My latest vid for the em tee vees (MTV)...my hand at drawing the story of the Holcomb coal plant debate.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Noooo! Multimedia Shooter dies again
Looks like this time it's for good. What a terrible loss for the blogosphere. What a great and helpful site.
Reuters' Iraq package is awesome
If you haven't seen Reuters' multimedia package on the 5-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, do yourself a service a click HERE. It's pretty amazing.
Cubs Rule. Sox Drool. New RedEye blog proves it.
My friend, former co-worker, and current Chicago Tribune sports scribe Matt Lynch is setting the story straight in Chicago with his new blog, 
Oddballs. Hosted by RedEye, Matt will seek to let everyone know that the Cubs rool and the Sox drooool. His friend Ryan will ill-advisedly try to do the same for the Sox.
Check it out!
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/oddballs/
Oddballs. Hosted by RedEye, Matt will seek to let everyone know that the Cubs rool and the Sox drooool. His friend Ryan will ill-advisedly try to do the same for the Sox.Check it out!
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/oddballs/
CitJ in Kansas City: A dream explained
Geoff Dougherty, editor the Chi-Town Daily News, wrote a column at Poynter discussing his management of several dozen citizen journalists in Chicago. His use of software to organize his team is pretty interesting, I think.
I'm beginning to plan my thesis project to (finally) graduate from KU. I'm rolling around two ideas in my head: One is a multimedia project about homelessness in Lawrence or a citizen journalism venture in Kansas City. There are a lot of blogs that muse on life and politics in KC, but I think there's a way to bring them all together.
My thoughts are this: Using a model of the Daily News and the Voice of San Diego, a citizen journalism venture would work best by combining user-generated content with the work of professional journalists. You create editorial standards and ensure your writers adhere to them. You use your in-house reporters to cover beats (Geoff had a good list on one of his blog posts, but I can't find it), some breaking news and some features, while relying on citizen journalists -- including high school journalists -- to beef up your coverage.
Then use your site as an aggregator local blogs (the Daily News does this, but I think there are a lot of local bloggers that could be represented. Kansas City has a solid group of city bloggers who are smarter about a lot of things than a lot of people) and media, maybe even using AP stories. Invite local bloggers to participate in online chats or as guest columnists. Heck, see if they'll be regular contributors. Using Yahoo Pipes to automatically expand the scope of stories. Use a front page Twitter-like function so readers and reporters can give updates on stories or traffic jams or the Royals' World Series victory (or not).
It needs to feed the sense of community that lives online and not appear as a monolith, as so many news organizations do. It should encourage community leaders or government officials to participate in op/eds.
Advertising? Um, I don't know much about it. But there's got to be some solution. One could be similar to the Journal-World's Marketplace, which allows businesses to upload info about their business, while paying for some premium features, like photos. The World Company is branching out of Larry to sell the service nationally.
My vision for Kansas City site would be heavy on multimedia: Maps, Google StreetView, lots of video for feature stories, and more.
Of course, I could be totally mistaken about all this. And I'm sure there's a whole helluva a lot more I haven't even thought of. I am not, how you say, a thought leader. That's what you get for musing on late-night visions.
This just in: The Bean is sweet.
Reporting from outside Union Station...
Greetings from the LJ World's News Center
I'm beginning to plan my thesis project to (finally) graduate from KU. I'm rolling around two ideas in my head: One is a multimedia project about homelessness in Lawrence or a citizen journalism venture in Kansas City. There are a lot of blogs that muse on life and politics in KC, but I think there's a way to bring them all together.
My thoughts are this: Using a model of the Daily News and the Voice of San Diego, a citizen journalism venture would work best by combining user-generated content with the work of professional journalists. You create editorial standards and ensure your writers adhere to them. You use your in-house reporters to cover beats (Geoff had a good list on one of his blog posts, but I can't find it), some breaking news and some features, while relying on citizen journalists -- including high school journalists -- to beef up your coverage.
Then use your site as an aggregator local blogs (the Daily News does this, but I think there are a lot of local bloggers that could be represented. Kansas City has a solid group of city bloggers who are smarter about a lot of things than a lot of people) and media, maybe even using AP stories. Invite local bloggers to participate in online chats or as guest columnists. Heck, see if they'll be regular contributors. Using Yahoo Pipes to automatically expand the scope of stories. Use a front page Twitter-like function so readers and reporters can give updates on stories or traffic jams or the Royals' World Series victory (or not).
It needs to feed the sense of community that lives online and not appear as a monolith, as so many news organizations do. It should encourage community leaders or government officials to participate in op/eds.
Advertising? Um, I don't know much about it. But there's got to be some solution. One could be similar to the Journal-World's Marketplace, which allows businesses to upload info about their business, while paying for some premium features, like photos. The World Company is branching out of Larry to sell the service nationally.
My vision for Kansas City site would be heavy on multimedia: Maps, Google StreetView, lots of video for feature stories, and more.
Of course, I could be totally mistaken about all this. And I'm sure there's a whole helluva a lot more I haven't even thought of. I am not, how you say, a thought leader. That's what you get for musing on late-night visions.
This just in: The Bean is sweet.
Reporting from outside Union Station...
Greetings from the LJ World's News Center
New MTV Multimedia: Parliament's resident protestor
Since June 2001, Brian Haw has lived -- no, existed -- outside Parliament. He rails against the imperialism of the "United States of Assassins and Genocide Britain;" he mourns the children caught up in the war and wants a swift end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I caught up with him on a snowy day in London.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Me and the Washington Post
Chris Cillizza, who writes The Fix blog for the Washington Post, was looking for the country's top political blogs, state-by-state. And who did he pick for Kansas? Yep, me.
It's pretty exciting, but I'm certain there was a lack of representation from the Sunflower State. Nonetheless, I've got some work to do to live up to my new-found title as one of the best political blogs in the state. I can't say that I believe that yet; there are some really good ones out there, like Blue Tide Rising, Kansas Voice and Evolving in Kansas. I've had a tough time finding more conservative blogs in the state. Weird, I think, since the only blue spot is here in Lawrence. Nonetheless, I strive to do better, and I think I'll continue to improve my reportage and blogging, especially when I'm finished with the semester.
A tip of the cap the Brian Rich, our Street Teamer from Idaho.
It's pretty exciting, but I'm certain there was a lack of representation from the Sunflower State. Nonetheless, I've got some work to do to live up to my new-found title as one of the best political blogs in the state. I can't say that I believe that yet; there are some really good ones out there, like Blue Tide Rising, Kansas Voice and Evolving in Kansas. I've had a tough time finding more conservative blogs in the state. Weird, I think, since the only blue spot is here in Lawrence. Nonetheless, I strive to do better, and I think I'll continue to improve my reportage and blogging, especially when I'm finished with the semester.
A tip of the cap the Brian Rich, our Street Teamer from Idaho.
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