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Entries from February 28th, 2011

Tech blog item #5: STAR workshop #1 Zotero 101

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #5: STAR workshop #1 Zotero 101 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Zotero is a free program provided by the Firefox database that captures, stores and organizes a variety of information resources.  It is a program that helps create your own reference library.  The STAR workshop that I attended helped enhance my skills in citing sources and also in finding a new way to create a bibliography. […]

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Briggs Chapter 7 Summary: Making Audio Journalism Visible

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 7 Summary: Making Audio Journalism Visible · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

            Audio  Journalism:                                                                                                                  “Painting sound pictures for listeners is a skill that takes practice.” Digital tools make audio easy for one person to master People often listen to audio journalism while commuting or spending time alone “An audio journalist can create a more intimate and personal relationship with the listener and take […]

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Tech blog item #4: Mark Potts’ “10 Tips For Suddenly Unemployed Journalists”

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #4: Mark Potts’ “10 Tips For Suddenly Unemployed Journalists” · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

When browsing through a blog, is there anything better than coming upon an article that gives you tips on finding another journalism job?  Well, that’s what you get when coming upon Mark Potts’ “Recovering Journalist” blog.  Since there are plenty of journalists who are out of work, Potts thought it was necessary to speak for […]

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Chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

“Reporters and journalism students must stop thinking about sound as an exclusively radio format and adopt it as a reporting tool that can be learned and used to effectively deliver information to readers or listeners.” -Jim Stovall Audio journalism, very simply and obviously put, is getting journalism out through the means of audio. Audio allows the listener to […]

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Tech blog item #2: Mark Potts’ “Recovering Journalist”

February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #2: Mark Potts’ “Recovering Journalist” · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Since this is the first of many blog items on Mark Potts’ “Recovering Journalist” blog, it’s necessary to go over the format that is distributed on his page.  First, there should also be a little background on who Mark Potts is and why I am blogging about his work. Mark Potts has been a journalist […]

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Chapter 7: Making audio journalism visible

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 7: Making audio journalism visible · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Briggs points out that with just a microphone, recorder and free software, you can create full-featured segments that sound like radio episodes and distribute them as podcasts to build a loyal audience.  This is what this chapter is all about: audio journalism. So why is audio journalism important? Capturing in words a story’s particular sights […]

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Great Search for Food (or Google) Lovers: Google with Recipe View

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Great Search for Food (or Google) Lovers: Google with Recipe View · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

It seems like Google is never out of ideas to make Web-searching more interesting and intriguing. The following video shows how to use Google’s recent addition, Recipe View to search recipes for any keyword you type. The search filter can narrow down the results with ingredients, cook time and even amount of calories per serving. […]

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Tech Blog #5

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #5 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

When is an online comment defamatory? If you post something libellous on Twitter about a local rival politician, and have only 30 followers, you can get sued. If you say something potentially libellous, using a pseudonym, on a UK newspaper site, with page views in the millions, you’re fine – that’s just “pub talk”. While […]

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Five ways you can use Twitter for bloggers

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Five ways you can use Twitter for bloggers · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Twitter. It’s been the buzz of the past few years. Now, that it has made it big, everyone is encouraged to jump on the bandwagon and get with it.  Here’s are the top five ways you can get in on the hype: 5. Interesting drives traffic With Twitter, if you are smart, witty or cool enough, you […]

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Is the world obsessed with Facebook?

February 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Facebook, social media

The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo.

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