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Serious motivational music!

April 16, 2008 – 7:48 am

In need of some extra ooomph to get you going? This should do the trick: The Helian’ Man, sung by Matt McGinn, a ballad about Scottish raids about a thousand years ago that led Roman emperor Hadrian to build a 73-mile wall across Britain.

I heard this song on the radio about 15 years ago, [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in emotions, music, psychology | Comments (3)

Will someone please think of the grad students?

January 4, 2008 – 12:10 pm

I’m in the midst of an intriguing IM chat with Lisa Williams (of Placeblogger and H2otown). I shared a stray thought with her:
Me: Do you think someday someone will post “the collected IM chat transcripts of so-and-so” like they publish the letters of Oscar Wilde?
Lisa: I’m sure of it! Won’t someone please think of [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Microblogging, blogs, conversational media, random thought | Comments (1)

CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?

October 25, 2007 – 11:00 am

Alex Miroshnichenko

Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.

For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in General, citizen journalism, collaboration, contributed content, conversational media, innovation, journalism, media evolution, news, services, tools | Comments (0)