Disqus - Latest Comments for step

Re: Why Delicious is an effective teaching tool for journalism educators

bob stepno — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:45:32 -0000

See links to keyword selections from a huge deli collection in left rail here: http://www.radford.edu/~rst...

And keyword/tag sublists in widgets at these Wordpress sites:

http://jheroes.com/

http://aejmc.net/news/

Re: The (safe) future of Radio and Manila. (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:05:39 -0000

Dave & Jake & friends,

Just adding my thanks for your work and dedication to your old products and customers...

Getting into Manila early in 2001 and Radio in April 2002, I felt like I was on the elite end of Gibson's line, "The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed."

It's good to hear that you'll be keeping a good chunk of the past distributed, too!

(Last summer I made a mirror at http://stepno.com/oldblog for my old
http://radio.weblogs.com/01... and made http://stepno.com/blog the link to new stuff.)

Re: Person of the Decade?! (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:33:07 -0000

Happy New Year, Dave...

Quite a coincidence seeing this post on top of the blog, when I'd come over to check whether you'd run into this other item:

http://www.merinews.com/art...

Regards,

Bob
http://stepno.wordpress.com

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:11:00 -0000

This is a test after moving my oldblog from radio.weblogs.com to http://www.stepno.com/oldblog

I should have moved the whole comment system to Disqus long ago, but got too busy to deal with the blog back then. As a result, all those years of comments were lost when I moved the site.

Re: davewiner's Twitter profile

bob stepno — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:07:30 -0000

Hi Dave... Off-topic, but did you know about the radio.weblogs shutdown? Nostalgia: http://bit.ly/sUaYZ

Bob or @bobstep

Re: An apology to Radio users (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:37:50 -0000

As a Radio user since 2002, apology accepted -- but hardly needed. I remember at least suspecting Adam's feed had some special status -- and not caring. (My http://couranteer.com radio blog and a Manila site alternated with http://boblog.blogspot.com as classroom demos, never a business or scene of any great ego-involvement.)
Bringing up a seven-year-old story (for those not too bored by it) might have added transparency to your argument about the Twit-elite. But "Credibility permanently shot"? Nonsense.

Re: What about Sy Hersh? (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:09:46 -0000

Also...
Berkeley: http://journalism.berkeley....
and...
http://www.centerforinvesti...

and...
Columbia: http://tinyurl.com/46x7l2
The School’s investigative journalism faculty includes:
* Walt Bogdanich, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter of The New York Times;
* Wayne Barrett, investigative reporter and senior editor of the Village Voice;
* Robert Port,investigative editor of the Albany Times-Union;
* Tom Torok, chief database editor of The New York Times; and
* Jim Mintz, a leading private investigator in New York and head of the MintzGroup.

Re: What about Sy Hersh? (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:08:16 -0000

Try this RSS feed for other investigative reporting story links... http://www.ire.org/extraext...
(http://www.ire.org/extraext...
IRE is housed at the U of Missouri; see this about investigative reporting by its faculty and students:
http://tinyurl.com/ammvfe

Re: One more time -- open the news industry! (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:26:06 -0000

Disqus seems to have dropped my previous response about the variety of Pulitzer categories, but this one's more on topic anyway:
http://www.pulitzer.org/arc...
http://www.pulitzer.org/wor...

Re: One more time -- open the news industry! (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:10:59 -0000

There are lots of Pulitzer categories.

Some winners are well-funded team projects like the Post's Walter Reed stories:
http://www.pulitzer.org/wor...

Others are for one dedicated reporter's digging into public records:
http://www.pulitzer.org/wor...

... or analysis of a complex issue:
http://www.pulitzer.org/wor...

Or using all the people and all the tools you can on a breaking story:
http://www.pulitzer.org/wor...

... Or for creative storytelling about one day on a subway platform:
http://www.pulitzer.org/wor...

Re: Radioshift from Rogue Amoeba (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:26:06 -0000

Hi Dave,

Looks like nifty software, but why not use Fresh Air's podcast?
http://www.npr.org/rss/podc...

I do see some comments in iTunes Store about the podcasts being incomplete or edited.

Thanks for getting me to poke around both sites... I didn't realize F.A. had an online archive:
http://www.npr.org/template...

cheers,
Bob
PS Congrats on being #19!

Re: Chin-dropping photo (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:40:41 -0000

Hi Dave,
Great shot indeed.
Can you link to a page with AP's caption and photographer credit?
Maybe you do and I've missed it.
"The best photographers in the world" should get recognition!

http://www.flickr.com/photo...
-- has a copyright symbol and "All rights reserved" at the bottom,
and at the top it says " Uploaded on July 24, 2008 by scriptingnews"

I can't tell whether the copyright is to AP, AFP, Flickr or WinerPhotographics...

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere... late night quick visit.

Thanks again for pointing us to the image,
Bob
http://stepno.com/blog

Re: Why I don't like 'crowd sourcing' (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:56 -0000

Looking for a more positive word for "tapping the collective wisdom of lots of individuals," I had a"Doh" moment: For full-time reporters telling important stories, "get more sources" always has been the standard approach, not a special category. Maybe we don't need a special term, or won't need one for long.

Re: NewsJunk.com: Feedback

bob stepno — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:56:05 -0000

Looks fine from here now... Thanks, Dave... and I actually got some stuff
*done* instead of reading more news today! :-)

Re: NewsJunk.com: Feedback

bob stepno — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:37:12 -0000

Where'd everything go? x.newsjunk.com links are 404 this morning

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:55:38 -0000

Suspicion confirmed. Now that I'm back on the Mac I use most of the time, both the "step" and "danielha" posts are accompanied by our smiling faces... I also updated the original page in Radio (adding the "so far so good" phrase without scrambling the plug-in code for the comments.

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:25:47 -0000

Aha... the icons show up in Internet Explorer, just not in Firefox. Perhaps I have a Firefox preference setting somewhere that blocks images that come from an address other than that of the page they appear on...

Addition: Aha (again) Now I'm at the forum page and saw an "edit" button beneath this most recent note of mine... so I'm editing it. But I don't see a similar way to edit the earlier post with the misspelling. That's ok, since I've run out of time for this session. Very cool Disqussion, Daniel! I'll be back when I've caught up with other stuff... (including picking up the new eyeglasses that will reduce the number of typos)
Bob

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:21:14 -0000

OK... the links are working. Still no pix. And I wish I could quickly edit the typo in "showing"/"shoring" in my last note.

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:19:37 -0000

For some reason my Radio story page isn't picking up the 32px avatar icons. Testing it even inspired me to go upload a picture -- but neither the generic one nor your pic was shoring up.
http://radio.weblogs.com/01...
(This entry also is testing whether raw HTML works in the comment post.)

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:02:30 -0000

I should note that it actually may be possible to apply Radio's own commenting feature to these "story" pages, but I haven't edited a Radio template in years... There's a lot going on behind the scenes in Radio and its original Frontier scripts that I never had the time, patience, or (perhaps) gray matter to deal with...

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:56:07 -0000

When I have a break from grading (Christmas?), maybe I'll go back and retrofit some of my earlier "stories" pages so that students can comment. But I need to explore Disqus some more to make sure I won't be buried in a pile of spam or some other delicacy...

Re: Testing Disqus

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:03:51 -0000

It looks like the thing works!

Re: Fandom on Facebook (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:14:41 -0000

Answering your question... I guess this is where you set up a "fannable" page:
http://www.facebook.com/bus...
Couldn't help noticing the NYT shows up as a "Product" while my local paper, The Roanoke Times shows up as a "Store" with a different format address... Maybe the RT just use the "store" heading from the "other local business" menu when it created the site. "Communications" shows up on the "product" list, not on the "local" one.
http://www.facebook.com/nyt...
http://www.facebook.com/pro...

Re: Fandom on Facebook (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:59:30 -0000

The "you guessed x" response annoys me too. A simple "you answered..." would be better impartial journalism.
Maybe there should be a multiple-choice full disclosure: "A. I guessed." "B. I looked up the answers." "C. I had help from my journalism class." "D. I watched Countdown." "E. I really did read The Times, honest..." "F. I only watch Fox."
:-)
(C for me some of the time)

Re: RSS 2.0 comments element (Scripting News)

bob stepno — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:17:20 -0000

vincent-- The pencil Dave's talking about is part of the Radio 8 aggregator, which runs on your computer, not a server. The pencil is part of the view of your incoming feeds. Click the pencil and the comment window pops open, as if you were at the blog's Web page. A little speaker icon indicates whether there's an audio file linked to the blog post... Something folks started calling a "podcast" a couple of years ago. Radio's the venerable multifunction blog editor from Dave's old company, Userland. Some of us do keep using it. :-)
Picture here: http://radio.weblogs.com/01...