This comes via boingboing.net today.

After J-school, I’m more convinced than ever that newspapers (ink on dead tree) are pretty much doomed, with the exception of some niches — free papers, alternative papers, hyperlocal neighborhood papers.

Even among my journalist friends, I can’t think of anyone that has an actual subscription to a dead-tree daily newspaper.

Anyway, enjoy the video.

So the Medill project came to a successful conclusion.

I’m now a Master of Science in Journalism.

I’m still looking for some full time work, but I’ve managed to get a couple of freelance projects that will keep me fed and housed for a couple of months.  I’ll post more about them as they get closer to completion.

So, additional freelance projects seem like a good idea at this point.  It seems wise to split my job-search time between full time positions and additional freelance gigs, at least for the time being.

And it’s almost X-mas.  Hope you’re having a good one!

Protesters oppose the idea that Chicago should host the 2016 Olympics.

Taken this evening at about 5:30 p.m., here.

This is interesting. ScienceDaily.com is reporting that some folks at the University of Exeter have used game-theoretical models to predict strange food gathering behaviors that ravens exhibit only in particular geographic conditions…

“The researchers built a mathematical model to understand how this behaviour evolved and why it might occur in some roosts and not others. The model designed for this study was based on techniques used in other game theory models, which identify the most profitable behaviours of individuals in different situations to predict what would be favoured by evolution.

The study revealed two strategies as being most profitable for ravens to find food. One is for birds to search independently for food and recruit each other. The other is for the birds to forage in gangs.”

So I’m trying to find lists of events relevant to my beat, and I find that just YESTERDAY Google decided to discontinue the public calendar gallery.

So much for that research advantage.

2/5/2009
We’ve removed public calendar search and the public calendar gallery. For details, please see: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=139970