Trivial Links: How we spent our November blogging time…

All Categories Trivial Links
Written by Nathan Mattise
Look, just because I’ve neglected my 3-day-a-week posting schedule here at In Pursuit of the Trivial doesn’t mean I’m being lazy.
I’ve simply been busy (which in some contexts, is certainly a suitable pseudo-synonym for lazy).
Here’s a look at work being done this November as the return of “Five Signs” [...]

Trivial Links: Free Online Journalism Tools

Science & Nature Trivial Links
Written by Nathan Mattise

The more I experiment with video or audio editing, the more useful free journalistic technology services like these become.

Speaking of online journalism experiments, here’s my recent favorite from online story innovation guru Jonathan Harris.

This study just confirms what everyone already knows – Facebook is wildly popular (1 in [...]

Trivial Links: The best reads from our recent spell of apathetic blogging.

All Categories Trivial Links
Written by Nathan Mattise
Unfortunately, it’s been awhile since we’ve posted (anything, period.) here at In Pursuit of the Trivial. It’s been even longer since our last consistent Trivial Links run. To commemorate the return to normalcy, here’s a smorgasbord of the best reads that span a variety of Trivial topics…

The famed Malcolm [...]

It’s time to contest all these contests.

Science & Nature Column
Written by Nathan Mattise
I would never expect to win a raffle, a lottery or any of the “be the fourth caller” type of contests. However, whenever any caveat including some semblance of skill is added to a competition… suddenly I find myself diving in head first.
Take the recent PopCandy Guest Blogger week. [...]

Syracuse Football is certainly winning off the field.

Sports & Leisure Column
Written by Nathan Mattise
Malcolm Gladwell’s article on how underdogs increase their chances of success by using unorthodox approaches is great in theory, but how many entities have actually utilized it?
Well, I know of at least one.
Saying SU Football is in a rough stretch would be a tremendous understatement. Greg Robinson pioneered the [...]