An iPhone or a Smartphone can be a wonderful thing. You can do…well, darn
near anything with it…including record for posterity any event within
eye-range or should I say, I-range.
Unless you want to become famous (or infamous), don’t lose your temper at
the check-out stand or yell at your kid in the WalMart parking lot. If you
do, soon 145,329 (more or less) people could view it on the Internet because
some guy caught it on his Smartphone, uploaded it to YouTube, then tweeted
and Facebooked it even before you got to your car.
From this day forward, politicians at every level, classroom professors, town
cops, TSA agents, and even FedEx delivery folks must be on their best
behavior at all times. If not, their misadventures will be caught on tape and
published for posterity.
We used to complain that Big Brother was watching us. Well, he is –
security cameras are now ... (more)
An iPhone or a Smartphone can be a wonderful thing. You can do...well, darn
near anything with it...including record for posterity any event within
eye-range or should I say, I-range.
Unless you want to become famous (or infamous), don't lose your temper at the
check-out stand or yell at your kid in the WalMart parking lot. If you do,
soon 145,329 (more or less) people could view it on the Internet because some
guy caught it on his Smartphone, uploaded it to YouTube, then tweeted and
Facebooked it even before you got to your car.
From this day forward, politicians at every level... (more)
Besides mowing lawns and shoveling snow, my very first job as a lad was an
Omaha World-Herald newspaper route. I delivered the paper every day to
about 40 customers in the south end of Council Bluffs, Iowa. That’s why the
headline that Warren Buffett has purchased the OWH attracted my attention.
The price, reportedly, is $150 million plus the assumption of $50 million of
debt. Two-hundred-thousand bucks for a business that Buffett once told his
shareholders has a “potential for unending losses.”
The biggest problems newspapers face are 24-hour cable news outlets and
Internet new... (more)
It is possible that you can be a citizen sports reporter in your town.
KHQA-TV, an ABC affiliate in the Keokuk, Iowa, Qunicy, Illinois, and
Hannibal, Missouri area, actively recruits citizen journalists as sports
reporters. Here’s the ad from their website:
Are you interested in being a sports reporter?
If you are a high school senior in the Tri-States, then here’s your chance
to be on the side lines with KHQA Sports Reporters and help report the best
local sports on “Overtime with Chris Duerr”.
To see the KHQU-TV web page, CLICK HERE.
Many local broadcast and print news opera... (more)
Besides mowing lawns and shoveling snow, my very first job as a lad was an
Omaha World-Herald newspaper route. I delivered the paper every day to about
40 customers in the south end of Council Bluffs, Iowa. That’s why the
headline that Warren Buffett has purchased the OWH attracted my attention.
The price, reportedly, is $150 million plus the assumption of $50 million of
debt. Two-hundred-million bucks for a business that Buffett once told his
shareholders has a “potential for unending losses.”
The biggest problems newspapers face are 24-hour cable news outlets and
Internet news ... (more)