Posted in bush, digital journalism, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, true stories, tagged caucus, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, KNPR State of Nevada, Mike Huckabee, primary, squirrel, UNLV, UNR on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some followup notes from my delightful conversation this morning on KNPR’s State of Nevada, with host Dave Berns and his panel of so-called “witty academics.” (The audio with David Damore, Ken Fernandez and me from University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Eric Herzik of University of Nevada, Reno, is here.)
During the show, I mentioned a [...]
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Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, journalism, true stories, university, tagged Clark County Housing Authority, digital journalism, Embarq, Kristen Ruby, Las Vegas Sun, Tim Pratt, UNLV, YouTube on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s one of my basic rules of journalism, and never has it been so delightfully true as today, when we can not only tell you what someone said, but let you hear how they said it — in their own voice.
One of my students got a very rude awakening last semester thanks to an Embarq [...]
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Posted in journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, tagged ABC video, Barack Obama, Dave Berns, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Tears, KNPR, mochila, Nevada caucus, New Hampshire primary, UNLV, UNR, YouTube on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time.
— Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author
(thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)
So “The [...]
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We managed to leave Buc-ees without this gem — a beaver neck rest complete with smiling Buc-ee face, paws and a flat tail. The store on I-10 has added a lot of beaverphernalia, including boxers, but no briefs.
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Posted in news business, online news business, true stories, user generated content, tagged Central Market, citizen journalism, cookbook, green chile, Hatch, recipe, San Antonio, snow, user generated content on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas
What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content?
People will buy it.
Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff.
The numbers are overwhelming and [...]
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