Time out Tuesday: ReTweet Revolution
We all know the role Twitter played in the aftermath of Iran’s elections. How tweets got the play-by-play news from the streets to the world. How it was used by some to organize protesters. How the White House asked Twitter to keep the servers online and push off scheduled system updates. And how it appears...
deer in the city
The buck lifted his head and stared at me as I tried to move closer. I was driving around Fair Oaks Ranch looking for a picture to go with a story on stage 3 water restrictions but wasn’t having any luck. Some days are like that. It also didn’t help that my eight hour shift...
Time out Tuesday: Ira Glass on Storytelling
I don’t even think I have validate this entry to time out, it’s F’n Ira Glass, women like his style and men have been ripping off his hipster style for years. The host of PBS radios “This American Life” has carved out a piece of the radio landscape and delivers each week the find of...
Time out Tuesday: Dr. Horrible
Ok ok, so two weeks ago I did kind of cop out by posting Spaced, but you know you enjoyed it. 😉 It’s 42 min, but if you haven’t seen it, you are so missing out on something awesome. The controversial ending alone is genius. Created during the writer’s strike in 2008, it was basically...
Tea for 61
Tea parties are pretty strange. I mean, if you think about it, they’re pretty strange. Men in sharp black suits and polished shoes not going to the office. Women in flower-adorned hats and their Sunday best not going to church, well Sunday church. Everyone stopping in the middle of the day and dropping all their...
Time out Tuesday: Letters to the President
“Every day, President Obama reads ten letters from the public in order to stay in tune with America’s issues and concerns. “Letters to the President” is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the process of how those ten letters make it to the President’s desk from among the tens of thousands of letters, faxes, and e-mails...
Blue Therapy
I was in knots as I walked out of the office. So much on my mind. So much to process. I looked up and saw a shade of blue sky that gave me an excuse. So for the next twenty minutes I walked around and thought only about blue. It was calming, for the time...
Time out Tuesday: Spaced
What? You say I’m phoning it this week? Look, Spaced is about showing respect for your audience to get it without spelling it out, telling an honest story, making it entertaining and most of all, understanding your consumer and how to reach them. Sounds a lot like journalism no? Aren’t we all trying to figure...
body/percussion
The Third Coast Rhythm Project visits the youth program at San Juan Community Center to teach kids to make music using their bodies as instruments.
The promising, the inspirational and the dumb@$$
The promising NPR.com is undergoing a redesign. A very clean design with simple navigation, lots of white space and tons of information without the need to scroll or click through. Plus customization like picking your local station helps to really create a “home” for the user. Plus the demo video itself is very well put...
To the moon: The flagmaker
Some days you just have to stand back and realize it. There’s no money in it, all your friends are looking for jobs, the doomsayers are becoming prophets, it’s long hours with sometimes little thank you, and most days it seems like no one even sees your hard work unless Michael Jackson or Britney Spears...
Time out Tuesday: We choose the moon
This site just started popping up over the last couple of weeks. It wasn’t exactly clear what it was about at first, but it looked intriguing. We choose the moon was an interactive site that attempted to relive for another generation what the experience of the first moon landing was for our parents and grandparents....
