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All about my new home

by sdulai on Aug 31, 2007 • No Comments

Well I made it, I’m in New Mexico, day one of tomorrow and the next six months. Albuquerque reminds me a lot of a Reno and San Jose hybrid. It’s kind of in a valley like San Jose, well not really, it just looks like that at night when you’re seeing lights for the first...

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Blogopaloza, it’s del.icio.us!

by sdulai on Aug 30, 2007 • No Comments

This is my pledge to you, I will post something new everyday for the next two weeks. Why? I’m curious to see what happens. Also, late last year I finally added my del.icio.us feed to SLR, you can find it in the column on the right, just scroll down a bit. I’ve been posting a...

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Save the earth+ Burning man… something doesn’t add up

by sdulai on Aug 27, 2007 • No Comments

Here’s my random thought of the day… Burning man is coming up quick and out of curiosity I thought I’d look into how to get there. I found the usual tour bus stuff, trains to Reno and a couple of posts on Craigslist from folks looking to split the gas, but a few that caught...

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It’s like clock work, Canon announces the 40D

by sdulai on Aug 25, 2007 • No Comments

Yeah it’s basically an advertisement for Canon, but the 40D has finally been made official, that’s awesome! (Time to pick up a 30D on the cheap?) It brings the Live View from the MarkIII, bumps up the pixels to 10 million, brings over the dust reducing sensor shake from the Rebel XTi and is just...

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How is news changing? Ask some experts!

by sdulai on Aug 23, 2007 • No Comments

I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about new media and how it is going to change the news business and what we need to do to make sure we change with it. There’s been more than a few posts here on SLR and talks in person to anyone willing to listen....

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I’m taking the left turn in Albuquerque

by sdulai on Aug 18, 2007 • No Comments

By the time many of you (hey, maybe both of you can compare notes!) read this I’ll be on my way to ABQ, New Mexico. I’ve not said much about it thus far on SLR, but back in June I was accepted for a six-month internship at the Albuquerque Journal and I start on Monday...

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Ike bien en German spam

by sdulai on Aug 18, 2007 • No Comments

So it seems that my last post was converted to German and posted on a weird blog, which I can only assume is spam. 3 things come to mind: 1. WTF 2. How do you find these things Ryan? 3. What can I do to make sure this happens again. It’s a bold new frontier...

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Woo-hoo! SJSU is (back) in the house!

by sdulai on Aug 17, 2007 • No Comments

Just moments ago, SJSU PJ Department head Dr. D. Michael Cheers, and this summers fellow at National Geographic, sent me an e-mail that our project, formerly under wraps, had a new national backer. National Geographic. He asked me to pass the word, so, here we go: National Geographic has joined The San Jose Mercury News...

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Day one in New York City

by sdulai on Aug 8, 2007 • No Comments

On Tuesday I got into New York City, it’s my first time here and my first thought is, “wow, it’s hot here, I should have packed my T-shirts.” My next thought is, “wow, this place is amazing.” I can see why people love this place. I hopped on a bus and rode out to Harlem....

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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