I’ve been busy. And that’s what this post is about.

• NewAssignment Launches out of beta in less than two weeks.
• I have a new semi-job. I am a Netscape Navigator.
• School —- They haven’t kicked me out yet.

So lets get to the new job first — read below the jump.

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Note: The following will only be interesting to my parents (Hi Mim, Hi Dad). But I want to blog them for future nostalgia purposes (and because this blog is all about my ego). Plus one joke that professor Porter made in his evaluation just made me drop on the floor and laugh: He got the last word.

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Last week I was in New Media hell. This week I can bask in that glory. Me and my fellow co-horts have re-started NYC24.

The homepage design is sleek and cool. Inside each issue you will find seven stories that revolve around a specific theme.

The theme for this issue is heights.

So me and my partner Ahmed Shihab-Eldin  (a great multi-media journalist who was also my editor on the story about Digg for CJR) did our piece on the High Line — an unused railway in New York.

I really prefer working online. I’ve always been a fan of working with text. But on these projects text seems to fall in the background while we run around like chickens without a head trying to finish the flash interactives, photoshop files and dreamweaver layout.

It’s a lot of work. But all in all, well worth it.

I love the New York Times. So I’ll try and put a positive spin on this.

"The Alarm Clock as a Moving Target. Catch it if You Can"

WAY TO GO GUYS! — You are only about two years late on this one (and the positive note: A Columbia J-Student wrote about this in April of 05′.

Here’s my new editorial voice coming out: It’s okay to be a little late covering breaking news. It happens to me too at NewAssignment.Net (although I can’t pay my writers — so I have to work with their schedule), but why would you be two years late to tout something like a moving alarm clock? It must have been a slow news day.

About a week after I wrote on Internet Multitasking Syndrome, PBS’s MediaShift columnist Mark Glaser posed a question to MediaShift readers about converged devices, and more recently whether paid attention to anything anymore.

In his follow up post Mark asked if he could use the photo montage for my new Web site, which he titled "Five Shades of David Cohn." (I wonder if that will now come up in a Google image search?)

I have always framed this problem as being some form of Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD), but New York freelance writer and thinker David
Cohn recently dubbed the problem Internet Multitasking Syndrome, with the handy IMS acronym. His focus was solely on the Internet, and how hyperlinks invite us to jump around like gnats from site to site.

I’ve met Mark once and can genuinely say he is a nice and intelligent guy. But I’m bummed about one thing. As a child I always dreamed about being in PBS with a bunch of fury animated creatures that would help me learn to spell. Or at least that guy from A Reading Rainbow. I mean, Glaser bares a little resemblance to Beaker from the Muppets, but it’s just not the same.

Update: Also re-blogged at CBS’s Public Eye blog.

I have a Website and this is the first link to it.

Djcohn.com is by far not done. But the main design is in place — it still makes me laugh every time I look at it. Until I get sick of seeing myself as an eager, ambitious 25-year-old journalist, still a little green behind the ears. This is how it will remain.

But I do intend to beef up the clips section and fix other parts that irk me here and there.

Just wanted to give an update that it’s finally up and running.

Over at Hesitating I’ve written about "my three cities" before. That post was about a game I play — trying to figure out what relatives a city would be. Example: San Francisco is a nurturing mother, New York is a strict father and Los Angeles is a bastard child.

Another fun game is to figure out what neighborhoods correlate. Last time I was in Los Angeles I realized that LA neighborhoods are pretty unique. Hollywood is kind of like Times Square, Venice a bit like Coney Island, but somehow LA neighborhoods stay uniquely LA in my mind.

At Overstated someone has made a great comparison between SF and NY.

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