Video is coming to your cell phone, natch, but, like the device itself, these clips will be pretty small. The few crumbs of spare attention anyone has left over from the barrage of daily media will soon be eaten up by "video snacks," little chunks of content delivered to cell phones to fill those awkward moments when no one is ...

Hear the story behind the story as Chronicle managing editor Robert Rosenthal talks with Alicia Parlette, a 23-year-old copy editor and writer, about her series of personal stories on battling a rare form of cancer. Link to podcast

If you didn’t read the whole article in the NY Times about user-content “by the masses” I mentioned yesterday you missed the following paragraph: "We are now entering the participation age," Jonathan I. Schwartz, the president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, said on Monday at an industry conference in San Francisco. "The really interesting thing about the network ...

A good NY Times article about user-developed content on the net. From photo- and calendar-sharing services to "citizen journalist" sites and annotated satellite images, the Internet is morphing yet again. A remarkable array of software systems makes it simple to share anything instantly, and sometimes enhance it along the way…. …the abundance of user-generated content – which includes online games, ...