Silfies Scope Geekish journalism and media ramblings from a student.

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. [...]


Beating the bum killed all my comments

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 in [...]


Tea bag leaves office steamed

Today in my Writing for the Information Age class (Web Journalism) we did another exercise where we take a story in print and re-write it for the Web. The following is compiled from some staff reports at The Express-Times.
A sugar-packet sized bag containing a brown substance brewed suspicion that lead to an office building evacuation [...]


Going the distance with travel stories

I’ve come into a bunch of travel pieces written for a Feature Writing class and since they fit my criteria for publication (decent writing and ripe for packaging) we’re going to probably run one per issue of both the print version of The Commuter as well as our Web publication.
Our first piece, a travel story [...]