From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Lip shaped pita bread

September 28, 2008

Ok, so this isn’t my typical post, but something amazing happened tonight when I was eating mini pita for dinner.
A pita shaped like lips! It’s the craziest thing. Unfortunately it wasn’t a Jesus shaped pita, otherwise I’d be posting this to eBay instead of my blog. The picture follows.

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Hurricane Ike Media Review: KHOU.com

September 15, 2008

Among the Houston based local media scene, KHOU is a solid contender and very popular station. Like the other local network affiliates they had “wall to wall” coverage on-air and online. Their broadcast transmission was also being streamed live online.
I do want to preface each of these reviews with the web technology or content management [...]

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Hurricane Ike Media Review: Judging Criteria

September 15, 2008

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to be writing reviews of the local and national media’s response to Hurricane Ike this past weekend.
What I’ll focus on:

Update frequency
Web site usability
User generated content solicitation and usage
Multi-media coverage
Distribution of content outside the “walled garden”
Innovation, or lack thereof in coverage

Where I’m coming from:

I have family who lives in a [...]

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The Week Ahead: Reviews of the Media Response to Hurricane Ike

September 14, 2008

All next week I’ll be walking you through the online and on-air media response of both the national and Houston based media. As opposed to most national disasters I actually have a personal connection to this one with my family living in Missouri City, Texas, a Houston suburb. I currently live and work in the [...]

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Houston Chronicle Excels in Hurricane Ike Coverage

September 13, 2008

As someone who not only is interested in news and journalism, but who also works in social media for a living I constantly see television stations and newspapers who either don’t take advantage of advances in technology or completely ignore the true value in the power of people.
This morning as I think about my family [...]

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Time For A Comeback (I’m renewed, refreshed, and ready to blog)

September 1, 2008

It’s been way too long since I last posted to my blog here. For that, I apollogize. It seems (and I plan to analyze this a little more later this week) that the more I Twitter and micro-blog, the more my full blog suffers. I’ve effectually decided to put my site and blog on hold, [...]

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