A while back I participated in a usability test for the new WRAL.com. The site is now up and has some interesting features. No longer are our local newspapers the only news outlets with blogs. WRAL has several like The Skinny on local tech, High School Hoops, WRAL Sports: The ACC & Beyond, and more. [...]
Every weekday morning I get coffee at Caribou on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Its near the bus stop I get off at. I’ve been going there for several months and enjoy the coffee.
About one month ago I overhead one of the guys working there talk about writing for The Carolina Review, a conservative [...]
Saturday February 10, 2007 a large coalition of people from all over the state will gather at General Assembly Memorial Auditorium in Downtown Raleigh, NC for H K on J. Arrive at 11:00 am. The Program will be at 12:00 p.m. Thousands will march to Legislative Building on Jones Street. Bellow the fold you can [...]
Yesterday Anton, Bora, and I helped introduce blogging to about 12 people. It was a pre-conference event for the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference.
Check out Anton’s EXCELLENT NCSBC Pre-conference skills session page. These exercises were quite effective in helping people get hands on experience with blogs. You could see the fear of blogs melt [...]
Orange Chat
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Welcome to Orange Chat
Did you ever read a story and say, “I wish the reporter had asked …”
Well, the truth is sometimes we did but there wasn’t space to put it in the paper.
Welcome to Orange Chat, where we hope to expand on the Orange and Chatham County coverage we [...]
Astroturf-ing
In politics and advertising, the term astroturfing describes formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the reference to the “AstroTurf” (artificial grass) is a metaphor to indicate “fake grassroots” support.
After I wrote the post Criticize Congress go to jail?, with a link and quote [...]
All the presidential campaigns better look into this ASAP.
Update: Read Was I duped by Astroturf?.
Congress to Send Critics to Jail, Says Richard Viguerie
MANASSAS, Va., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a statement by Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of GrassrootsFreedom.com,
regarding legislation currently being considered by Congress to regulate grassroots communications:
“In what sounds like a comedy sketch [...]
What is going on? Last weekend here in Chapel Hill it was 70 degrees. Now we have a light, but sticky, covering of snow on the ground. Is this extreme weather related to Global Warming? Is this the effect of a El Niño on Global Warming?
One respected climate scientist who has gone out on a [...]
Bora Zivkovic has compiled a great new book called The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006. Its a herculean effort to promote science bloggers (aka science writers) and augment this weekends North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. It contains 336 pages from 50 blog posts. Please go get yourself a copy at LuLu.com. [...]
If you could goto any conference real or yet to be done what would it be? Unconference or traditional conference. Please leave your ideas in the comments or contact me with my contact form. More details later. Thank you.
BTW… I’m going to the NC Science Blogging Conference this Saturday. Hope you can make it. More [...]
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