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Re: Media Literacy Week, Tonight’s Blogging Panel to be Streamed Live

Dana — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:44:14 -0000

Yes, there is a difference between "your" and "you're." And that's "clichéd." Thanks for the grammar lesson. Have the balls to sign your name and quit trolling everyone's websites just to bash me. Anonymity breeds mediocrity.

Re: Media Literacy Week, Tonight’s Blogging Panel to be Streamed Live

Dana — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:39:45 -0000

Wow, it's the same troll who's been stalking me all over the internet comparing me to Peggy Hill and the Onion lady. Stalker! Now I feel totally legit. Awesome!

Thanks for the kind words.

Steve, thanks for the company. I hope that I did not scare you to death on the way home.

Re: Proud of my social network — The Broad Brush

Dana — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:16:41 -0000

Aw, thanks Todd.

Re: The Disappointing Lineup For The STL Interactive Festival

Dana — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:15:51 -0000

So when we put out the call for ideas you were silent and waited until afterwards to heap on the criticism? Doesn't sound very constructive to me. We also have a time limit and can't support 1,567 panels. Which is why it will be an annual thing.

Re: The Disappointing Lineup For The STL Interactive Festival

Dana — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:19:26 -0000

Why not email us next time instead of expecting people to find your post. I didn't see it until I was emailed a link. That would be most helpful.

Re: #TCOT Dome or a misinterpretation?

Dana — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:14:18 -0000

"What I am suggesting is that #TCOT should never be used to take a stand during internal party debates or to endorse any one specific policy, candidate or ideological position other than conservatism as a whole and the use of technology."

However, this could be just as dangerous as presuming to take a stand for an unclarified majority.

I think #tcot should always side with conservatism as it is defined, no matter the circumstance, as it is the entire point of the website's existence: to stand up for a message and amplify it via social media. Social media is simply a vehicle through which to distribute information quickly and to facilitate connectivity between constituent and official.

I say this as someone who has been blogging since 2001: to make a message's means of distribution the sole or most substantive litmus test for a candidate's worthiness is counter-productive to what we're trying to do.

That being said, I strongly dislike Mike Duncan, but not because he doesn't give 140 character updates daily.

Re: 2008/03/11/capitol-records-anti-internet/

Dana — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:58:14 -0000

True enough, but acts like Radiohead (and now NIN who are doing the same thing) are piggybacking on their previous success which they achieved through a major label.

That's not to say that major labels don't need to re-evaluate their business plans and stop disregarding social media - but we're not at the point where they're totally irrelevant.

Re: 4 Reasons Why You Should Not Freak Out About the Facebook Terms of Service Changes

Dana — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:38:20 -0000

Maybe so, except that it establishes a precedence of infringement, if any user ever found themselves in a situation that required copyright enforcement with their property on Facebook. That precedence could be used against them if they were to ever try to legally protect those works in the future. Granted, this isn't as pertinent an issue to a layman user as it is say, a professional photographer, etc. but intellectual property can be a "have them and not need them rather than need them and not have them" situation.

Re: Social media and journalists: a lot of evangelizing to do

Dana — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:49:46 -0000

"Seems at odds with with idea that readers aren’t savvy. They’re savvy enough to look for news when they want it, but not to know how credible the sources are?"

I appreciate the question. Many traditional journalists view themselves as the gatekeepers of information and that the readership is, for the lack of a better word, the clueless proletariat. The truth of the matter is that print media needs its readers so as to remain relevant, not the other way around as many assume. Nothing kills progress like elitism. This is an attribute of traditional journalism's postmortem status: they underestimate and disregard their readers; they have outlived their original purpose and thus gave way for social media to become the new penny press. Your colleagues reactions seem to confirm that.

Re: Social media and journalists: a lot of evangelizing to do

Dana — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:52:58 -0000

No, and I would not suggest that all those in print media are. I would think that your post refutes that idea. But it still remains that many in traditional journalism - print and broadcast - underestimate their readers. Social media was born partly as a result of that. Many still ignore the relevancy of new media - despite the amount of stories broken by places like Powerline and Drudge. Everyone is too worried about protecting their bottom line and until that feeling subsides I think that disparity will continue to exist.

Re: Scary parallels between newspaper and music industries

Dana — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:54:41 -0000

Danger Mouse is part of the performing/founding duo as well as producer of Gnarls Barkley.
The only problem is that you're assuming that the quality of work - news and music - is the same both online and in traditional formats. It's not, which is why digital downloads will never overtake CDs. Mp3s are a much lower quality format than disc (you can make that argument with CDs and vinyl, but the difference between CD format and mp3 is so audibly astounding that I cannot rely on downloads alone). I think it's a good tactic for pushing disc sales - if I buy the mp3 I typically buy the album. These bands know this which is why they save (usually) the full releases and all bonuses for disc sale. I don't think its radical enough to call it innovation yet.

That aside, I do think that the quality of news online is often times better than the traditional "compact disc" release.

Re: The line between ivory tower and careful reporting?

Dana — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:49:55 -0000

It's the media's job to distribute information to the public, not to arbitrarily assess the value of it or present certain aspects of it in a way irrelevant to the overall story.

The story with this is the motivation behind such studies. That the methodology was suspect seems enough reason to warrant it as a news item with emphasis on how it would affect the city.

Re: Great Balls of Stress

Dana — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:22:38 -0000

You're welcome. It's such a good idea and they look great!

Re: A Very Merry X-Mas to Me!

Dana — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:45:12 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: Moving Pictures

Dana — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:13:36 -0000

I love how babies are fascinated by their own feet as they learn to walk.
Too cute.

Re: InterPLAY & PlaySTL 2008

Dana — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:04:17 -0000

It was great to see you again and thanks so much for your help at the tent! As busy as we all were it was still a blast.

(Mmmm potato. I still haven't forgiven Chris's friend for eating my cheeseballs.)

Danas last blog post..Weekend recovery

Re: Alltop- Encouraging the Mainstream

Dana — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:12:29 -0000

Love how Alltop functions. I use Bloglines and other feed readers, but that doesn't stop me from checking Alltop as it's a big collection of my favorite sites and I prefer the simple, minimalist layout.

Re: Emmis No Longer Paying for Employee Parking

Dana — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:20:16 -0000

Er, no. I work at Emmis. They cover parking. Parking prices have increased and they are merely selective as to whom is issued a swipe pass as opposed to paper passes.