The last week has been nothing short of amazing for the community where I live and for the newsroom where I work.
Last Thursday, downtown Cedar Rapids and some surrounding neighborhoods suffered the worst flooding in history. The Cedar River crested at an all-time high of 31.1 feet, several feet above projected levels.
The downtown area is [...]
I am a whiner, at least lately. And in my current situation I’ve let some of that go too far, and have stopped doing anything other than the daily grind. My frustration had to do with a good amount of resources being pulled into other areas of concentration. I became the sucking sound of the [...]
A lot is being said about the recent news of Rob Curley leaving Washington Post Interactive and heading to Las Vegas after what appears to be an experiment in local news and information that, to date, has failed.
For an industry already full of depressing headlines, this one probably hurts the media industry ego the most [...]
I’ve been out of the game for a while, but starting to get back in the saddle. To help get me started again here are some interesting links I’ve read in the past few days that are worth sharing.
Here’s the latest from Lee and Sachi LeFever at CommonCraft, who explain social media in plain English.
Here [...]