Pimp Your Blog

Project Guidelines:This is due on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Create the coolest blog you can.
Play with design.
Use the Customize button to add features.
Write a blog entry explaining the process and why you chose the things you did.
Best blog wins a prize.
Grades:
A – Blew me away. Fun design, cool features.
Added photos, audio or video
B – Good blog, good blog.
C – It’s okay
D – It’s there
F – It’s not there
Please post the URL of your blog as a comment here. Include your name so I can give you proper credit.

Mmmmm. Bacon, sausage, Internet

Okay, so you create a blog. How do you get people to look at it? Here's a tasty lesson from the New York Times.

Cops and Trauma

Breaking the news isn't easy.

Funny coincidence

A few days ago, I received an issue of Nieman Reports in the mail.
It's from the Nieman Foundation found journalism at Harvard.
It's chock-full of reports about where journalism is heading.
Today, my son in Boston sent me this link to the Nieman Lab Web site, which describes itself as a "collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age."
Good to see someone besides us is trying to figure it out!

LSC Multimedia Contest Winner

LSC student Teelah Churchill has won a national contest for multimedia portrayals about the national debt, sponsored by the group Public Agenda. She also won the LSC U.S. National Debt YouTube Contest organized by professor David Plazek.
Plazek says there will be an award ceremony at 1 p.m. Feb. 3 in the Burke Mountain Room.

College instruction cuts

Check out this USA Today story suggesting colleges are spending less on instruction and more on other things.