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...
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...
Will Smith and kids not shocked by Miley’s VMA performance; how did so many get it wrong?
Last night, if you haven’t been bombarded by it enough already (lucky you), was MTVs Video Music Awards show. Also known as that show Colbert has a beef with now. I didn’t see it, but this morning I was forced to catch up for work. If you’d told me a couple of year ago the...
“Because we’re pussies” – Ira Glass. And a dozen other answers from his Reddit AMA
Ever since Louis CK logged on to Reddit about a year ago for one of the website’s signature AMAs (Ask me Anything), celebraties have been a fairly regular occurrence on the popular website. Following President Obama’s AMA in late August, the flood gates have really opened and every day there’s a new famous person falling...
How I feel having my social media invaded by #ONA12
Over the last couple of days I’ve been seeing all my friends posting about one cool or interesting thing after another that’s happening at ONA, and I just find myself wishing I could be a part of it. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to join them in San Francisco so instead I’m making memes. Be...
The Super Bowl of Journalism: A #SOTU Round Up
You could say that the president’s State of the Union address each year is like the Super Bowl of web journalism. If you won’t say it, I will. It’s a single manageable time of immense importance and scrutiny and every news org is experimenting to take advantage of the web and jostling to become the top shared news provider for the...
Miller’s Crossing
Ralph Miller doesn’t complain about the back aches or the mice chewing up crops or the lack of hands around the farm. The 77-year-old retired minister knows what he singed up for and he wears it all with a smile. We are always building on the past, yet unified in our signaler endeavor of eking...
Multimedia that made me go f’yea! in 2011
It’s the end of the year and that usually means two things, left overs and best of lists. This year saw a lot of newsworthy events from the Arab Spring to OWS, Obama got Osama to Rick Perry trying to remember three things, it was a year packed with news events and continued debate about what journalism’s of...
Rocky Mountain News stops the presses
Today the last issue of the Rocky came off the presses and as the ink dried on the page, the last truck left the facilities and the newsroom doors close, it marks the end of another great photo paper. We’ve lost too many in recent years. Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. Also check...
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There are some Happy Journalist out there Auntie Em
A while back I (along with every other blogger out there?) posted about AngryJournalist. Well, in those early days it seemed like a cool idea, but what I saw in the continuing weeks was very disheartening. I’m not talking about the few fights that broke out from people calling others out on not being more...
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The best layout in the history of newspapers (take a long hard look)
Do you see it? No? Focus on the center. Take a look at the two pictures, and no they aren’t from the same story. It maybe hard to read here, but the top image is a stand alone feature and the one below it is a news story on a stolen wallet, the surveillance camera...
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Organizing photos goes all Philip K. Dick
I don’t write about technology often, I know, this coming from the guy that posts about video-hosting websites, new cameras, RAW processing and Microsoft’s table computer thing, but honest I don’t do it often, check! Anywho I was looking at the Natchway speech from the TED awards again, and I saw this other video on...
