That’s one of my basic rules of journalism, and never has it been so delightfully true as today, when we can not only tell you what someone said, but let you hear how they said it — in their own voice. One of my students got a very rude awakening last semester thanks to an…
Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time. — Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author (thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)…
We managed to leave Buc-ees without this gem — a beaver neck rest complete with smiling Buc-ee face, paws and a flat tail. The store on I-10 has added a lot of beaverphernalia, including boxers, but no briefs. Mobile post sent by charlotteanne using Utterz. Replies.
Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content? People will buy it. Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff. The numbers are…
I don’t care if it has already gotten 5 million YouTube pageviews and was made in 1998. This version of the Twelve Days of Christmas by Straight No Chaser at Indiana University is worth another click or three: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8&rel=1&border=1]
hand to hand combat in the baking aisle Mobile post sent by charlotteanne using Utterz. Replies. mp3
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like…
It’s 38 degrees and socked in fog on Interstate 10 about 175 miles east of El Paso. The McDonald Observatory can’t see a thing. Funny the things Ithaca and Big Bend country have in common today: Cold pea soup. True story. Mobile post sent by charlotteanne using Utterz. Replies.
What’s Happening Cover Originally uploaded by Something To See Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons. Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else. That’s the case with…
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