As I posted earlier today, I used CoverItLive to post a liveblog of the presidential debate. I had some problems getting the thing to post in WordPress and I found another key problem: preparation.
These blogs need a lot of prep: Photos, poll ideas, text links and invites. Invitations are possibly the greatest time consumer beforehand. [...]
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April 16, 2008
CoverItLive reactions
April 16, 2008
Trying CoverItLive - Presidential debate in Philadelphia
Trying out a new tool, Cover It Live. Let’s see how it works with the presidential debate:
<iframe src=”http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=17198ddadf&height=550&width=470″ scrolling=”no” height=”550px” width=”470px” frameBorder =”0″ ></iframe>
UPDATE: Apparently embedding the frame isn’t working with BonEcho or WordPress
Check out the liveblog here.
April 15, 2008
Using platforms for more than new tools
What platforms do you get your information from? Sounds like a simple question right? Then why did a guy talking about journalism trends stump an audience for a few minutes with it?
Randy Parker from the York Daily Record had a group of journalism students and professors staring at him throwing up traditional answers.
After a few [...]
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 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 7, 2008
Going the distance with travel stories
I’ve come into a bunch of travel pieces written for a Feature Writing class and since they fit my criteria for publication (decent writing and ripe for packaging) we’re going to probably run one per issue of both the print version of The Commuter as well as our Web publication.
Our first piece, a travel story [...]
