What I'm Reading
- VIDEO: Freedom Daywww.youtube.comAll my favorite Abbey Lincoln recordings are off Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. Watch this.
- North Korea makes Twitter debutGuardianTalk about sources going direct. North Korea is on the Twitters.
- Morning storms upend regionTBDThe tone of the @TBD severe weather liveblogthing is remarkably honest, even snarky at times.
- Confessions of an Online StalkerAssembly JournalIn which @heyitsnoah is made an example of, on the topic of Internet/"real life" privacy. I'm unimpressed.
- Poligraft Brings Politics and Influences Together in Just One ClickSunlight Foundation BlogMore than a little fascinated by Poligraft, a @sunfoundation project that... Well, you'll see. Try the bookmarklet.
- The Twitter Diet: a simple, three-point plan for Twitter dominanceArgo Project BlogFrom @mthomps at NPR's Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab's tweets.
- TBD debuts with no new ideas, but real actionLost RemoteFriends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: "What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action."
- Demotix partners with Publish2 for new photo-sharing networkJournalism.co.ukHere's the Journalism.co.uk story by @lauraoliver on the Publish2 partnership with @Demotix.
- Demotix and Publish2 News Exchange Partner!DemotixHere's the Demotix post about their Publish2 News Exchange partnership and plans for photo distribution.
- Can Publish2 Change the Way Newspapers Share Content?Editor & PublisherFree from the surly bonds of the paywall, here's E&P's story on Publish2 News Exchange from the July print issue.
- VIDEO: Freedom Day
Tag Archives: life
Things to do…
Now that I’m back from vacation, here’s what’s on my to-do list for, uh, the foreseeable future: Finish developing the pre-alpha version of ReportingOn and launch it. Like, really, really soon. Go to SND/APME next week, speak on Sunday, go … Continue reading
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Tagged django, graduate-school, jobs, life, reporting on, this-blog, wiredj
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Migration and alternate reads
I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to … Continue reading
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Tagged CMS, hyperlocal, j-school, Knight News Challenge, life, light-posting, online-news, writing
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Halloween debriefing, baby-friendly in 2007
Downtown Santa Cruz yesterday in daylight hours, among throngs of candy-seeking children and stroller-pushing parents (notably, myself, the wife, and our neighbors). I’m the one in the funny hat. Last year, this costume was quite a bit less baby-friendly.
Well that was an interesting week
It has been a long time since I’ve been this happy to see a Friday night. It’s the end of my first full week back at work since the birth of our daughter. It’s the end of a week that … Continue reading
Why I love the Internet
Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread … Continue reading