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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:13 PM

Be patient: The future isn't coming so fast you can't catch up

There are some days I yearn for the days of a notebook and a pen. Those days were relatively easy: jot down notes, write a story. Well, writing is never easy. “Just sit down at a typewriter and open a vein,” said Red Smith. Producing
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:09 PM

Our first multimedia project

I learn by example and improve through feedback. I’m getting much of the former but too little of the latter, since I ventured into an emphasis on multimedia journalism. When writing stories for 1A, I could get feedback by going out for breakfast.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:03 PM

Slideshows: They're not just for photographers

Fellow multimedia reporter Stan Finger was already grinning, when I walked into work this morning. He’d just found a slide show waiting in his in-box. A teenager had fallen into a river outside Wichita, and emergency crews staged a daring
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:00 PM

Way Cool Tool

Here’s something that fits everything multimedia into your back pocket with all the convenience of a notebook.It’s the Nokia 93I: the latest generation of smartphone. I don’t have one, yet, but it looks impressiveThe N93i has a screen that flips 160
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:58 PM

Put down the notebook, step away slowly and no one will get hurt

A reporter frantically runs up to the on-line news desk. “My editor just asked me: What’s the online component for my story?” the reporter gasps. As the reporter shakes, eyes shut, clicking heels together and muttering “There’s no place like home...”
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:34 PM

Docs to go

Wear a flash drive around your neck. That's the great advice of Mike McGraw, a Pulitzer-winning special projects reporter with the Kansas City Star. He stopped by Wichita for the National Writers Workshop here this past weekend, then gave another
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Monday, May 21, 2007 4:27 PM

Is text a verb?

My wife and I use text messages all the time. She’s a lawyer. I cover courts. One of us is usually in a courtroom. We coordinate schedules, pick up kids, make plans. Did I mention we use them all the time? Then we got our monthly bill. I had 500
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 4:21 PM

Having the time of my life

The edict came down at The Wichita Eagle, as it did , or will, in newsrooms across the country: you will be concentrating more on-line the coming year. As the announcement was made this past November, I saw my colleagues around me, their eyes
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