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Why Life Has Been Crazy: My Huge Job Announcement

May 23, 2008

Over the last few weeks I’ve been dropping hints on Twitter, but it’s about time I just came out with it. I’ve accepted a position at the Public Broadcasting Service. In case you’ve been wondering why the big move and road trip from Missouri to Washington DC was happening, that’s why.
I’m joining the ranks of [...]

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Twitter, A Journalist’s Best Friend

April 25, 2008

Here’s a little nugget and inspiration I’d love to get some feedback from the masses on:

I wasn’t actually able to take in any of this live last week, but the amazing power of Twitter can do a reporter’s work for them. Take a look at the first-hand accounts of people who felt the earthquake last [...]

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A Personal Update

April 19, 2008

Today’s post has two different themes, 1) a change in blog format and 2) my job search.
I wanted to start out by saying that I’ve changed the way things work on here a little. After getting several emails, I re-evaluated having my Twitter updates archive to my blog. I’ve decided that there isn’t very much [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-10

April 10, 2008

Looking over some NAB materials and hounding on my development team to get Contributr back online in time for the conference season #
Trying to figure out what the heck my Contributr developers have been doing for the last several weeks, not being micromanaged, nor working. #
Wow that last Tweet was a Twoosh! (The sentence was [...]

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When A Podcast Isn’t Just A Podcast

April 10, 2008

I had a great IM conversation last night with a podcast author regarding my post from a few days ago about the death of podcasting. He seemed to agree on many levels and was hoping for some advice because he’s feeling trapped in his current podcast network and not sure how to venture out on [...]

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A Contributr Update

April 8, 2008

The Contributr team has been taking a little break recently, and that’s not a good thing. We’re trying frantically to make up time but other commitments got in the way.
Colby Palmer has been working on a complete redesign of the web application and the AIR desktop application and is doing a great job. He’s a [...]

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Are Podcasts Dead?

April 7, 2008

In case you didn’t know, I’ll be in Las Vegas Sunday-Wednesday for the NAB conference (National Association of Broadcasters). The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism is sponsoring my trip so that I can present Contributr to the masses. (Let’s hope Contributr is ready, more on that tomorrow!)
As I was looking through [...]

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Convergence of the Future

March 19, 2008

News makers keep talking about backpack journalists and having reporters be good at everything. Now we all know that’s just not possible, but it hasn’t stopped the visionaries from proclaiming convergence journalism the future of news.

Convergence of the media is already happening of course, and convergence is the future. No longer is a television station [...]

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Journalists and Blogging

March 17, 2008

Journalists who learn to blog help their online sites grow beyond repuporsed print news | Howard Owens: “”

“Blogging is only as good as you make it”
This statement couldn’t me more true, today when I find a truly engaging and interesting news story you know what format it’s in? a BLOG. A blog with personal [...]

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links for 2008-03-16

March 16, 2008

15 Reasons Why Blogging Matters More Than Ever | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog and Podcast – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image

6bone Webserver

Comcast to beef up network with new 100Gbps optics

Threat on Juicy Campus gossip site lands student in jail

The Pirate Peacock? How NBC wants to both filter and use [...]

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