Monthly Archives: April 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.
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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 [...]
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Push the basics at Speak Up, Write Out

So this weekend the crew and I went to Gettysburg College to take part in a journalism conference type event. Overall I’d call it a success, despite getting lost (a few times) and what looked like the small amount of attending students. There were panel discussions, a nice long networking lunch and a keynote address. [...]
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The Commuter branches into video

Today I received a message via Facebook telling me that a 9 minute interview I did with three Ron Paul supporters was now on YouTube: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbFBapBwaSI&hl=en] This would be the first time I’ve ever been on video doing any kind of interview or discussion and overall I’d be interested to see if there’s anything that [...]
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Getting back to blogging

I’m going to come out and say it: I’ve been slacking off at this blog. Now I know there aren’t many readers and the impact of my absence probably didn’t make anyone question anything but I have to remember that I didn’t start this blog to be popular — it’s for me to chronicle my [...]
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