Some forward-thinking Statesman employee had reserved the domain name “hookem” more than a decade ago. All it needed was a purpose. This past summer, we gave it one when we launched the niche site just before the Horns football team started 2-a-day practices. The Statesman had a Longhorns forum for more than a decade, but [...]

Saw a commercial for the Times Reader 2.0 on Hulu recently. Anyone out there taking advantage of it? Looks really slick. Soon ePaper will be upon us in a big way. Current Times Reader subscribers get free access to Times Reader 2.0—powered by Adobe AIR. Now available for Macintosh, PC and Linux users, and full [...]

Milblogs Go Silent Across the Internet CYBERSPACE – On Wednesday, December 16 2009, many military blogs (milblogs) have decided to go silent for the day, while others are choosing to go silent for a longer period of time. This is happening because milblogs are facing an increasingly hostile environment from within the military. According to [...]

At least not starting out when your competition is big media, which still has money to burn. It struck me this summer (somewhere during year four of my adventures in journalism) that I needed to rethink how I was approaching things. I was still running around trying to do everything all on my own. I [...]