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Inspired by design

Posted in digital journalism on September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We’ve chosen core components of the NOWCastSA home page, and it’s fair to say we’ve been inspired by the way some other folks have designed their sites.
Here’s what we like and why.
Because video is an important element of the site, we’d like to be able to feature it prominently. Perhaps it might look something [...]

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The Twitters tell the story

Posted in Twitter, crowdsourcing, digital journalism, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, user generated content on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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Newspapers don’t own journalism

Posted in 9/11, First Amendment, bloggers, digital journalism, journalism, news business, online news business on March 4, 2009 | 23 Comments »

I always thought it was odd to hear flat out declarations that there can be no life on other planets in the absence of water. How egocentric! So you’re saying that life can only exist if it’s precisely like us?
Really?
That’s the feeling I’m getting right now in the woe-is-us, hand-wringing sob-fest about whether life and [...]

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Visualizing Twitter

Posted in Twitter, digital journalism, online news business, social networking, user generated content, tagged , , on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

New Twitter applications just keep getting more and more fun, but they are tough to keep track of.
Here’s a delightful and encompassing post from Flowing Data on 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe.
(Call me crazy, but it reminds me of “Visualize Whirled Peas.” )
The blog’s author, Nathan Yau, says he is a UCLA [...]

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Saul Alinsky would be proud

Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, facebook, journalism, news business, online news business, university, user generated content, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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Fried squirrel, politics and the media

Posted in bush, digital journalism, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, true stories, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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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Quote ‘em if they can’t take a joke

Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, journalism, true stories, university, tagged , , , , , , , 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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