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Following Chinese Earthquake via Social Media

May 12, 2008 – 12:13 pm

I just posted this item to Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits by our correspondent in Shanghai, Fons Tuinstra (who blogs at China Herald) about the surprisingly important role Twitter is playing in the unfolding coverage of today’s major quake in southern China. Check out Fons’ post
Also read what UK Tidbits correspondent Paul Bradshaw has to say about [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in journalism, social media, video | Comments (0)

Dale Willman on radio in Indonesia

May 10, 2008 – 10:23 am

Dale Willman

Borobudur, a Buddhist temple on the island of Java.

For a change of pace, here’s an audio podcast. My good friend and environmental journalism colleague Dale Willman just got back from a three-week trip to Indonesia where he was training radio journalists there how to do an environmental radio show — and just how to [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Audio Show, culture, education, environment, experience, interviews, media evolution, mobile, podcasts | Comments (0)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

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Bhutto Assassination News via Blogs, Twitter

December 27, 2007 – 10:04 am

The Teeth announcement on Twitter of Bhutto’s assassination, viewed via Snitter.

This morning as I was making tea, I learned via NPR that Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Google News already offers a slew of mainstream news coverage of the assassination — based almost [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Microblogging, blogs, citizen journalism, government, journalism | Comments (1)

Barcelona is great, my Macbook is not

November 23, 2007 – 2:58 am

Just a quick update — I’m greatly enjoying my brief vacation in Barcelona. Last night a friend and I enjoyed tapas, tempranillo, and an AWESOME flamenco fusion trio in the courtyard of a Catalonian cafe. Here are some photos I took in Barcelona and at the seaside town of Vilanova i la Geltru.
However, my Macbook [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Mac, culture, problems | Comments (6)

I’m Twittering the Spanish Digital Journalism Seminar

November 20, 2007 – 4:07 am

Following on Steve Outing’s Tidbits post about using Twitter to cover breaking news…
Right now I’m attending the second day of the Seminari Internacional de Periodisme Digital, held at the chic modern Neapolis center at Vilanova i la Geltru, on the Spanish coast of the Mediterranean. I’m posting highlights from my notes via Twitter. If [...]

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One Laptop Per Child: Why Media Folks Should Care

September 27, 2007 – 8:28 am

Laptop.org

Don’t know what to do with a computer that looks like this? Don’t worry — you’re not the target market.

Lately I’ve been learning more about, and getting quite intrigued by, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. Yesterday I listened to an IT Conversations podcast talk by Michael Evans, VP of corporate development for Redhat, [...]

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Lunar Eclipse, via Flickr

August 28, 2007 – 2:37 pm

Cheetah100, via Flickr (CC license)

Last night’s total lunar eclipse.

Last night, after a day of mostly overcast skies in Boulder, CO, the clouds finally dissolved around 3am leaving a clear view of the total lunar eclipse. I was out in my driveway with my husband, who’d set up his whompous Meade LX 90 12-inch telescope, and [...]

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