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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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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-31

March 31, 2008

I’m leaving lovely Houston this afternoon, back to the cloudy and rainy Missouri for me. #
I’m all packed, my flight leaves Houston at 1:40 this afternoon. #
At Houston Hobby airport in line to checkin. #
All checked in, securty just shakes their heads as my carryin goes through #
Flight goes through OK city, same plane, hopefully [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-22

March 22, 2008

Hanging out in Houston, it’s Sunny, in the mid 70s, nothing like back home in Columbia where its 40 and cloudy! #
Cruising around Houston in a mercedes convertable, this is the life! #

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-21

March 21, 2008

Work never ends, there’s always more to do, more to learn, more to create #
Good Morning World! Make it a great day. I’ve got some work and a meeting this morning, then it’s off to Houston #
Hitting the road. #
Already in Kansas city and waiting for my flight to Houston #
Free airport wifi is the [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-16

March 16, 2008

Dinner= creamy tomato soup and cornbread. yummy stuff to promote some more programming tonight! #
Good morning Twitterville! I’ve got 2500+ unread noticed in my feed reader, I think I might tackle some today. #
Time to write some blog posts, I ran out of pre-fab posts last week so time to refresh and finish old drafts [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-05

January 5, 2008

The snow truck is in the neighborhood, about Togo see it. #
Trucked-on snow is HILARIus in Houston! #

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-04

January 4, 2008

Watching the VT/KU Game. Let’s all hope KU gets STOMPED! #
The IA results are simply interesting #
Watching some morning news, got the fire on to keep warm down in Houston! #
Hanging at the First Colony Apple Store. #
Happy birthday to me from Apple- Airport extreme and a lacie travel drive #
Just back from walking the [...]

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