Joe Beaulaurier’s Blog

There’s a widget on Yahoo!’s obsolete Mash property that is a fill-in-the-blank means of describing ones self. Here’s my attempt at it:
If I were an animal, I would be a sloth
My best features are missing
My Celebrity look-a-likes are sad
What I’m most likely doing now flying under the radar
What I’ll most likely be doing in [...]

Read about it on TechCrunch
And, as with any good idea, the spam will follow. Bring on the del.icio.us spam (!?).
 

If I could make a living preaching the merits of using RSS readers to journalists, I’d do it. Unfortunately very few make use of RSS feeds. But some do. Of course these are the ones that write about such technology.

I see this on my MyYahoo! page today …

 
Being that I’m flying on Alaska Air to San Francisco next week I click and see this page …

I discovered Facebook has an easy-to-use polling service and gave it a try. I limited my poll to only journalism majors but not a specific age group (I wish it would have enabled me to add that). The poll asks the question, “What do you use most for story ideas and research?”