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Category Archives: Social Media
What do you want from me?
13 CommentsThe question came over as casually as any other, but it was a loaded one. “Why are you being nice to me?” she asked. “I’m nice to everyone,” I replied. It was the truth. I am. But her real question … Continue reading
Three things I learned at #140conf NYC
2 CommentsTo say that I learned three new things at the #140conf (June 15-16, 2011 in NYC) might be stretching things a bit. Perhaps I mean to say that three of my observations and assumptions about human behavior have been affirmed. … Continue reading
Confessions of the creative wannabe
2 CommentsI remember buying a tape recorder at Radio Shack when I was twelve or thirteen years old. It was one of those old ones that you loaded the cassette tape into the top and plugged in a wired microphone. I … Continue reading
The definitive difference between a real journalist and your sorry blogger butt
8 CommentsMaybe I’ve read one too many rants from know-it-all bloggers about how nobody really needs journalists and how journalism is a dead dying industry, but it really hit home today about the real difference between journalists and blogger know-it-alls. Above … Continue reading
My little dopamine spritz #twittermakesyoustupid
Leave a commentLast week, Bill Keller (@nytkeller) Executive Editor, The New York Times tweeted out: “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss.” And I wrote a blog post that was a half tongue-in-cheek job application and half… naw, it was a job application. I suspected his tweet … Continue reading
Is this thing on?
Leave a commentIn a word, yes. This thing is always on. The photo to the right was tweeted out by Jim Long who is a “veteran, Washington, DC based, network news cameraman currently working for one of the original three broadcasters” (@newmediajim) … Continue reading
God, please save the copy editors
2 CommentsDear God, if you are listening, it’s me, Rufus. I know you and I don’t talk much these days but you never say anything. Praying to you feels kinda like ranting into a twitter account. But we really could use … Continue reading