Tag: San Jose
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The Carnival of Journalism Revival Traveling Medicine Show
A couple years back, a sprawling cadre of journalism bloggers (myself included) participated — at least, for a few months — in a blog carnival. Now without getting into the sordid details of what makes a blog carnival, and [INSERT CRACK ABOUT HOW NOBODY BLOGS ANYMORE BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE THE TWITTERS AND WHATNOTS], it…
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RIP Mercury News – Michael Bazeley
Mike’s thoughtful (and painful) take on the falling fortunes of the Merc go into some detail about the organizational challenges faced by those who would innovate there if they were free to. RIP Mercury News – Michael Bazeley
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Mercury falling
[NOTE: What follows is a view of the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view, as a graduate student in the neighborhood, a reporter (and later as an editor) working for the same parent company, and even as a reader. I don’t pretend to know…
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Rethink carefully.
I’m posting the following as a comment on the Mercury News Rethink blog in response to Jay Rosen’s call for input as to how a Merc beatblogger on green technology could have covered the “Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins” story this week. I’m going to throw a monkeywrench at the Rethink works here, just to…
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Wanted: online graphic designer – Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley
This is the sort of job you might see more metro papers hiring for: “…we want them to know Flash, HTML and CSS, how to draw, have some print experience and most of all, have a nice design sense.” Wanted: online graphic designer – Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley
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Deal’s done: Mercury News’ new owner takes over – MercuryNews
All your newspapers are belong to us. Deal’s done: Mercury News’ new owner takes over – MercuryNews
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Wabbit season, duck season, conference season, soccer season
I missed Vloggercon and Bloggercon. Gnomedex was too far away. The World Cup – also a bit of distance to cover (Yeah, so we were in Italy for most of it, but who’s counting.). Okay, that wasn’t a conference, and I did manage to watch quite a bit of it, including the final (Forza Azzurri!).…
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San Jose Blogger Meetup
San Jose Blogger Meetup – Tuesday June 27th, 6pm. I won’t make it this time, but this sounds like a great idea to me. Everyone’s welcome, from SJSU students to A-Listers, and everyone in between, not to mention above or below. Yeah, so I’ll probably be, um, eating pizza that night, but in Sicily.
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Geek pizza dinner tonight
Just a reminder: There’s a geek dinner tonight for anyone and everyone interested in talking about the New Media (lab?) class being offered next semester at SJSU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. If you’re an undergrad or grad student planning on taking classes in the department next semester, stop by for a slice (and/or…