All the hot entertainment acts get to play The White House. It’s the equivalent of a Royal Command Performance.
Telegraph.co.uk video of Mumford and Sons at The White House
So when British Prime Minister Cameron showed up for a tent show on March 14th, President Obama invited the hottest British act – Mumford and Sons.
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Last night we upgraded to a new WordPress theme.
Among nifty new features and a clean look, NJN Network supports HMTL 5. It will be easier to read on your tablet or smartphone.
This post is one of 4 new formats – it’s an aside. The post that follows is just an image.
Please bear with us during the change and please report any problems.
It’s a brand new day at NJN Network with a new hosting serverOvernight we changed hosting servers at NJN Network.
We’ve checked and doubled checked.
Things seem to be working but let us know if something goes “poof”.
And now a little Bob Dylan and George Harrison, because if not for you…what would we do?
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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but NJN Network articles are showing up on other websites, including our good friends over at Oye Times. I’ve had a few people emailing me, warning me that people are stealing our content.
They’re not stealing, I’m encouraging them to steal. Here’s the deal, and I’ve actually said this for and years: feel free to use NJN Network articles for anything you like. You don’t need to ask permission. If you find an article that you like, and you’d like to put it on your website, be our guest. Free. You can put it into a website, record it as a podcast, include it your newsletter, etc.
All we ask is that you attribute NJN Network as the original source of the article, unless we copied it from someone else, and that you give credit to the original writer.
If it’s on the web, please provide a link back to the original article on NJN Network. I think that’s fair. Free content for your website in exchange for a link back.
We stole most of this from Universe Today. For a legalistic wording of all this, check out Copyright & Trademarks
Update – Proving once again that spelling is no my forte – Out is not the same as Our – thanks to reader for correction of the title.
Things have changed since we started NJN Network in 2007 and we’ve changed with them.
We try to be where you are, which is a lot of places on the Internet.
We used to print and re-print 10 stories a day, many of them came from other sources. You could follow us at this site, through RSS and maybe Facebook.
Today the internet is more efficient at distributing content so we rely on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Google and BuzzFeed to spread the news around.
NJN Network has been on your iPhone and Blackberry since February 2010, on the iPad since May and Android since September.
Twitter is the quickest way to get at our content – that’s why we have a Hot Tweets box at the top of the page. It rotates the latest 20 stories. Continue reading
Merry Christmas from CBC, sorry you're life is not so merry
Nothing is more obscene than the pampered people at CBC with their annual do-gooder turkey drive. CBC wastes it’s considerable resources attacking the wrong end of the stick.
Do they think one turkey at Christmas will alleviate the crushing weight of poverty or is this all just another WKRP radio station publicity stunt?
If the folks at CBC really carried about Christmas and the message of Christ, they would use their considerable resources to report stories about the reality of PEI’s poverty problem.
A short stint of real reporting at CBC would inform the public and embarrass the government into fixing the problem once and for all.
Dr. Robert Coull wrote that charity drives make him angry. “The need for charity is something that makes me very angry. It reminds me that our society is unjust. The poor continue to be poor, while the rich get richer. Rich people ‘feeling good’ about giving a few dollars or a few hours of their time to the ‘deserving poor’ is something I would love to see the end of.” Continue reading
Twitter added a new service that allows you to add a non-third party tweet button to your website.
The idea is to have a quick and efficient way for readers to tweet stories without going through Tweetme. For the code see Twitter API
NJN Network is self-hosted which created some wrinkles. We went with a free plugin called Tweet Button. The new button is set to zero so Tweet away and get those counts up!
We are in the process of fixing hundreds of broken links so bear with us. Over time, sites we link to disappear, re-organize or delete pages. Those links are broken and we are fixing them one by one. Don’t you just hate housework? Me too but it will get done.
WordPress.org released 3.0 of the popular blogging and content management system yesterday. The big question is should you upgrade now or wait?
If you’re like me, it’s upgrade and damn the torpedoes. However, recent crisis with hosting and other blog disasters has made me gun shy.
The new version of WordPress has loads of powerful and cool features. You can manage multi-sites from one login. Like many people with multiple blogs that will save time.
There are new post types beyond the original five or post, page, attachments, revisions and nav menus. New post types reflect the multi-media reality of the web today: photo posts, quotes, chats, audio / podcasts and video. This will enable us to make our blogs media richer.
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Photo credit: Paulino Figueirido
Randy MacDonald weighs into the discussion on “bloggers and journalism” referring to the controversy about NJN Network’s expulsion from the PEI Legislature.
Bloggers may or may not be journalists but then journalists aren’t journalists either. Reprinting press releases on a regular basis is called public relations.
MacDonald finds Rukavina’s admission that Ruk is not a journalist more of a personal admission than a state of the craft. In I am not a journalist, Rukavina makes the interesting although unconvincing statement
“The words I write in this space I write for myself alone, without consideration for their consumption. I write about things that happen to me, things that interest me, things that happen in my neighborhood and things that happen in the world.”
iPad web surfing is addictive photo: Gizmo Watch
When I started the iPad review, which is now 3 articles long, I had no idea how the thing would be useful. It was purchased on a whim with the idea it could be returned within 14 days.
The two weeks are almost up an I can’t see it going back to Future Shop. Everyone in the house grabs it when they get home and again in the morning.
My idea was to set up a scorecard on the iPad against Apple’s claims of its value, do something objective not just “golly this is neat.”
Checking out YouTube was a disappointment. Then watching purchased videos was more fun. But who does that all day long? Only a small value for dollar there.
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