Tag: writing
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This boring headline is full of keywords
I’m having fun reading the headlines on all the blog posts that refer to a New York Times story from a few days ago. The story, which sported the headline “This Boring Headline Is Written For Google,” sort of half-explained the fact that online editors are now writing their headlines to specifically appeal to a…
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About those panel discussions
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…
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Robots take over SJSU Event Center
This is the robot story I couldn’t shut up about last weekend. Had a great time reporting/writing this one. Robots take over SJSU Event Center
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The audience question
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…
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KU School of Journalism and Mass Communications – John B. Bremner
Copy editing guru. KU School of Journalism and Mass Communications – John B. Bremner
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lenn®: 2005: The Longest Year, Pt. 1
This guy is Scoble’s old boss who left Microsoft to work for Skype. I feel like every time I’ve read anything he’s written, it’s this personal soul-bearing stuff, and it’s awesome. This guy needs to quit his job and write books. lenn®: 2005: The Longest Year, Pt. 1
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MercuryNews.com | 11/22/2005 | Manuel Chacón, 88, was revered patriarch
Excelent profile-style obit on a man who worked 20 years in SJSU’s cafeteria. MercuryNews.com | 11/22/2005 | Manuel Chacón, 88, was revered patriarch
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Writing old and new
Another new link on the sidebar: Other Writing, as in non-blogging. For now, there’s a few assignments from the semester of grad school I just finished, including my first unpublished journalism and a few book critiques. I also included one of my favorite things from my undergraduate years – an essay about the night I…