Jeff Beckham

In this week’s Austin Chronicle, Kevin Brass covers the lawsuit filed by Austin Monthly magazine against Austin Magazine, which charges that the latter publication has copied its style and is infringing on its trademark in an effort to confuse the public.

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Audio tours via iPod have received some recent attention around town. The latest story was in the Statesman, which highlighted the audio tour available at the Whole Foods flagship store. The Whole Foods tour is geared toward first-time visitors and comes equipped with Texas music from Spoon and Robert Earl Keen.
Another Austin company, CitizenPod, has [...]

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This year’s News & Documentary Emmy Awards will include a category for “non-traditional platforms”: computers, phones, iPods, etc.
As Peter Johnson points out in USA Today, however, none of the final nominees came from traditional television networks and most of them came from newspapers.

“The Diary of Gideon in Pakistan,” MTV News on Overdrive.
“Hurricane Katrina Batters Gulf [...]

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Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka launched his Burkablog on Monday. Burka has been critical of blogs in the past (and others have taken him to task for that), but I say welcome, Paul. I hope your blog will be the first step toward an active conversation between Texas Monthly and its readers.
Previously: Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka [...]

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Checking out Newsmap:

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.

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Two sites in Nick Denton’s Gawker Media stable were put up for sale over the weekend, while the editors at notable sites like Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo, and Gridskipper were moved or replaced. The moves have brought significant reaction from bloggers, wondering if there is a “bubble” that’s about to burst. Leave it to the level-headed [...]

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