Category: Ideas
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WANTED: podcasting rig suggestions
I’ve surfed the forums, I’ve listened to podcasts about podcasting, and I’ve read what there is to read, but it all gets so outdated so quickly. So, faithful readers (both of you), who has suggestions for a podcasting rig? I need to it to come in under $400 (not my money, don’t worry), preferably under…
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links for 2006-02-20
brooklynvegan: Union Square Pillow Fight 2006, NYC | pics Yes, a pillowfight. Got a problem with that? Makes me miss living in a city where this many people can plan an amusing disruption… (tags: public+displays+of+disruption pillowfight newyork nyc new+york) The Chronicle: 2/17/2006: New York’s New J-School City University of New York journalism grad school. (tags:…
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William Safire, goofy grammarian
Of course, I’m not a big fan of Safire’s politics, but his language column in the NY Times Magazine on Sundays used to hold my interest for some portion of the 30 seconds it took me to flip past the stories to the crossword. And now, this, a weird take on the vocabulary of the…
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links for 2006-02-18
Neowin’s Freeware Alternative List – Neowin.net Long list of free software – including plenty of non-GYM products. (tags: software freeware) The J-Life Heh – Steve Greene is talking his students into blogging. Cool. This one writes for the Daily, too. (tags: sjsu j-school)
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An interview with John McManus of Grade the News
As promised, loyal readers (both of you), I tracked down John McManus, director of Grade the News, to follow up on a report in the Palo Alto Weekly that the five-year-old media watchdog group was in danger of losing its funding, and thus, its life. Truth be told, McManus isn’t that hard to find. He…
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Save Grade the News
Palo Alto Weekly is reporting that Grade the News, currently headquartered in Dwight Bentel Hall in a room just outside the photo studio/student lounge, is out of cash, and about to be out on the street. The article in the Weekly says that the content analysis watchdog group needs $180,000 — its annual budget —…
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links for 2006-02-16
Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits – A student experiment in the new news “This summer, 40 journalism graduate students will embark on an adventure — one whose goals are to better inform the public and to experiment with new ways of presenting news and information.” (tags: college+newspapers j-school online+journalism multimedia journalism graduate+school) If Robots Ever…
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How to write about a lawsuit
Remember when I said I would stop linking to my own stories in the Daily? Er…um… I worked on this one for about two weeks. Lawsuit writing lesson*: He claimed to have charged, in the lawsuit, that the defendant allegedly made claims of allegations, according to the suit. The plaintiff charges that allegations were made…
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Profile writing is easy when your subject is a really nice guy
By the way, the story I wrote about Dan Goldston for yesterday’s Spartan Daily is the best thing I’ve written yet since I went back to school and started writing journalism in my classes. (Note to myself: this is one to send to Grandma.) But of course, writing a profile on someone is just WAY…