Monthly Archives: February 2011
Another appeal to help send high schoolers to NYC
Last week I blogged about high school journalists at my alma mater who won an award eight days ago and now have only a week to raise enough funds to get to New York City in time to accept it. … Continue reading
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Let’s build a better DC news aggregator. Chris Amico blogs for this month’s Carnival of Journalism about reducing the static vs. noise ratio in DC’s massive pool of news sources by creating a better aggregator.
2011′s State of the Spot. Following his continual standard of complete openness, David Cohn reflects on two years of Spot.us and sets goals for the future.
StrongLifts 5×5. This is the weightlifting program I officially started today after two weeks of technique and form training. It’s a 3x per week workout alternating between squats/benchpresses/barbell rows and squats/overhead raises/deadlifts. Yes, I recommend this workout for women.
What newsrooms can learn from tech startups. My latest post at 10,000 Words focuses on cultural cues that newsrooms can glean from tech startups. It’s been a surprisingly popular post this morning, making it to Media Gazer, Editor & Pubisher’s morning email newsletter, Poytner’s Twitter account, and J-Lab’s Twitter account.
Where have the good men gone? This article in The Wall Street Journal argues that a new demographic of men has arisen — a demographic stuck between boyhood and manhood as a result of rising advancement and power of women.
I’ll be speaking at ACP Hollywood in March
This year I’ll be speaking and co-hosting workshops for the Associated Collegiate Press National College Journalism Convention in Los Angeles March 3-6, at the Renaissance Hollywood hotel: “Workshop: Hollywood Experience” at 10 a.m. to Noon Thursday, March 3, in the Whitley … Continue reading
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Help a bunch of bright-eyed high school journalists get to NYC
UPDATE: You can now donate to The Grizzly Gazette at gazettetonyc.info. I grew up in a modest town. Porterville, California. Population roughly 40,000. Mostly farmers. It’s a place that smells of cow manure. It’s the “armpit” of California, being the … Continue reading
Posted in people, two cents | Tagged evan hackett, fundraising, granite hills high school, grizzly gazette, pleas for money | 5 Comments
So, what is “news,” anyway?
In writing about this month’s Carnival of Journalism topic (increasing sources of news), I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what exactly “news” is and what a “source of news” therefore is. I still don’t have a solid answer. … Continue reading
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On the oversaturation of news sources
In any natural marketplace, competition is a healthy component. In business, competition forces companies to rethink their strategies, be better at what they do. In education, competition is what makes high school students work harder to do better to get … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival of Journalism | Tagged aol patch, carnival of journalism, ces, competition, harvard business review, oversaturation, sources of news | 7 Comments
CSPA Online Crown Awards 2011 Finalists. Congratulations to the Grizzly Gazette — the online-only high school newspaper at Granite Hills High School — for placing as a crown finalist in the 2011 Columbia Scholastic Press Association Online Crowd Awards. I’m proud to see my Title 1 high school listed amongst affluent high schools like Palo Alto High School and Berkeley High School. Keep rockin’, my small-town pride and joy. Thank you for carrying on the legacy years after I’m gone.
Confessions of an Apple Store Employee. “One Apple Store employee decided to throw protocol to the curb and tell us what it’s really like working at the vaunted retail outlets.” Interesting commentary on homeless people doing webcasts, drug dealers using fake SSNs. Taking days off to watch Steve Jobs’ keynotes.
Four ways to visualize your personal data. My latest post at 10,000 Words. Ways to visualize your Gmail inbox, location checkins, Twitter followers, finances and search history.
Daniel Victor’s true motivation behind a month-long series about dating. It really was about infusing reader contributions into the reporting process and breaking down the wall between pre-publication and post-publication.
Spot.us 3.0: Redesign is out in the wild
Last month I promised that the Spot.us redesign would rock your world. Feeling rocked yet? We soft launched the new design and have been QA testing this week. Now we’re proud to announce it to the world. As always, the … Continue reading
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If Zucks hadn’t created it, someone of my generation would have made Facebook
I’m convinced that the web wants to be a social space. If Mark Zuckerburg hadn’t invented Facebook or Tom Whats-his-name hadn’t invented Myspace, someone would have created them anyway and a very similar product would have resulted because that is … Continue reading
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Spot.us redesign 2011
This project is still a work in progress. I am working with David Cohn and Erik Sundelof to launch a brand new design for the community-funded journalism site, Spot.us. Stay tuned to hear more about a launch date in early … Continue reading
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