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Beating the bum killed all my comments

By Jared | Published: August 17, 2008
Last week I discovered the known jerk/spammer/curmudgeon wenalway hit my blog. After I got home I quickly blocked his IP and removed all the comments he left when I suddenly realized I’d made a huge mistake. I removed all my comments except two. Sorry. It wasn’t intentional or anything, just an honest mistake I made [...]
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Young journalist blog ring

By Jared | Published: August 2, 2008
A few weeks ago Dave Lee posted an idea he was kicking around for a blog ring of young journalists. I read through some of the comments and then decided to post my own where I mentioned my idea for an open group of young journalists. Turns out Dave is launching the blog ring soon [...]
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Old media attitudes can’t translate online

By Jared | Published: April 30, 2008
Today my web journalism class was “treated” with a guest speaker — Morning Call columnist Bill White. White’s been a columnist for a long time, and it shows. While he writes both columns and blogs for the paper, there’s a definite preference for the printed product. He talks about regretting the personal elements in the [...]
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