» Category: Misc. Computer Stuff
Best speeches from the 2009 Webby awards
Okay so this is massively outdated. The Webby Awards, which recognize online excellence, were held in early June. Here’s a listing of this year’s winners. What’s great about the Webbys is that everyone is limited to five words in their acceptance speeches. No exceptions. Here are some of my favorites from this year’s event.
Honors from the Georgia Press Association
Some of the winners were announced recently in the Georgia Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, and yours truly was involved in a couple winning entries. The Rome News-Tribune, where I am Web editor, competes in division B, for papers with daily circulation of 15,000 – 40,000.
Using WordPress to share videos privately
I recently finished working with a client on a project that had a lot of requirements. She wanted to be able to share videos online, with minimal fuss and no technical skill, and wanted the videos to be accessible only to those she wanted to see them. It was a pretty obvious choice to use WordPress, because of its ease of use. Here’s a list of the other applications and plugins I used to set up their site.
A free online photo editor that's quite good
I don’t have Photoshop on my computer at work, but I’m constantly needing to edit photos. Our IT guy installed a copy of Gimp, but I don’t really like it at all, and it’s never worked properly on my machine, so I’ve been looking for another option. Luckily, I’ve found one I like a lot. Picnik is a Flash-based online photo editor that has both free and paid plans.
Guess I'm not as much of a geek as I thought
So Gizmodo has a list of 50 skills that every geek should have. Apparently, I’m only 10 percent geek because I can do only five of the things they list.
