Transparent Topix realignment to be more user-centric; April Fool jokes around the web; Awesome free video training; Go to a meeting or kill yourself in 5 minutes

What do you do when your success … sucks?
Very nice, candid entry on the Topix reformatting from one of their leaders. About half way down there’s a list of the changes they’re making.

InTheCircle: CICM multimedia workshop video lesson
Whoa, Angela is freaking awesome!5 minutes to kill (yourself)
Your mission, should you choose it: You have 5 minutes to kill yourself before the next meeting. Office carnage. Giant sharks. Urinating on computers. Brown pants. Forget Halo 3. *This* is the best game of 2007.

2007 list of April Fools’ Day Jokes on Websites
I love the web.

Malofiej 15 winners announced
Online winners here!

How to Make Video Panoramas from Your Digital Camera’s Video Clips
This site looks really awesome, definite rss feed keeper.

Comedy Central Offers a Crash Course in Comedy
“On Monday, Comedy Central announced a new broadband series called Crash Course in Comedy. The ten-part show purports to teach viewers how they can become a stand-up comedian…”A Fuller Spectrum of News - - MSNBC.com
Gotta watch how this goes.

Zell’s Big Plans For Tribune
“Tribune will have to take on a truly staggering amount of debt—possibly as much as $13 billion, an enormous sum for a company that turned $1 billion operating profit in 2006.” Yowza.

Why Journalism Matters
What happens when you have thousands of people wielding the power of the press without any shared principles or standards? You get the Kathy Sierra mess. (via howard)

Resolution of the Human Eye
576 megapixels! (Via digg)

Pet food and out-of-touch newspapers (The crazy cat man speaks)
“If you are a newspaper editor who has not been playing every single one of these stories on your front page, you’ve been f’ing up, big time. Your precious “news judgment” is flat-out wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s led you astray once again.”

Citizen Journalism Contest: $1,000 for the most popular story, news or not
“This morning, GroundReport.com announced a new incentive for users publishing stories, video and photos to its site: $1,000 for the top-rated entry every month.”

Getting out of the office | mattwaite.com
Someone should clone Matt Waite and create an army of pro-active reporters that do cool stuff.

Journalists need to be entrepreneurial
Howard presents a great list of skillz to pay tha billz in new journalism.

HUMMER totaled by School Bus
Holy moses. We should be driving cheese on wheels in Iraq.

Top 10 April Fool Pranks 2007
More april fools pranks

The Most Hated Family in America
Kansas is too cool to house these people.