Today I’m posting my first “quote” blog. This little feature appeared because my journalism studies are low-key today. Anyway, on with the quote:
I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard
Entries from February 2008
February 26, 2008
Quote on writing
February 23, 2008
‘New’ Web class disappoints
This semester my college’s Writing for the Information Age class experienced what I can see as the most awful process of reshuffling and disorganization I’ve witnessed in any college course.
The semester approaches the halfway point and we’re still without a syllabus — and any lack of comprehension therein.
I have no idea what I’m supposed to [...]
February 19, 2008
The Commuter plans “Green Package”
This semester our Web journalism class is generating specific content. We’re trying to keep a separate presence online so The Commuter doesn’t just shovel print stories to the Web.
To reach these goals we’re going to address some points about the “green” trend and how it affects life on campus. Story ideas so far:
NCC switches to [...]
February 17, 2008
What do you want out of online news?
As my last posts state: The Commuter has its own Facebook page. Now I realize the uptime isn’t even a week on this thing, but I’ve tried promoting it within the journalism department and the college network. On top of that we’ll be running a house ad in the next print issue of the paper.
All [...]
February 14, 2008
New Nokia gear addresses N95 concerns
As any “mojo” at Reuters will tell you: the Nokia N95 kit lets one reporter do several things quickly, and well.
Video, audio, still photographs, writing, Web publishing … can this thing do anything else (like make phone calls)?
Gear geeks Technology enthusiasts like myself enjoy seeing products with good features — that way I don’t have [...]
February 14, 2008
Online journalism wins through short ‘chunky’ text
Today I’m going to illustrate a point made on Pat Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog. I’ve found several of these tips useful but as mentioned in his first post about brevity, shoveled content tends to fit better in columns on a page than in a frame on a Web site.
As anyone reading this blog knows I’m [...]
February 13, 2008
The Commuter moves into Facebook and publishes Web content
The Commuter recently added a Facebook page. We’ll be adding more admins and some standard content to the page. Hopefully the discussion board post I made on the Northampton network helps with traffic. We’ll also advertise in our next print issue and run a small brief on the site.
Speaking of the site, our Feb. issue [...]
February 12, 2008
WGA strike over, journalism took a hit
As the writers strike ends Jack Bauer fans can start rejoicing along with Academy Awards junkies (maybe we can actually have some real jokes at an awards show!).
Now that Americans can get back to seeing if Meredith and whats-his-name on Grey’s Anatomy get back together the media can start picking through the new WGA contract [...]
February 9, 2008
Testing out Google
Apparently Google Documents is becoming more impressive than it already is. Forms will add a new way for connectivity and reader responses.
This new feature reinforces my idea that Google will eventually take over the Internet. All they really need to do is set up an ISP and a Web browser. That might put a stop [...]
February 8, 2008
Tea bag leaves office steamed
Today in my Writing for the Information Age class (Web Journalism) we did another exercise where we take a story in print and re-write it for the Web. The following is compiled from some staff reports at The Express-Times.
A sugar-packet sized bag containing a brown substance brewed suspicion that lead to an office building [...]
