For the second week in a row, i am on the road. This time to Chicago and the Illinois College Press Association convention. Along with the conference, our department is having an alumni gathering. Hope to get some photos along the way.
RSS depletion
Today I marked every last item in my Google Reader account as read. Well over 500 of them I hadn’t read at all. I also unsubscribed to several blog feeds that I wasn’t reading anymore anyway. I’m sure the queue will fill up again by Monday, but it felt good for a while to flush…
One a day update
Well, that didn’t work so well. Today is Internet protest SOPA/PIPA day. You can read about the blackouts happening around the Internet in a variety of places I’ve linked to at the bottom of this post. Related articles SOPA blackout shows little hope of peace with Hollywood (latimesblogs.latimes.com) Internet Blackout of the Day (thedailywh.at)…
One a day – project 365
I’ve been remiss in blogging here of late, and I’m hoping for a bit of a kick in the pants to get things moving again, so I’m going to try this “Project 365″ thing suggested by the bloggers at WordPress.com (see here and here for an explanation). Will it work? Well, I’m already 11 days…
Following a tweet to its source: there’s got to be a better way
As Twitter has grown as a platform for passing along bits of news, I’ve noticed trends in the way organizations handle information. Here’s one thing I find annoying: the attribution of original sources. Here’s just one example: I saw this tweet from @mediaite The link leads to this story by James Crugnale. At the bottom…
A Halloween carnival of sorts
photo by Flickr user Zoriah. Use permitted under Creative Commons license. Click to see more images from this photographer. This month’s Carnival of Journalism takes us on a tour of a truly frightful house of promise and peril: the world of new gadgets and software tools. To refresh your memory, the prompt for this month…
Dvorak: Not just for music, but typing too
The past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to learn a new way of typing using the Dvorak keyboarding method. The Dvorak keyboard was developed in the middle of the 20th century to replace the QWERTY keyboard, which was originally designed in the late 19th century to slow down typists. It is very easy to…
OccupyEIU Video
I shot and edited this video today about the OccupyEIU protest (Facebook page) that started yesterday afternoon. While I was interviewing one of the participants, the photographer for the local newspaper came up and started taking photos, got my name, etc. So maybe I’ll be in the paper tomorrow. The video took about three hours…
Occupy movement comes to EIU
Brendan Hughes, communication studies graduate student, stands outside the Doudna Fine Arts Center Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, participating in OccupyEIU. Hughes said the protest began Monday afternoon, with eight participants. Four participants spent the night on the North Quad. Campus police told the protesters they could stay on campus as long as they did not…
