Monthly Archives: February 2010

Where is Landon’s Lookout located, again?

Terrible.
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Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore

I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t supposed to respond to public comments about and critiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbitrary rules that somebody thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
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A strategic retreat

Posted via email from Becker’s Online Journal
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Content Creation: Sharing, remixing, blogging, and more | Pew Internet & American Life Project

via pewinternet.org A new Pew study shows that young people use the heck out of the Internet; they just don’t seem to be using it to blog. They also use the heck out of social networking sites, just not Twitter. Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
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Good social networking and Twitter tips from a Columbia J-School professor

If you’re still waffling about whether to use Twitter for personal or professional reasons, check out this post from Sree Sreenivasan, a journalism professor and the dean of student affairs at the Columbia Journalism School. It includes links to all manner of Twitter introductions, tutorials and other resources. Some of his links can help you [...]
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Gremlins!

More encoding “gremlins” snuck into the poll this week. Please, please, turn off “smart quotes” on your machine if you must continue using Microsoft Word to compose. Better yet, use a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows) or TextWrangler (on Mac) to write everything that goes onto the Web. This just looks bad.
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A walk in snowshoes

via blip.tv Our latest Chronicle video, shot by Michael Gibney, edited by me. Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
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