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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Wag of the Digital Finger
Another set of gaffes in an article in today’s online version of the paper (and in the print version too).
AP Style note
It’s awesome that we’re remembering to include links at the bottom of some stories now, but let’s remember something important: according to AP, “Web” is capitalized. From one of the stories on our site this morning: From the AP Stylebook: Web Short form of World Wide Web, it is a service, or set of standards, [...]
Our own version of FAIL blog
In addition to the obvious encoding problem (which is caused by smart or curly quotes being pasted into a form in the admin area of our site) (and by the way, there shouldn’t be an apostrophe in that word anyhow), there’s a bit of a logical problem inherent in the answers here. If you don’t [...]
Using music in multimedia pieces
Eric Maierson at MediaStorm offers some fantastic tips for using music in multimedia stories — such as video and audio. The gist is this: Make sure you the music you choose is good. Otherwise, don’t use it. Then, learn to cut and shape the music to fit with your piece so that it becomes more [...]
Be careful with the upload files
When I opened up the news index page this morning, I found this story listed in our sidebar: Obviously, some editor’s notes were left at the top of a file that was put onto the server this morning. Thank heavens it was on a high numbered story and didn’t appear on our homepage. Perhaps more [...]
Be OK with losing a little control
Well worth the four and a half minutes.
Blox update
We’re looking at a preliminary version of the new Blox site now and are in the process of sending our feedback to TownNews so that they can iron out some of the kinks. After that will be a period of fine-tuning before we go live some time at the end of January. It’s unclear so [...]
Need a job?
If you need a journalism job in Montana, you might want to rush your application over to the Havre Daily News. The newspaper is looking for a new publisher, the Associated Press reports. Val Murri, the paper’s publisher for 17 years, will retire at the end of the year. The paper’s management is “wrapping up” [...]
Weather blogger
KBZK’s chief meteorologist Mike Heard has started a blog, where he writes about — surprise — the weather. I point this out for a few reasons. First of all, Heard is no spring chicken. Blogging and social media weren’t things he learned about in college. He’s found the time, somehow, in his day to learn [...]
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