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  • Enough handwringing, let’s get down to business

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    What’s the future of news? What does the audience want? What will the dead-trees edition be able to do about either? Lately, it seems like these questions are brought up by newspaper editors and journalism educators fraught with worry over what will become of their medium and of their readership. (And the children! Won’t somebody…

  • All your snakes are belong to us

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    It works on so many levels… [youtube]ihAoSwQqo44[/youtube] This is the part where I’m supposed to make some intelligent comment about how the nature of the Web, social networking, cheap bandwidth, and digital video are encouraging content creation and remixing on an unprecedented scale, but I think I’ll skip that in favor of snaking about the…

  • Doing the South(east) Asia thing

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    No, not me, but lots of my friends this summer. Daniel went to Nepal, Diana went to the Phillipines, Kent went all over the place, and Tom is back in Laos, after rambles all over Thailand and Myanmar and those sorts of places. All of them are photographers or writers or both, and not just…

  • The difference between writing for this blog and that newspaper

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    I don’t get to see the freaking traffic data at the newspaper. Where’s my stats page? I want to hit refresh every 45 seconds. At least at the Daily I had access to that. (Subtle note to self: get hired by the online part of a newspaper just so you can know how many people…

  • Dave and Steve are trying to take all the fun out of my job

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    I’m reluctant to even address the meme for fear it might spread, but to any sort of reporter, the e-mail interview, or worse, sending questions in advance and quoting from a blogged response, is a horrible, horrible thing. They teach us in j-school to get people on the phone whenever possible, and frankly, they’re right.…

  • Reinvent one thing at a time

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    I’ve had an exciting week. Talking to profs and students at the AEJMC convention really lit the proverbial fire under my ass, and I’ve been able to get started on a database (Okay, so it’s just a spreadsheet at the moment.) that will be the kernel of my thesis data. Meanwhile, I put together a…

  • Making the inconvenient accessible

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    We finally made it out to see An Inconvenient Truth last night. Remind me again why Al Gore isn’t running for President in 2008? Sorry, but I haven’t heard a good enough reason. Personally, I’d like to see him grow his beard back, put on a flannel shirt and a pair of jeans, and go…

  • Conference call

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    I’ll be at AEJMC today in San Francisco, probably in the ethics and citizen journalism panel in the early morning and then the newspapers and journalism education panel at midday. Where will I be in between? Hanging out in the hallway, talking to you. But watch out – I’m working on a story, so I…

  • Search drives serendipity, a continuing conversation

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    [Ed. note: This is the text of an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment a J-School professor from the University of Florida left on a post from a couple months ago regarding Serendipity on the Web. Part of his reply is posted at the end of this post.] Hi Prof. McKeen – Thanks…

  • This is only a test

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    Just a quick check of the MySQL databases here to make sure everything’s in order after a little server upgrade.