Posted in journalism, true stories, tagged desert tortoises Fort Irwin, war Barstow Mojave desert turtles on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
When my brother was about five years old, I gave him a carved onyx turtle for his birthday. I still have a snapshot of his ear-to-ear grin as he clutched his palm-sized prize. He was so innocently oblivious of the war then raging across the American fabric and the death toll in Vietnam.
Turtles became a [...]
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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Bucees, just for fun, roadside signs, true stories, tagged beavers, boxer shorts, Bucees, Luling Texas, neck rest on January 7, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in just for fun, true stories, university, tagged acapella choir, Christmas, driedel, indiana university on December 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t care if it has already gotten 5 million YouTube pageviews and was made in 1998. This version of the Twelve Days of Christmas by Straight No Chaser at Indiana University is worth another click or three:
Posted in just for fun, true stories, tagged Central Market, Christmas, H-E-B, hopping, pecan pie on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
hand to hand combat in the baking aisle
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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 [...]
Posted in true stories, tagged Big Bend, el paso, fog, interstate 10, McDonald Observatory on December 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s 38 degrees and socked in fog on Interstate 10 about 175 miles east of El Paso.
The McDonald Observatory can’t see a thing.
Funny the things Ithaca and Big Bend country have in common today: Cold pea soup.
True story.
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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
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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 [...]
