The Jeff Beckham Weblog

This story in the New York Times turns the spotlight on a handful of newspapers who are beginning to experiment with e-paper or e-readers - handheld devices embedded with digtal ink - capsules that light up or go dark when electrically charged.
De Tijd, a Belgian financial newspaper, has begun a test of the technology, while [...]

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Statesman.com continues to add to its lineup of bloggers. The latest additions are Backspin, where sportswriter Kevin Robbins “takes dead aim at the Austin golf scene and the topography of the game throughout Texas”, and Seeing Things, where arts critic Jeanne Claire van Ryzin writes about art and architecture.
It’s good to see the local [...]

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User experience gurus Lou Rosenfeld and Steve Krug are hosting a happy hour on May 11 at the Capitol Brassiere in Austin (next to the downtown Alamo Drafthouse). The fine folks at frogdesign are sponsoring the event.
Lou and Steve will be teaching seminars on May 11 and 12 on “Enterprise Information Architecture: Because Users Don’t [...]

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The Austin Film Society is looking for a webmaster. The job posting lists the expected qualifications, but there are some intriguing details listed under “Additionally helpful skills”

Experience with Paypal and/or other online payment/commerce systems
Online video preparation and streaming
Blogging technology, RSS and podcasting

I hope those are promising signs from the AFS. The group does great work [...]

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As reflected in the About This Site page, this website will focus on how the Web is changing our existing forms of media, and how “media” itself is finding their place in between (”in the middle/media”) people and the content they want threatened on all sides by all kinds of web-based technologies.
I’ll begin by focusing [...]

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