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06.20.09

Back from the dead blogs | (2)
I think I'm going to start posting here again. Though less journalism-type things and more me. I need a new project.
04.17.08

‘Post’ Staffer Fired After profane-laden postings blogs, journalism, media | (0)
In a story pseudo-related to what I was talking about earlier, a staffer from the Washington Post was fired after some profanity-laced statements he made on sports blog. The problem, however, wasn't so much what the staffer, identified as Michael Tunison, said, but that he associated himself with the 'Post' when he did it. Michael Tunison, who blogged under the name "Christmas Ape" at the "Kissing Suzy Kolber" site, wrote on Wednesday that he had been fired for "bringing discredit to the paper." Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. confirmed that Tunison no longer worked at the paper and had left his job ...
04.10.08

Why every journalism student should have a blog blogs, journalism | (0)
OK, I've been in this blogging game for a while, since 2003 (which is a while in Internet time). Even before I started to pursue a journalism degree I saw that this stuff was going to be big (though not this big). I even regret having taken so long to get more professional with my blogging. Once I started to pursue journalism scholastically and professionally, I noticed a scary trend amongst many of my colleagues. The thing is, despite the prevalence of the Internet, despite the fact that they check their Facebook account religiously and despite the fact that it ...
04.07.08

Blog posts all present and accounted for blogs, personal | (0)
OK, so it didn't take me as long as I thought it would. Still, it was a bit of a pain. After exporting/importing all of my old Livejournal entries, as well as entries from an interim Blogger blog, spanning a period from March 2003 to today, my post total comes to 3,495 (...96 if you count this one). That's almost 3,500 posts since March 2003. That's an average of 1.917 posts per day, though in the beginning I was hardly posting at all. There were some Livejournal months where I was posting 100 times in a month. That's ridiculous, where did I ...