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  • A Globe, Clothing Itself With A Brain*

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    *Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? This morning, I was listening to the pReboot podcast of Robert Scoble being interviewed by Nicole Simon. (mp3) It’s been fun playing the “keeping up with Scoble” game since he spoke at SJSU last February…yeah, yeah, I got Scobleized. The best part is listening to his schtick ideas evolve over time…

  • Nostalgia for Watergate

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    A great little piece in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh. It’s a great snapshot of what it was like to be on the Watergate story at a paper other than the Washington Post.

  • Digital Journalism Class

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    …not the Online Journalism class I’m taking next Fall, but this Spring’s Digital Journalism class at NYU: they’ve launched a webzine: This Is Not A Blog. There’s about a dozen short articles, including bits profiling Romenesko and Craig Newmark, some web design ideas, and plenty about blogs. The fun thing for me is to see…

  • Citizen Journalism Ground Rules

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    Here’s a tough question from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits Column: Someone goes on a murder/suicide kick on Tuesday morning. Five dead including the killer. A newspaper starts covering the story online. The police haven’t released the suspect’s name yet, so the paper doesn’t print it. A reader thinks she has figured out who the killer is,…

  • Good Ol’ Boys

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    To all those who have asked me the question, re: blogging, “Is anyone making money at this?” I am not getting paid $100,000 to blog about the Dukes of Hazzard for a year…but Christopher Nelson is. Check out CNN/Money on the subject, as well as Steve Rubel’s post. Couldn’t they just have hired some marketing…

  • World Photo Day

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    World Photo Day ended at 5pm Pacific (midnight GMT), but you can still upload an image you captured anytime on June 1st. I pocketed my digital Point & Shoot on the way to the Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market (I fully believe that apostrophe belongs there) and grabbed a few images. I ended up posting this…

  • Yahoo News/Mail Up To Something?

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    I noticed a few hours ago that my normal Yahoo mail screen (the first thing I see at mail.yahoo.com after logging in) now lists a handful of “Top Stories” or “World” or my choice of one out of a few news categories. I know they’re just catching up with the whole Google Fusion thing (which…

  • More staged media with the Governor Schwarzenegger

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    I know I’m late, but the long weekend swallowed up most of my political anger/impatience/responsiblity. So, last Friday’s San Francisco Chronicle has this story of a completely, 100% staged media event featuring the Governor of California, who happens to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. A work crew dug a pothole out of a San Jose street, and…

  • Open Letter to J-School Class of 2005

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    Bitter much? Have something against Journalism Profs? It’s craft school, of course, and they are teaching the craft of journalism, the last time I checked, not How To Save The World 101.

  • Why is it that only marketers know how to get a message across?

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    Every time I find someone who really gets story structure, or how to sell a story to the public, it’s a Marketing type.