http://www.michaelpgoetz.com Personal ramblings and interesting tidbits Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:27:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Readership Institute has an excellent write-up of the recent Associated Press Managing Editors conference in Las Vegas that shows that speakers are continuing to hammer the "change" mantra for mainstream media. The article primarily points at newspapers and how to evolve them into something new in the 21st century, but ... http://www.michaelpgoetz.com/2008/09/apme-speakers-adaptability-means-survival/ Iamnews is a crowdsourced newsroom that lets publishers take in videos, photos or full articles and then push out a polished news product. The tool won the People's Choice award at the latest TechCrunch50 and seems like the perfect solution for small publishers that are trying to make up revenue on ... http://www.michaelpgoetz.com/2008/09/iamnews-might-be-answer-for-small-publishers/ Places I have lived http://www.michaelpgoetz.com/2008/09/testing-out-google-maps/ I used to be a runner. I ran cross country and long-distance track events in high school and loved the release running gave me. Somewhere along the I lost my motivation to keep running. I gained weight and ballooned to about 220 pounds before I joined the Army (in part to ... http://www.michaelpgoetz.com/2008/09/the-plan/