JR: Local newspapers 'broadcast' over Roku - Aug 18, 2015 - Columbia Journalism Review - How local papers are looking over the top as part of a new model for video They are video news clips out of Beaver County, population 170,000, just outside Pittsburgh along the Ohio border, but theres som... more>> 3 min read
- Aug 19, 2015 - #media #podcast #writing #tv #video

JR: Social Media for Non-profits - https://media.twitter.com/nonprofits https://medium.com/@Medium/getting-started-on-medium-for-non-profit-organizations-b44f0bba765a #socialmedia - #writing - #activism - #howto
- Aug 11, 2015

JR: Simple CSS text formatting test - This website uses Google's Open Sans font. The CSS to display this content page includes: content ID: content{ color:#000000; font-size:1.2em; line-height:1.7em; } Test using use default web fonts to display text. Textile paragraph co... more>>
- May 15, 2015 - #writing #design #css #testing

JR: Creating Markdown help documentation - April 2015 https://github.com/gjtorikian/markdowntutorial.com https://github.com/chrisalley/commonmark-website https://github.com/michelf/mdtest https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics https://help.github.com/articles/... more>>
- Apr 13, 2015 - #writing #markup #markdown

JR: Micropublishing - #media #design #writing #cms
- Mar 24, 2015

JR: Designing websites for readers and writers - "Thankfully, we're starting to see something of a Renaissance. Comment-forms are dropping off blogs like vestigial tails. Text sizes are increasing yearly, and sites are being stripped and whitewashed, with most of their old cruft gone without a trac... more>> 4 min read
- Mar 24, 2015 - #design #blogging #typography #content #writing #longform #reading #blog_jr

JR: Email newsletter startup business - Proof that not all of the ideas have been taken. Lo-fi tech approach plus personal interests plus a passion to make something. dec 2014 july 2014 sample #email - #media - #writing - #technology - #startup
- Dec 17, 2014

JR: Snarky, tear-down content - It's a common writing style because it's easy to do, and many people enjoy it because it makes them feel good when they read about others getting verbally torn down. Humans have a desire to see successful people and projects fail. For some years, ... more>> 1 min read
- Dec 17, 2014 - #web #media #writing #business #blogging #design

JR: Fascinating local story - #writing - #art - #history - #business #toledo
- Dec 08, 2014

JR: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes - (my june 7, 2006 toledotalk.com post that excerpted a ZDNet story) So here we are in the era of Word's red-underline "wrong spelling, dumb ass" feature and Outlook's Always Check Spelling Before Sending option, and still the mistakes proliferate. C... more>> 4 min read
- Dec 01, 2014 - #writing

JR: Test post - 11Nov2014 - Just messing around. I'm typing this, using the enhanced writing area, which is a JavaScript-based feature, instead of the simple, HTML textarea box. I used ctrl-j to shift to a mode that contains no buttons, no split screen, nothing. It's not full... more>> 4 min read
- Nov 11, 2014 - #writing #editor #blogging #testing

JR: Shattering the myths about writing - My July 2004 ToledoTalk.com post : BG News opinion: What amazes and frustrates me most are the misconceptions all age groups, from high school students to veteran educators and administrators, have about writing and writing centers. Some of the... more>>
- Oct 13, 2014 - #writing

JR: The top features for community sites are users and their content - Whatever they are called ... social media social networks forums / message boards community blogs ... these sites accept user-generated content, and most likely, these sites host discussions on that content. Here's a fine comment in this threa... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 03, 2014 - #socialnetwork #socialmedia #forums #blogging #design #reading #writing #blog_jr

JR: Markdown Wars - September 2014 - Maybe this will be a new reality TV show. I'm glad that I have been writing in Textile, nearly every day since 2005. My Junco and Grebe codebases allow markup writing in Textile, MultiMarkdown, and some HTML. I've created my own flavor of Markd... more>> 13 min read
- Sep 08, 2014 - #writing #markup #markdown #textile #design #blog_jr

JR: Content creation at GitHub - https://github.com/blog/1557-github-flow-in-the-browser Related elsewhere : https://github.com/blog/1379-zen-writing-mode https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown https://... more>>
- Sep 07, 2014 - #collaboration #business #gtd #writing