TweetA 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 downtown surely has heard …
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Tweet 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 …
TweetIf 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 I align myself with …
TweetKeep 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 Hill Courier-Post. The anonymous …
TweetA 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 on Twitter who have …
How do journalists grow social networking in a small(er) town? Read More »
TweetThere 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 outright denials by school officials …
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TweetThis 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 videographer there said …
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TweetReally, 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 his follow-up to his …
TweetMark 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 don’t want this …
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TweetAs 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 on Wired Journalists, …
Why I’m beatblogging: It helps the print product, too Read More »