River Walk Tour Webcast
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Fair pay and fair play
Today is fair pay day. Here’s my part: I got into the journalism racket back in 1975, when the newbies were relegated to the manual typewriters and when it was considered too demeaning for a male reporter to be assigned to the “Womens” section of the newspaper. Although I’d completed one meager semester of journalism…
The Twitters tell the story
I was asked to be the wrap-up Rapporteur for the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin last week. The conference had the Twitter hashtag #isoj, and, partly because it is Webcast live, people were watching and Twittering about it in real time on at least four continents. (Here…
Fiesta fireworks
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Newspapers don’t own journalism
I always thought it was odd to hear flat out declarations that there can be no life on other planets in the absence of water. How egocentric! So you’re saying that life can only exist if it’s precisely like us? Really? That’s the feeling I’m getting right now in the woe-is-us, hand-wringing sob-fest about whether…
Train in Brackenridge Park
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Pecan Season in San Antonio
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Students, Denver and the Fifth Estate
I’m in Denver today with a group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas students who are kind enough to call me their teacher. Fellow-learner is more like it. Once again, we’re experimenting with the future of journalism — using the latest tools in different ways to help people get news and better connect with information,…
The offline mind
incurious \(ˌ)in-ˈkyu̇r-ē-əs\ lacking a normal or usual curiosity : uninterested <a blank incurious stare> synonyms: see indifferent – Merriam-Webster I am not at all relieved that John McCain, an acknowledged computer illiterate, is now “learning to get online,” without help. Here’s what he told the New York Times: Q: But do you go on line…
Gazpacho, cool soup for a hot day
We’d been married less than 10 years when we bought this old house on Mahncke Park, but our cookbook collection was already big enough to demand its own built-in bookcase in the kitchen. Each of the books has a story, which kind of explains why this librarian’s daughter thought it made sense to house Like…