Leno's Big Push

NBC is spending $10 million to promote Jay Leno's new show. ....

Another way to use Facebook

In class on Thursday, we talked a little about the increasing number of employers who use the Web to check up on job applicants and whether the stuff on a Facebook page might be embarassing some day. Here's a piece that takes a different viewpoint: You can use Facebook to your advantage.

Cycling

A friend and I went cycling on Sunday morning. I did about 36 miles; he went on for a few miles more. There was something invigorating about the morning. Lots of other people were out on their bicycles and, for the first time in months, it was slightly cool.

Testing ScribeFire

This is the first test of a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire.

Inauguration

Hulu is offering a a live feed of the presidential inauguation on Jan.20. You can watch it right here:

Possibilities

Here are three pieces that might lend themselves to blog topics:

The first is on Twitter, and you can find it here. Do you use Twitter? How and why do you use it? What's the advantage over other short forms of messaging?

The second is on the record industry, and its attempts to cope with the Web.

The third is about a New Yorker writer's encounter with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly. It gives you an insight into how stories are produced.

And here are the blogs of two former students in this class. Note how they develop their ideas.

The first is here.
And this is the link to the second.