Today marks a milestone in my life. My long lost pen has been returned to me after over 2 years of separation. I joke, 100% – I took this pen to a taping of Online with Erin a few years ago, left it in the studio. Erin took great care of it. She even put it in a super secret place to keep it safe….then forgot where she put it 🙂
Well she found it and today was the blessed reunion! I love you Erin. What fun! You rock!
Oh what a storm the @PostCrescent has started with what seemed like a harmless article in the Saturday edition of their newspaper. The president of the PC, Genia Lovett wrote a column titled “Post-Crescent journalists shouldn’t have signed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recall petitions” The piece really opens up a can of worms in my mind. This is such a polarizing article or editorial, not sure what to call it actually. The article leads with talk about journalistic integrity and transparency. The discussion about bias and what employees can and can’t do on their free time also touched upon. You MUST look at the comments.
I could not get enough of the comments, refreshing my browser several times a day to see the new ones. I spend a good part of the day calling and texting friends to see if they had seen the article and to get their take. I needed a second opinion to see if I was way off base thinking this was blowing up to be huge. Well I was not far off base at all.
All seemed well till I saw that this article written by Genia, was not really written by Genia. The same article showed up on the Green Bay and Fond du Lac newspapers also *facepalm*. OH NO!
I love the PC. I read it daily and have MANY great friends who work at the PC. I love what they do and how hard they work. This reflects so poorly on those great people!
Such food for thought about the constitutional rights of employees and then this…
What happened to transparency? Or is this the new transparency?
Sadly the message of the article is lost on the method in which it was distributed.
Read more here –> http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120324/APC0101/203240566/Genia-Lovett-column-Post-Crescent-journalists-shouldn-t-signed-Wisconsin-Governor-Scott-Walker-recall-petitions
So this week we got word that Encyclopedia Britannica was stopping production of it’s printed edition after 200+ years. I’m actually stunned it lasted this long. I always thought that CD’s were a transitional technology for them and I guess that holds true. Is the yellow pages next?
Do you dive into political conversations on social media? Or do you stay far away? Tommy and Lisa talk about politics in the social media sphere.
Lisa and Tommy talk about the new Amazon Kindle Fire and what role it plays in the marketplace.