Michael Becker is the Web Editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has been a blogger and professional journalist since 2005, covering subjects ranging from nonprofits and crime to engineering and technology.
Reporter Cody Bloomsburg, covering the 2011 Montana Legislature for the UM School of Journalism’s Community News Service, put out a great feature this week on the growing use of Twitter among legislators and activists in Helena.
A high school English teacher in Pennsylvania is fighting for her job after a post to her blog, in which she called her students “disengaged, lazy whiners” and wondered what is wrong with calling them out?
We have a hell of a story coming at you in tomorrow’s paper. Reporter Gail Schontzler interviewed Georgia Smith, the woman who was shot five… Read More »Only in print… for a day
Facing massive protests, the government of Egypt today cut off Internet and cell service to almost all of the country’s 80 million residents, hoping to remove the ease with which protesters have coordinated and communicated.
I’m not sure how scientific this infographic is, but it’s entertaining. Jeff Wysaski at Pleated-Jeans.com has posted a map of the U.S. that describes — according to statistics — what each state is the worst at.
Bozeman’s Dahl Funeral Chapel was featured in a New York Times story about the growing practice of streaming video of funerals online for remote grievers.
Reporter John S. Adams took world-renowned computer security expert Brad Smith into the capitol in Helena and demonstrated — using a covert Bluetooth antenna and a cheap netbook — that many Bluetooth-enabled devices at the legislature are not secure.
The brains at MIT have hacked a Kinect camera to create a three-dimensional hologram in real time — of course it was an image of Princess Leia.
A new cell phone charger from Dexim, which the manufacturer just says is “neat,” may actually change the way we think about how we charge our devices, CNN reports.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have found that regional dialects show up even in the 140-character Tweets people send.