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Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media
When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened. People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 6
Tagged public relations, social media, twitter, Virginia Tech
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How Can You Write a Better Blog? Some great suggestions from Dan Frommer, author of the tech blog SplatF. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Accuracy, readable, skeptical, attributed, context, critical but fair, mechanics, original, new. Why Does Scooby-Doo Need People … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, blogging, ethics, legal issues, politics, questions
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Aliens on Ice!
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. Aliens on Ice! (Yeah, an amateur ice show based on the James Cameron film….) Thanks to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing for this.
Joe McGinniss responds to Janet Malcolm’s “The Journalist and the Murderer”
In 1989, journalist Janet Malcolm published two-part series of articles in The New Yorker under the headline “The Journalist and the Murderer.” (It has since then been published as a slim book.) In what would come to be one of … Continue reading
Solving the Black Friday Problem
The NYT’s Robert Frank has a great proposal for ending the madness that is Black Friday starting at midnight. Put in place a 6 percent national sales tax from 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, the day after … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 11
Tagged advertising, Because I can
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So, Are Black Friday Sales Actually a Viral Promotion for “Hunger Games”?
I’ve never been a big fan of the early morning Black Friday sales. One year my wife and I did get up very early in an attempt to buy a Nintendo Wii system. Not at a sale price, just to … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 11
Tagged advertising, Because I can
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Tweeting, Tweaking & TNT
Three bits of media news that are worth posting but don’t really go together. Associated Press to reporters: Don’t break news on Twitter; break it on the wire The Associated Press has reiterated it’s policy of never having reporters break … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged apple, basketball, social media
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Can a woman express opinions on the Internet without threats of sexual violence? Laurie Penny has her doubts. Should we be frightened that Harry Potter director David Yates is working on a big screen Dr. Who reboot? Ashamed to say … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 2, Chapter 8
Tagged ethics, media bias?, movies, opinion writing, questions
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Links on Using Narrative
In my feature writing class on Wednesday we spent a bit of time talking about using narrative techniques. Here are links to the articles I mentioned in that class. Good stuff for anyone interested in employing narrative technique in their … Continue reading
CTV Profiles Hark A Vagrant’s Kate Beaton
One of my favorite web comic’s is Kate Beaton’s Hark a Vagrant. While many of the strips deal with Canadian history, Nancy Drew, Victorian literature, and Mystery Solving Teens also make frequent appearances. Her collection of comics has hit the … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10
Tagged humor, web comics
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