Launched a redesigned web site this week for Blue Ridge Photography, my free-lance photography arm. Hopefully it will be a showcase for our still photography and a place to try some new technologies. We will feature sports and Blue Ridge Mountain music (above).
We're working on a new Buffalo Mountain Films web site and hope to launch it by April 15. Stay tuned.
Off to Duke University next week to participate in The Next Newsroom conference, a project designed to -- among other things -- drag print and broadcast journalism kicking and screaming into the current century.
If you look at too many newspaper (and television station) web sites, you see the use of new technology hampered by old ideas about when to report news. Daily and weekly newspapers waste too much space recycling what is published in their print editions (often after it is published on paper) and don't use the web to keep their readers informed on a timely basis.
Good news sites (like WashingtonPost.Com) realize that the web is a 24/7 web operation and publish stories as they break. The reader is not served by stale news.
