Link Journalism

I really like the idea of link journalism. Sometimes it is really hard to find other information on a subject, but with linking, it is all right there for you. It will also give you a more vast variety of people's thoughts. You can get different sides of the story, as well as new info that you haven't seen before.

Interviewing Tips

After reading the article about getting good audio in an interview, I found it very relevant to a past problem I had with it. I had an interview two years ago with a cross-country runner from UW Parkside. He talked very quietly so i turned the volume on the recorder. I had the sound come back so bad that I couldn't understand it at all. After reading this article, I now know that I need to get the recorder closer to him. It was a good article with plenty of good tips.

Linking = Building Your Relevancy

I thought this blog was pretty good in showing how linking and search engines can conincide. I really thought though that the first line of this blog was extremely cheesy, "So for all of you who guessed linking would be this week’s topic, you get a gold star." It is key in linking to get good external links so that you can be credible, as well as getting your name out onto the web.

The End of Perfection

MEMPHIS,TENN. - With a shocking win in the closing seconds of the heavily anticipated #1 vs #2 game, Tennessee proved to everyone that they mean buisness.

After #2 Tennessee defeated #1 Memphis, they ended a Memphis 47 home winning streak, the longest in the country. Tennessee also stole the #1 spot as best team in Tennessee as well as #1 team in the nation.

With 26.5 seconds left in the game, Tyler Smith, a transfer from Iowa, hit a shot in the lane which locked up the win for Tennessee, 66-62 on Saturday night.

Chris Lofton, who had over 30 points against Memphis last year, was held to only 7 points on Saturday. He did however contribute to the Tennessee win by hitting a couple of free throws with 4.5 seconds left in the game.

Memphis, who hasn't lost at home since Jan. 2, 2006, was pretty bummed after this loss. "You guys all said we needed to lose one, so we lost one," said Memphis coach John Calipari. "Great game. I have to give them credit. They scrapped, they battled."

With coach Calipari using the New England Patriots as an example of how to remain undefeated, was hit by an opponent that shocked them like the Patriots. They were aiming to have the next undefeated season since Indiana in 1976.

When the polls come out later this week, they will surely be #1, for the first time in school history, as their fans who enjoyed the upset over Memphis were chanting, "We're No. 1! We're No. 1!"

Bruce Pearl, coach of Tennessee, said "I wanted to make sure our guys knew we were playing for something, I don't know if we're the best team in the country. I knew we were 40 minutes away from being No. 1." Pearl, who was going to wear his orange blazer for the game, will have to wear his blazer as a #1 coach against another in-state rival #16 Vanderbilt.

Original Article was written by Paul Newberry of the Associated Press-Star Tribune.

Blogging Between the Lines

I really liked this article, and how it talked about blogging being an advantage to newspapers. It is really hard to make specific rules to blogging, or even to get everyone to agree to others opinions on blogging, but I believe blogging can really help out newsrooms. At KEYC, our weatherman has his own blog, which a lot of people read to find out about the weather, and also because of of the like for the weatherman. I really feel that blogging is a good thing, and it will help out journalism in the long run.

Linking

After half a centruy of scholarly work, new documents about the lives ofJulius and Ethel Rosenberg have been made public."Certainly, after 50 years, the unique historical value of these records outweighs any secrecy rationale," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, which filed the petition, with support from more than a dozen scholars. The archive, based at George Washington University, is a nonprofit group that uses the Freedom of Information Act to challenge government secrecy.goAmong the historians were John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale, and Ronald Radosh, adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and past president of the Historians of American Communism.

Blogging

Blogging, even though some people don't agree, has really been one of the several advancements in the journalism world. After reading this article by Jack Loechner I have found that blogging is very speedy, and is readily available. Unlike other news media, blogging has its advantages, especially with commenting. You can't comment on tv, radio, or even newspapers immediately. Blogging will be around as long as the internet around, which just gives more people opportunities to write on what they feel, and also to comment on the world around them. I really like the quote at the end of the article by Jerry Johnson, head of strategic planing at Brodeur, that says "...reporters are still creating their stories by going out and developing their own ideas and talking to their sources… The blogosphere's tail is not wagging the media body - at least not yet."