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Posts from September 2008

Test on uploading Soundslides

Today I decided to work with Soundslides. The audio is not there yet, mostly because I haven’t gotten it yet. Basically I’m taking baby steps since I’m learning on my own.
While I’m not working with a class on Soundslides, I do have some resources, most notably a series of posts by journalism Professor Mindy McAdams. [...]


CoPress: Changing college journalism

What is CoPress? It’s a network of journalists and students working at college publications trying to solve some of the technical problems with publishing online. What does that mean? We’re trying to fix the “CMS problem.”
The CMS Problem
Technical problems keep student publications from having the freedom to innovate because they usually end up with a [...]


Philadelphia Weekly article covers the “death” of journalism

As a student at Temple University I’m enjoying an abundance of daily and weekly publications, in fact there’s too many to read them all. The cover story for this week’s issue made me stop and browse through the little tabloid (and make me slightly late for my Design for Journalists class).
“Journalism is Dead? Then why [...]