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… Read More »Twitter hitting it big at the 2011 Montana Legislature
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,… Read More »Pennsylvania teacher suspended for blog post calling students “lazy whiners”
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… Read More »Egypt blocks country’s Internet access during massive protests
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 –… Read More »What is your state 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… Read More »Hacking the Legislature
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… Read More »Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi…
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… Read More »Would we use less power if power cords glowed?
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have found that regional dialects show up even in the 140-character Tweets people send.