Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
A little past 9 a.m. today, a long fleet of truckers roared down the central business area of Harrisburg, all incessantly honking their horns. Some had signs taped outside their windows, revealing that they were protesting gas prices at the Capitol.
Interesting story, as anyone who lives or has an office ...
Posted in Journalism, Social Media | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Robin Hood: Oh, Marian, if only 'twere me.
Maid Marian: Oh, if 'twere you, 'twould be... twerrific.
Eventually I'll get tired of making bad jokes about Twitter's name. Promise.
Just two days into my Twitter Twial, I have:
Been followed by 21 people
Found 39 people to follow, including 14 locals I've never met
Had ...
Posted in Social Media | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
If you read other journalism blogs, it's Twitter this Twitter that. Twitter Twitter Twitter. Twitter will cure cancer. Twitter will save the world. Twitter is the now, Twitter is the future, Twitter will replace oxygen.
There's a near-consensus out there, coming from a lot of people who I highly respect. People ...
Posted in Social Media | 6 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Keep your hand down, Steve Boriss. I know your answer is "zero."
This question struck me when I read the fond adieu that the blogger at Left of Centre wrote to Adam Smeltz, a Centre Daily Times reporter and long-time friend of mine who recently accepted a job at the Cherry ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
A lot of the most spirited arguments for social media are often made in places where there's already a tech-savvy audience built in.
Yet in a place like Harrisburg, Pa., which is home to the country's 86th-biggest newspaper and the No. 41 television market, there are a total of nine people ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
There was a great piece of investigative reporting the other day by Dena Pauling in the Centre Daily Times, my hometown newspaper and former employer. It revealed mold problems in a local high school, and how the school's administration failed to notify the public about it. It also prints the ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
This does.
So our photographer wouldn't have to try to juggle his still and video cameras, I volunteered to shoot some video. I didn't say I'd be good at it, I just said I'd try it. I clearly had no idea what I was doing.
My favorite moment came when a friendly ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Really, I won't dwell too much on Mark Cuban in the future. I only pick on him now because I normally enjoy his blog and he's written two blog-themed entries lately, and he sounds eerily like a lot of misguided journalists in writing them.
So normally I'll leave him alone, but ...
Posted in In defense of bloggers | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Mark Cuban's consistently thought-provoking Blog Maverick had a doozy yesterday.
He wrote about the situation that arose when he realized that one of the Dallas Morning News writers who was covering the team was -- gasp! -- a blogger. When he discovered this, he tried to revoke his credentials:
Not because I ...
Posted in In defense of bloggers, Journalism | 2 Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
As one of the 13 reporters in Jay Rosen and David Cohn's beatblogging.org project, I've read a lot of response to the concept.
The Journalism Iconoclast is behind the concept, calling you an idiot if you're a sports reporter who isn't on the train.
In a comment on one of Cohn's posts ...
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