September 2010
30 posts
Patrick Beeson: If it’s free, there’s no warranty. That’s a great point. Embedding freebies comes with a price! #newstrain
Patrick Besson’s presentation at http://sotiny.us/BCN #newstrain
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
Media coach Mike Roberts suggests “First Break all the Rules” as great management book. Just ordered it http://amzn.to/byAIHr #newstrain
Embedded google tables ,other widgets aren’t liked by Google, so add titles, descriptions, links. Give Google reason to index. #newstrain
LA Times mapping the neighborhoods project. http://lat.ms/9eMFFh #newstrain
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 example of paring down photos for side show that tells a story. Living in Room 202, Azcentral. http://bit.ly/9TNgR7 #newstrain
Great reading for later: http://diveintohtml5.org/ … for when I want to dive into HTML5! #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!-,;:”!?.
Gutchecks ahead of time help reporters think on their feet out in the field. #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
Ask reporter: what’s the most important thing about this story? Focus, focus. Avoid surprises. #newstrain
Great ex. of conceiving ahead on city council meeting to elevate pedestrian story to exemplary. Lap dancer: http://bit.ly/aEQcB9 #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
(con’t) I agree there are lots of rogue aggregators and poor practices … But I credit readers w/ “figuring out” good stuff. #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
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
RT @patrickbeeson: Just finished presenting at #newstrain. Will present to the other track tomorrow. (Looking forward to session on data! )
Great to have John Quinn at #Newstrain — champion of diversity and father/founder of Chips Quinn Scholars.
http://bit.ly/bLUXCv
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.