Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
(This is posted simply so it can be added to my Clips page. Also visit this previous entry to see the video I made along with the story.)
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
More than two years ago, Hersheypark officials privately gambled that few people would miss the Western Chute-Out.
They figured the ...
Posted in Clips | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Run up the Score, in my humble opinion, is the best of the many Penn State football-themed blogs out there. Though my particular newspaper, in my humble opinion, offers the best Penn State football coverage out there, RUTS has become required reading.
I swept the pigeons away from my typewriter long ...
Posted in In defense of bloggers | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
TimesPeople will be marked as the beginning of a key revolution in newspaper Web sites.
Not because of what it is -- a pretty underwhelming social network based on recommending stories at nytimes.com -- but because of the doors it'll open to a more social experience in consuming news.
Shoving content onto ...
Posted in Journalism | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I was delighted to find Jessica DaSilva's blog (via Pat Thornton). Jessica, a journalism student at the University of Florida, had a recent entry about her internship at the Tampa Tribune that took me back to the good old days of unadulterated enthusiasm.
Reading through Jessica's blog shows you don't have ...
Posted in Journalism | 19 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I'm not sure when it went live, but the new Syracuse.com looks like a significant step up from the prior design shared by all Advance Internet sites (including Pennlive, which posts stories written by my newspaper. Clicking those two pretty much gives you the before and after for Syracuse). Read ...
Posted in Journalism | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 16th, 2008
I love the beatblogging project because it's innovation in real newsroom laboratories, as opposed to tsk-tsking and dreaming.
My foray into it has had its ups and downs, but I recently had a kind of success story that I didn't expect when I signed up.
And it shows why I believe so ...
Posted in Beatblogging, Journalism, Social Media | 2 Comments »
