Bob Taylor at UT

Bob Taylor, one of the original innovators of the Internet, spoke at The University of Texas LBJ Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2009. He was honored by the UT Graduate College with the Graduate Student Outstanding Alumnus award, as Taylor received a master’s degree in psychology from UT. In 1968, Taylor, along with JCR Licklider, wrote […]

Making It Cool to be Positive

Journalists are skeptical by trade. It’s in their nature to question the motives of sources or to check and recheck facts. They are taught to be objective, keep their feelings out of their stories, and sometimes, perhaps in an attempt to mask their feelings, they lean toward the negative. Even the slightest detectable enthusiasm for […]

Yes, I do write blog posts…

Just not always on this blog. I have a few new ones on other blogs that I’d love for you to check out: One is on the AEJMC Hot Topics blog. http://bit.ly/UOk9c It has my observations about some of the critiques of the AEJMC conference and reviews of several books that have influenced my thinking […]

SXSW Panel Picker is live!

It’s that exciting time of year when you get the chance to vote on all the great ideas that will be part of the SXSW conference in March. Visit the Panel Picker site, sign in (very simple, just need email and password) and vote via the thumbs (up or down).  You can leave comments, ask […]

UT ASNE High School Journalism Workshop on Online Media

I’ll be talking to the UT ASNE High School Journalism Advisers on Monday about incorporating multimedia in their programs. Here are some examples I will show. Marathon Stories A People Torn, Minneapolis Star Tribune Ivory Wars, National Geographic – watch video on left from around 5:14 through the segment with the animated graphic; sometimes a […]

Visiting The New York Times

I was very fortunate to be able to spend a week working with the Interactive News Technology Team at The New York Times June 22-26. I had met Aron Pilhofer, the editor of the group, at a couple of events in 2008, and he kindly visited our school in February for a research symposium. I […]