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NewsTools 2008: I have always depended on the kindness of friends

May 1, 2008 – 2:02 pm

I’m not exactly Blanche DuBois, but…

I’m at the NewsTools2008 unconference at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, CA — where 150 news/media people, academics, and technologists are gathered to figure out better tools to support journalism that matters. (Follow my live coverage on my amylive Twitter account.)
…And I have apparently come down with a cold. It [...]

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The Cup: The Cool Boulder Geek Hangout

April 17, 2008 – 5:08 pm

I spent most of today working and socializing at The Cup in downtown Boulder. It’s known locally as the cool hangout place for local geeks. It also specializes in fair trade coffee (which is cool, even though I don’t drink coffee, I’m a tea fan).
Today several of my friends stopped by, so I grabbed video [...]

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Good People Day: The BlogHer Crowd

April 3, 2008 – 2:33 pm

Generally I try not to get caught up in memes, where a bunch of people try to do similar posts on the same day. (I’m not entirely opposed to memes, it just doesn’t suit the way I personally write or work.)
But yesterday I saw a particularly compelling video post by Wine 2.0 founder Gary Vaynerchuk: [...]

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I think this blog hack is under control (knock wood)

November 13, 2007 – 3:39 pm

Blmurch, via Flickr (CC license)

Yep, spammers are asses. And evil, in a mostly banal sense. Grumble….

Over the last few days, and especially this morning, I’ve been wrangling with fixing a hack done to this blog by a spammer. It’s been pretty stressful, but Tom Vilot and other helpful geeks have been absolute angels in helping [...]

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Media Literacy Games

August 1, 2007 – 11:57 am

Recently Lisa Williams wrote about a media literacy for kids:
“One of the most basic aspects of media literacy for pre-reading kids is the ability to distinguish an ad from other content they see on television. This tip has worked for me with my kids, three and five: when there’s an advertisement on the screen, yell [...]

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Jack Vinson on the “me collector”

July 31, 2007 – 11:14 am

Jack Vinson

Knowledge management guru Jack Vinson had a lot of advice for scattered content creators like me.

In response to my post yesterday, I want one place for all my content, knowledge management guru and very cool guy Jack Vinson (who I finally got to meet at BlogHer) posted an elaborate list of almost-options that [...]

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Pithy video advice on citizen journalism

July 31, 2007 – 7:24 am

At BlogHer this past weekend, I stayed out way too late on Friday night with my friends and citizen journalism colleagues Lisa Williams, Tish Grier, and Beth Kanter.
Back in the hotel room after a fair amount of wine and Italian food, Beth shot this incriminating video and asked us for advice on citizen journalism. The [...]

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