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Re: Reading and writing

newscoma — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:26:21 -0000

A couple of people recommended SharpReader to me for my feeds.
I sorta like it.

Re: A little too much research

newscoma — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:32:41 -0000

I read your column, John and you were right on. Our computers are also from 1999 and every word you wrote is true. For a laugh, our High School Cheerleaders just won the National Championship and three different people brought me CD's of the competition. Each CD had more than 600 photos on each one.
Talk about wanting to pull my hair out.
I didn't feel that your column was in the least bit whiny. It seemed practical and were very good words of advice.
As for Joan Stewart's post, I think we are all experiencing the transition of the transparency of blogging. Recently I met a politician who just won a seat to Congress. When I introduced myself, he said (and it was so weird) "No your not Tracy Sharp, your newscoma" while he grinned. I never brought up the blog.
It happened again a couple of weeks ago at the Legislative Reception in Nashville. Once again, the blog wasn't brought up by me.
I found it to be very odd.
I have had a couple occasions when people would come into my office and bring up the blog and I found myself automatically saying that the blog and my job at the newspaper are two different things.
But, the two worlds of journalism and blogging are colliding, don't you think?
I think where Stewart (and many people in mainstream environments outside of the blogosphere) don't always get is that it's not about publicity for publicity's sake. It's an extension of the creative medium we are in.
At the newspaper (and do you go through this) we have a rigid set of rules we must abide by. Worn out copies of our AP Stylebooks, scheduling reporters for news stories, dealing with publishers, handling complaints and dealing with the promotion of the newspaper as a whole.
The blogging allows us to step out of that box and delve into a new medium (or at least I'm speaking for myself).
I write about rural media that needs to be respected and appreciated but I do try to seperate them as I believe you do. We blog just because we dig it :)
And I think if someone called me wanting a job or googling my name to see what I put on-line would make me take pause.
Don't regret writing the column at all. It was a good column and this is actually a very good dialogue about the subject of people who do work in the mainstream are experiencing.
To blog or not to blog.
I say blog.
Sending fond wishes from the west side of the state.

Re: A little too much research

newscoma — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:33:02 -0000

Darn, didn't mean to hijack here.
Oops.

Re: Â¿Habla usted espaÃ±ol?

newscoma — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:57:30 -0000

Good for you.
I think this is wonderful.

Re: Apologies to Matt Damon

newscoma — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:56:28 -0000

That's really neat.

Re: Space Monster: Destroy Nashville

newscoma — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:29:19 -0000

It looks like it was done several years ago.
I just youtubed Nashville.
Weird stuff, isn't it?

Re: A novel approach

newscoma — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:00:00 -0000

I won't harrass you either but I think you should write about this. I think we get so confined doing our "jobs" that the creative side, for me at least, gets stifled a bit.
The blog has helped.
Want to hear a funny story? About five years ago, I made a bet that I could write a gothic horror romance vampire book after I saw several of this genre of books in Wal-Mart.
The bet was taken, and I did it, but man is it a stinker. I'm so embarrassed I won't show it to anyone but, boy, was it ever fun.
So I won the bet.
The moral of this sad story of mine, just write. Write like crazy and do it for yourself.