people’s favorite stories of the transition from hot type to cold type back in the mid- to late ’70s. (Here’s the first item). Here’s one sent along by John McClelland of the journalism faculty at Roosevelt University in…

BONG update

Charley Stough’s latest BONG Bull is out. Among the fun stuff is an anecdote from one of the folks at F5, a free weekly in Wichita that seems to demonstrate that coolness can stand up to a strong west wind.…

What do you call the time when…

… you’re doing nothing waiting for the pagination system to come back up? Downtime isn’t industry-specific enough. (Brought to you by the 327th annoying CCI breakdown.) It gets worse: CCI’s down and they don’t know how to bring it back…

Share your horror stories

We just had a fun trip down memory lane, sharing tales of being trapped in technology hell. The best stories are from people who suffered the transition from hot to cold type back in the ’70s. If you have any…