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It’s my birthday, I’ll count if I want to

Posted in digital journalism, journalism, news business, online news business, true stories, tagged , , , on November 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I’ve never been afraid to go places few women have gone before, and to take names and kick butt.
Thanks to my father, I learned to rebuild the engine in a 1964 Dodge Dart so I had a car to drive in 1974. (I named it Rocinante and aimed it at windmills.)
I won’t reiterate the litany [...]

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Crowdsourcing my mom’s cancer

Posted in crowdsourcing, true stories, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »

My mom has always been our clan’s chief information hunter and learner.
That is, until last week, when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer: Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.
Mom was a medical research librarian – someone who delighted in being a generous resource for journalists like me.
I remember her describing the day in 1981 or 1982 when a [...]

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Twitter 101

Posted in Twitter, bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, social networking, user generated content, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 3, 2008 | 17 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 [...]

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Blogging, journalism and ethics

Posted in bloggers, ethics, journalism, tagged , , , , on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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The original journalists

Posted in journalism, roadside signs, true stories, tagged , , on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

petroglyph
Originally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas
These petroglyphs were etched on a wall in in a wash at the Valley of Fire in southern Nevada more than 3,000 years ago.
There is something thrilling about the fact that I can take a picture of them with my Treo, and in a matter of minutes, upload it to [...]

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Students out to save the news biz

Posted in crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, social networking, tagged , , , , , , , on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s the reason for my slow posts this past couple weeks, as I and other faculty herded  students from seven universities to the Online News Association conference in Toronto to present youthful and innovative visions for the future of news.
First, a video of students from each of the three projects from MediaGiraffe.
I’m a little partial [...]

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