After listening to a TED Talk by Jane McGonigal I finally found the inspiration to write down what I think a healthy community website should look like.
The communities I participate in are HItRecord and BlogHer. These communities work.
[You could count Facebook and Twitter on there, but I would categorize those as more social networking, and [...]
This is in essence my journalistic philosophy, what I learned from my masters at the UNR Reynolds School of Journalism, and a large part of my thesis. Please enjoy and tell me what you think!
My mom gave in to the deep brown eyes and shiny bald head of Montel and bought his Health Master mixer. It is HUGE. I’ve yet to try out yet, though.
So, in the spirit of eating healthy, I borrowed “The Food You Crave” by Ellie Krieger. She hosts Healthy Appetite on Food Network.
In case you [...]
Offer that program, or one like it, to concerned parents who feel overwhelmed by the media deluge themselves, to help turn them into better media consumers and to give them ways to help their children.
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Dan Gillmor over at Mediactive wrote this post about how schools should change their journalism curriculum. Below is my response. [...]
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Sam sent me a link to this interesting map using geotags with references to Sex, Allah, Hindu, Buddha, and Jesus.
My concern is that the geotagged places may not have been done by locals, but by tourists. This map seems to imply that these tags reflect local values and beliefs. But what [...]
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I hate treadmills. The name just makes me think of gerbils’ futile efforts. I saw a commercial today for the NordicTrack X7I which let’s you program your run based on a geographical areas terrain using Google Maps. You can even see yourself running around the map – they call it progress, I still [...]
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I just wanted to take a moment to say “Thank You” to Gloria Allred. It warms my cold, cynical heart that there is vicious, passionate, hard-hitting lawyer out there fighting for women’s rights and issues. Also – thank you to Nancy Grace for being so fierce. Sure, they’re both assholes, but we need [...]
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This Project Runway design challenge turned the saying “She’d look good in a potato sack,” into reality.
Amy Sarabi created this dress and it was my favorite. It didn’t win but it really used the inner potato sackness to great effect. There’s an element of fantasy with [...]
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Ann on Feministing posted this neato picture of Steve Jobs holding up the iPad, which sounds suspiciously like a feminine hygiene product. But the iPad doesn’t come with wings, so boo on Apple for that!
Here is the problem with not doing user testing or doing bad user testing: you come out [...]
Every once in awhile I like to lose myself in a series of sci-fi or fantasy novels. First it was Roald Dahl, then Lord of the Rings, then Harry Potter. I read Harry Potter over and over again until the seventh book finally came out. On the hunt for a new adventure, I came across [...]
I've never been one for resolutions at the beginning of a year. But I think this year is a good one to start. I've graduated, I'm looking for new career opportunities…so it's a good time to set some short and long term goals to help get down the right path in this new life I'm [...]
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In this episode, Leslie has to prove that she did not have an affair with a councilman and the office misses her when she has to lay low for the media frenzy.
When the first season aired, the writers were really harsh on Leslie. No one liked her and everything she touched [...]
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