December 2011
1 post
Public comments at Troy City Council meeting are taking aim directly at Mayor Janice Daniels. Watch live, join chat. http://t.co/uzSJ9Cpu
November 2011
4 posts
RT @_danaboerkoel3: Its funny that I was rooting for the blue/yellow team earlier and hating white/red. Complete opposite right now! #olsm
#360panorama http://t.co/eSIPbt8N from Ford Field … well it’s not exactly 360, more like 180! From MHSAA football state finals.
Renovated Cranbrook Art Museum is getting a lot of attention nationwide. Here’s a peek inside from Friday’s opening. http://t.co/8vAluPMG
The buzz about Cranbrook's 'New' Art Museum
Michigan’s Cranbrook Art Museum aims to enliven collection, inspire artists …At the Cranbrook Art Museum, one goal rises above all others: No hidden treasures. The 80-year-old contemporary art museum north of Detro…The Washington PostCranbrook addition masterfully connects to Saarinen’s modern masterpieceEliel Saarinen, born in Finland in 1873, came to the United States as...
October 2011
1 post
Bloomfield Wordle
April 2011
4 posts
The kid in me wants very much to go play pinball all day Saturday at Oakland University’s Pinball Exp. @rochesterpatch http://bit.ly/gvSDxL
62% of crowd says tax the cigarettes and beer. #issues&ale
Sen. Johnson said there used to be 36 cities that got revenue sharing. Now there are more than 700. #issues&ale
Where would you invest? Same categories ….Crowd’s first choice is education (59%) … health care is 2, social services 3 #issues&ale
March 2011
6 posts
George Clooney in Clawson for filming of “Ides of March.” Seen him? @clawsonpatch http://bit.ly/htnRWg
I see someone at the MHSAA has a sense of humor: RT @MHSAA: No give in the Trojans — they cut it to four with 2:20 to play.
Recent OU grad living in Japan gives first-person account from quake and tsunami: “I thought ‘Well, I might die today.” http://bit.ly/fIHWx7
RT @greena11: RT @karlgude: Confessions of a New York Times #infographics addict: This is where I get my fix. http://bit.ly/hda67X #dataviz
Roads in Oakland County are snow-covered and slippery, but I-75 South between The Palace and Square Lake was moving steadily about 10 p.m.
Social media checklist
A friend passed this link from zombiejournalism.com on to me, and I think it’s a terrific checklist for accountability on social media. We are so quick these days to use twitter and facebook in our reporting without checking and verifying the facts we find there, or even the veracity of the person behind the posts.
October 2010
3 posts
Howard Kurtz: Digital news is not “crowding out” the old media and may even be “reinvigorating them.” http://wapo.st/cp9rDP
The first Patch site in Michigan is now live, led by editor Jessica Nunez @plymouthpatch. Check out http://plymouth-mi.patch.com/
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First Michigan Patch, yeah! →
I had forgotten how much launching a website is similar to birthing a baby. The anticipation is great and exhilarating; the process is painful; the feeling when it’s over is … relief, pride and happiness. And you are TIRED.
I can’t possibly REALLY compare having my child to the birth of the first Michigan Patch site in Plymouth but it has been interesting riding that roller...
September 2010
30 posts
Michael Roberts on ethics of social media: Credibility is hard to get, hard to protect, and hard to get back if you lose it. #newstrain
Patrick Besson’s presentation at http://sotiny.us/BCN #newstrain
Patrick Beeson: If it’s free, there’s no warranty. That’s a great point. Embedding freebies comes with a price! #newstrain
LA Times mapping the neighborhoods project. http://lat.ms/9eMFFh #newstrain
Embedded google tables ,other widgets aren’t liked by Google, so add titles, descriptions, links. Give Google reason to index. #newstrain
Patrick Beeson on ways to tell stories with data: Reminding me how much I love interactive data projects! Charts in google. cool. #newstrain
RT @stevebuttry: Today is National Punctuation Day? Today is National Punctuation Day! Today is National Punctuation Day :) Love it!-,;:”!?.
Crowdmap.com as a great easy-to-use substitute for Ushahidi. com, which I really like. Making it easy for anyone to do crowdmaps. #newstrain
Great reading for later: http://diveintohtml5.org/ … for when I want to dive into HTML5! #newstrain
Great example of paring down photos for side show that tells a story. Living in Room 202, Azcentral. http://bit.ly/9TNgR7 #newstrain
Media coach Mike Roberts suggests “First Break all the Rules” as great management book. Just ordered it http://amzn.to/byAIHr #newstrain
It’s great that revisiting old concepts like the importance of spending time in conceiving and focusing on story ideas. #newstrain
Building beats: Find your guru or guide sources — the backpocket guides you turn to for context and understanding. #newstrain
Great session with Jacqui Banaszynski on helping reporters developing beats at #newstrain
Gutchecks ahead of time help reporters think on their feet out in the field. #newstrain
Great ex. of conceiving ahead on city council meeting to elevate pedestrian story to exemplary. Lap dancer: http://bit.ly/aEQcB9 #newstrain
AP’s Tom Curley on authentic, contextual storytelling told in sound, pictures: that skill can’t be duplicated by aggregators #newstrain
Curley: if you can’t resonate with community and tell a story, you lose. #newstrain
Curley likes universal sign-on. Not sure I buy us-vs-them characterization of race for news consumers. Who’s to say who’s “them”? #newstrain
Great to have John Quinn at #Newstrain — champion of diversity and father/founder of Chips Quinn Scholars.
http://bit.ly/bLUXCv
RT @patrickbeeson: Just finished presenting at #newstrain. Will present to the other track tomorrow. (Looking forward to session on data! )
Ask reporter: what’s the most important thing about this story? Focus, focus. Avoid surprises. #newstrain
Never EVER touch a story in even the littlest way before reading story in its entirety. This is a GREAT tip. I struggle w/this! #newstrain
Yeah! Fellow Patcher Bobbi Bowman conducting session at #newstrain #patch
(con’t) I agree there are lots of rogue aggregators and poor practices … But I credit readers w/ “figuring out” good stuff. #newstrain
RT @stevebuttry: http://nyti.ms/9jtRMd is an example of what I mean about going forward w/ basics in J-schools: http://bit.ly/9zQUz5
This blogger “got it” when it comes to Patch’s approach, down to terms of service he calls a “downright delight.” http://bit.ly/anXYoH
Excellent column by @stevebuttry on how journalism educators need to go forward with the basics - not back to them. http://bit.ly/9sI25O
Wow, reading #wherewereyou tweets is very moving. I was signing my daughter up for catechism class. Watched TV with friend, silent, stunned
#wherewereyou in a word cloud
Here’s what comes up when you do a wordle word map of the RSS feed of Twitter feeds with the hashtag #wherewereyou, at the end of the ninth anniversary of 9/11.
August 2010
3 posts
Great advice from @robertniles to the new crop of journalism students getting ready to enter classrooms. http://bit.ly/bV3paK