So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.
Lord, let your laughter ring forth.
-Molly Ivins
I am one lucky journo.
So many times in the past 30 years I paused, looked up to the heavens, and thanked the stars that someone was actually paying me to do this fabulous [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Twitter, bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, social networking, user generated content, tagged AP, BBC, Forrester, journalism, KPBS, marketing, NBC, New York Times, news, Pistachio, public relations, Smart Mobs, statistics, TED, Tweet, Twitter, Wiki on March 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
What is Twitter?
It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less.
And it is a place to listen.
Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around the world. They [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, facebook, journalism, news business, online news business, university, user generated content, tagged Epic 2015, facebook, Flickr, Google, Microsoft, Saul Alinksy, student journalists, Twitter, Yahoo on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us.
One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO to [...]
Read Full Post »
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 [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, true stories, tagged , Aspen Institute, CNN Democratic candidate debate, J.D. Lasica, mobile, moblogging, Roundable on Mobile Media and Civic engagement, SF State, Twitter, UNLV, Utterz on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like a [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in bloggers, facebook, journalism, online news business, texas media, true stories, tagged Dallas Times Herald, designer, facebook, illustrator, Kim Carney, LinkedIn, photographer, Redmond on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What’s Happening Cover
Originally uploaded by Something To See
Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons.
Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else.
That’s the case with my friend [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in First Amendment, bloggers, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, true stories, tagged CNN, Democratic Presidential Debate, Emily, facebook, hurricane, Katrina, Media, Motorola mobile phone, MySanAntonio.com, MySpace, Radio Shack TRS-80, Rita, UNLV, Utterz on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and text [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in bloggers, journalism, online news business, social networking, tagged billionaire, blog advertising, Dallas Mavericks, facebook, Icerocket, Mark Cuban, NBA, sponsored blogs on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Easy for him to say.
Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks and a net worth north of $2 billion, also happens to be a blogger. So when he came to speak at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, a couple hundred bloggers showed up and listened up.
Cuban said a lot of provocative things, but [...]
Read Full Post »
Just a quick note that I will be on a panel at Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas this morning talking about blogging ethics.
This should be a great discussion, and I will recap it here later today. As the students in my Digital Storytelling class at UNLV know, we’ve spent almost as much time on [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in bloggers, bush, journalism, news business, texas media, true stories, tagged Ann Richards, Dallas Times Herald, George Bush, Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, media objectivity, Molly Ivins, texas media, Texas Monthly on October 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Note: I was asked to be on Nevada Public Radio’s KNPR State of Nevada program on Oct. 2 with host Dave Berns and Marvin Kitman discuss Kitman’s piece in The Nation Magazine proposing that CBS Evening News hire Keith Olbermann, the opinionated host of Countdown on MSNBC. Here’s a link to the audio from [...]
Read Full Post »
