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Five

February 1, 2010

When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was called “Big Silver Robot,” it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month.
Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a [...]

Blog posts I have written and not written this year

December 23, 2009

Hey, would ya look at that, the year’s almost over. And while I’m not the biggest fan of arbitrary divisions of time, I sure do like making lists.
Year-end lists are little nuggets of candy that fall from the sky like sweet, sweet hail, and every now and then, it’s the end of a decade, and [...]

Sometimes, I show up in person and talk about journalism

November 23, 2009

Just a quick programming note:
If you’ve ever seen me in person, perhaps giving a short presentation and talking about journalism, blogs, social media, innovation at newspapers, or my own projects, you can now find related notes, slides, and links on my Speaking page.
I’ll keep that updated.

How I share: A tour of my personal linking behavior

May 12, 2009

Things you may have noticed about me in recent days, weeks, months, or years:

I don’t write blog posts as often as I used to.
I share links all over the place, and I have for a long time now.
I have a new job that involves a lot of thinking about best practices for journalists who link [...]

If I had the time, I would write about Digital Sunlight, Bring a Professor Night, and BarCamp NewsInnovation

February 18, 2009

Publish2 begins a Digital Sunlight campaign, encouraging citizen journalists to contribute information about stimulus spending to a pool of coverage.
Next Sunday is “Bring A Professor Night” at CollegeJourn, a new-ish weekly live chat about the state of student media and j-school.
BarCamp NewsInnovation is growing quickly, and about as distributed as can be expected, with upcoming [...]