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Speed sells.At about 10:30 am, thanks to Jen Moore’s sharp ears yesterday morning we figured that some indistinct scanner chatter was likely about a boy, a boy who’d fallen nine storeys – and lived. Gary Yokoyama needed no urging, grabbed a video camera and flew down to the Jackson St. scene, as did reporter Paul Legall and photog Kaz Novak. We had the "Hey something’s happening" item on NewsNow within 10 mins., and a solid, accurate bare bones version of the story within 25 mins. Most impressively we had our first video report — complete with video of the
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It’s me, Karlo Berkovich, visiting dignitary from Waterloo Region. Back at Web U today. The same old, same old. Update the web. Do this. Do that. What a bunch of slavedrivers! Little do they know I was here at 8:15 a.m. (we get underway at 9) so, bleah. I’m outta here after this post.
Look, ya want me to blog, I can only be my natural aggravating self.
Anyway, things got interesting this afternoon when Bill Dunphy gave us a blogging lesson. I already blog at The Record and figured I’d only pay cursory attention — OK, that’s true,
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As a way of introducing myself,this is my first blog post at the advanced age of 47. Let’ try using some of the tools and connections mentioned by webman Bill Dunphy. Suppose we start with a web link such as the strobist , a photo site for creative use of your camera flashes. If your looking for contemporary photo topics and issues check out PDN.
Shall we insert an email address as we learn more about the world according to blog. Send all your opinions to me.
At this time I’ll insert a photo onto the page from
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It’s day two locked in this airless hellhole, deep in enemy Go territory. and, I’m alive. I’m pretty sure. For a news guy like me, it’s damn tough being surrounded by so many people with smiles on their faces, new products on their desks, and celeberty gossip on their lips. But actually all that’s outside the WebU bunker, arrayed around it like row upon row of green and friendly tank traps.
Inside WebU, I feel a lot more at home. People are hunched and scowling, pounding their keyboards and screaming into phones at recalicitrant police officials and hapless bureaucrats.
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And they’ve got me working. School shouldn’t be work. But seriously, this is fun. And the only way to learn and brush up on skills.
I’m Karlo Berkovich, associate editor/online at The Record and I’m here to pick up tips.
I’ve learned a lot since I took my job, moving over from being sports editor, on Sept. 5/06. I’d been blogging before that and posting some breaking news so moving to the web fulltime as essentially a coordinator between the newsroom and the web centre techies seemed a natural fit.
I now do tons of breaking news
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It was frustrating at times, but at the end of a Web U week, I’ve created a blog that illustrates all the limits of the idea I had for it. And perhaps some of the promise, too. Check it out: bjohnston.blogspot.comIt was really useful to try to actually apply a concept for a blog. The challenges were far more about a workable concept than about how technically to get it up and running. How big or small a focus should this have? Who might use it? What would bring them to the site or bring them back? Is there
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The idea is very cool. A whole week to learn about using the web, with a focus on some kind of project. Blogging was what I wanted to learn about, with a sideorder of introduction to video. So it’s odd, as we are being introduced to this supposedly high tech world, that the biggest frustration is just the usual, low-level computer failures. Tuesday afternoon, we couldn’t upload to The Spectator’s News Now, one of the most basic things we are supposed to be doing. This morning, I’ve twice had to call the tech folks just to make the
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As often as we can, we’ll be posting the WebU projects after the students complete them. Here’s a great 3 min video that Jeff Day and Gary Webb (a Visa student from downstairs) made this week, based on a suggestion from Bob Hutton.
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So you buy a bottle of wine from the LCBO. Pay maybe $12, $14. But how much is it really worth? We all have bought into the idea that it’s OK to pay high taxes on booze, because that funds our expensive government social programs and keeps taxes off or lower on things like milk and children’s shoes. And, of course, drinking is a luxury, not a necessity.But strip away those taxes, and what would pay? The money that Ontario pockets from your purchase is multi-layered. They start with what they actually pay from the bottle to arrive here.
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