I saw a message on Twitter from Dave Cohn yesterday late in the afternoon that said he was set to interview Craig Newmark in 30 minutes. (Actually, I saw it 19 minutes after he posted it, so he was probably on the way out the door if not on the street when I replied.)
Today, Dave [...]
All about reporting
Twitter hints for reporters
December 13, 2007
Meeting story hydraulics
November 6, 2007
John Robinson, editor at the Greensboro News & Record, on stepping away from the “meeting story”:
“Welcome to the world of hard choices. It’s always been this way. We don’t cover everything. We don’t even cover what we used to. Newspaper staffs are getting smaller, yet the number of meetings and events, of commissions and government [...]
Seven notes, six links
November 1, 2007
Hypothesis:
Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb.
Plea:
Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good ideas that [...]
Obligatory Twitterquake post
October 31, 2007
So last night, around 8 p.m. California time, a rather large truck was idling in front of our building.
That was what it felt like at first, then the wife and I looked at each other and said the magic word: “Earthquake.”
Whoa.
We scrambled for a few seconds, made some moves to grab the kid and get [...]
Three blog posts I haven’t had the time to write yet
August 27, 2007
These are not un-busy times.
Without further explanation or caveat, here are a few things kicking around in my head, if not necessarily in pixels just yet:
What Are You Reporting On?: An explanation of the idea and how the Twitter ID, the Facebook group, the WordPress.com blog, the Knight News Challenge grant application, and the allusions [...]