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  • My potential thesis has reared its bloggy head

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    Regular readers (both of you) might have noticed slow posting here lately, but really regular readers will recall that this happens at the end of every semester as I ramp up the whole term-paper-writing thing. This semester, I’m plugging away at what will become the literature review for my thesis. It’s all about blogging-at-newspapers. I’m…

  • Header graphic nostalgia

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    New header graphic and a couple other visual tweaks here today. The image is Somewhere East of Albuquerque, and I took it while driving a U-Haul truck full of all my worldly things, probably on September 3rd or 4th, 2001. It was a little less than five years ago that I met the woman who…

  • Student media under fire

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    I’ve got a guest column in today’s Spartan Daily that elaborates on the dangers of the Hosty v. Carter decision, what State Assemblyman Leland Yee wants to do about it, and why we’re actually pretty safe on public campuses in sunny California. Here’s an excerpt from the column: “College newspapers often boast that they are…

  • Notes on the perils of constructed objectivity

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    I mentioned objectivity a few posts ago, with the promise that I’d get around to putting up something I wrote on the topic for a class. I’m not going into the details of “What’s a literature review?” and I’m certainly ignoring the question “What’s a mini-lit-review?” For your enjoyment, here’s my short literature review on…

  • Site notes

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    A couple tweaks here lately. I’ve added a feed in the sidebar that pulls in everything I post to my del.icio.us account, and I’m using it to post links to useful and timely things like news stories about the McClatchy/Knight Ridder sale process, webcasts of cool conferences, and blog posts about how to save the…

  • The print edition – y’know – for kids

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    Fellow SJSU grad student Patrick Dwire has a great cover story in this week’s Santa Cruz Good Times, one of our intrepid alternative weeklies here in the Cruz. Patrick takes a look at what newspapers all over the country are doing to try and hook the 18-24 set. (Note to self: I’m not the target…

  • Katie, Katie, Katie: Why the anchor is still important

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    A handful of New Media pundits have been questioning the wisdom CBS had in hiring Katie Couric away from the Today Show to plant her in the anchor’s chair on the evening news. Granted, CBS is spending gobs of money they could be putting into other projects, but think about this: With more unbundled media…

  • About those panel discussions

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    Last night I attended Who Needs Ink?, a panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers. This wasn’t the first Commonwealth Club panel I’d been to, and the format left me just as unsatisfied as the event I went to last year around this time. I don’t get that much out of hearing four speakers bat…

  • Travel the world, meet interesting people, blog for the New York Times

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    Win a trip to the developing world with Nick Kristof. What? And you won’t just be watching. I want you to report as well – probably in a Web log or video blog on the New York Times Web site, maybe in some other way. I’m open to other ideas as well, but I want…

  • The audience question

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    At some point, I realized that someone other than my mother might actually be reading this blog. If we choose to accept that as a fact, then the following question presents itself pretty rapidly: “Who the heck IS reading this?” Please, don’t answer that just yet. The real question, of course, is “Who am I…