Comments on: One of my friends named Kim http://charlotteanne.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/one-of-my-friends-named-kim/ Thoughts about the news business, online journalism and telling true stories Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:13:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kim http://charlotteanne.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/one-of-my-friends-named-kim/#comment-88 Kim Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:29:49 +0000 http://charlotteanne.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/one-of-my-friends-named-kim/#comment-88 Thanks for that! Would we have ever dreamed of these wonderful, time-saving, connecting applications while cutting amberlith for the weather page at DTH so many, many years ago! Although, I hate to admit to the kids I work with here that DTH was one of the first newspapers to have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Macintosh_128k_transparency.png" rel="nofollow">macs</a> ... while we all sat around trying to figure out how we would ever use that silly machine ... a month or so later, learning Adobe Illustrator for the first time, then learning to "cut mugs" in photoshop, then building pages in Quark ... and when I mention these things ... they look at me like I am a dinosaur (ok, I am closing in on that description). Now, flash forward to the future of flash, css, pounce, twitter, flickr, blogs ... kids coming out of school knowing all of these wonderful things ... not having to learn them on--the-job ;) We've come a long way ... what a fun journey. ;) Thanks for that! Would we have ever dreamed of these wonderful, time-saving, connecting applications while cutting amberlith for the weather page at DTH so many, many years ago! Although, I hate to admit to the kids I work with here that DTH was one of the first newspapers to have macs … while we all sat around trying to figure out how we would ever use that silly machine … a month or so later, learning Adobe Illustrator for the first time, then learning to “cut mugs” in photoshop, then building pages in Quark … and when I mention these things … they look at me like I am a dinosaur (ok, I am closing in on that description). Now, flash forward to the future of flash, css, pounce, twitter, flickr, blogs … kids coming out of school knowing all of these wonderful things … not having to learn them on–the-job ;)
We’ve come a long way … what a fun journey. ;)

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