Tag: Santa Cruz
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Town, gown, beach, mountain, newspaper: An imaginary partnership between UCSC and the Santa Cruz Sentinel
What happens when thousands of undergraduates looking for a good time seasonally invade a small California town with its ethos firmly planted in 1968 and its economy floating unabated in the real estate bubble of 2004-2007? Find out on the next episode of “Keep Santa Cruz Weird.” I kid. I kid because I (still) love…
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Looking back: My year at the Santa Cruz Sentinel
For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 2007, first in a position accurately titled Webmaster, and later as the Online Editor, working in a mostly bright, young newsroom in downtown Santa Cruz, blocks from the Pacific…
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You have 17 nights left to Challenge yourself.
I remember where I was the first time I read about the Knight News Challenge and was inspired enough to blog about it. A tire shop. This one: (Photo yanked from Google Maps Street View.) Seriously, it was late in September 2006 and I was sitting with my huge beast of a laptop in the…
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The 12seconds Barter Challenge
A Santa Cruz startup looks to develop through bartering goods and services. The 12seconds Barter Challenge
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Citizen Santa Cruz » Blog Archive » What I’d Like To Know
Frequently Asked Questions about Santa Cruz, posed as a way to seed citizen journalism in town. Citizen Santa Cruz » Blog Archive » What I’d Like To Know
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TodaysMama – Santa Cruz/Monterey Mama – Home
Parenting site starts an edition in my town – sort of – as always, it’s hard to be local unless you have local humans driving participation. Of course, they’re advertising on the local newspaper.com. TodaysMama – Santa Cruz/Monterey Mama – Home
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Map thyself
{Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.} I’ve written pretty extensively…
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Holiday Lights map – SantaCruzSentinel.com
Our local paper is using ZeeMaps.com to serve up a map of decked out houses, businesses and events this holiday season. You can add your own spots to the map. We might actually use this to take a little tour around town soon. Holiday Lights map – SantaCruzSentinel.com
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Editor Tom Honig to leave Sentinel; Don Miller named new editor – Santa Cruz Sentinel
Congratulations and condolences, in whatever order you choose. Editor Tom Honig to leave Sentinel; Don Miller named new editor – Santa Cruz Sentinel
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Seven notes, six links
Hypothesis: Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb. Plea: Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good…