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I have three sorts of things I want to write about for Sunday Salon today, so I broke them into clever alliterative headings. “Books” is about my reading life this week, “Blogging” is about some minor changes to Sophisticated Dorkiness, and “My Broadcasting” is about some writing I had published around the web this [...]
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This week author Michal Pollan was in Madison for a huge series of events because his book In Defense of Food was picked for UW-Madison’s first ever common reading program, Go Big Read. It feels like the whole campus has been buzzing because of his visit.
Or, it just feels like the whole campus because [...]
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One of my assignment for my magazine writing class this semester is to blog regularly over at Eat. Drink. Better., a member of Green Options Media that “invites readers to explore the environmental issues surrounding their food choices.”
I’ll be blogging about healthy eating and nutrition specifically, with a side emphasis on books since that’s something [...]
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I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’ve been interning at The Capital Times this summer. Along with learning about online journalism, posting stories to the web, writing features for print, and generally helping out, I also spent a long time working on a multimedia project.
The project is an interactive timeline about the day of [...]
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I finally found a way to upload my first multimedia project online! To view the project, click on the picture at right and a new window will pop up with the audio slideshow. If you’re interested, check out these previous posts about my experience doing multimedia reporting, and my experience putting the project together.
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In last week’s edition of Journalism Friday I wrote about my process of reporting and doing audio editing for my first multimedia story — a project about Art and Maral Shegonee’s Kids in the Rotunda performance at the Overture Center. This week in class we worked on photo editing using Adobe Photoshop, so I’m just [...]
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I just found out today that an article I submitted for publication in January was published! The story is called “Independent bookstores fight for survival”, and can be found in 77 Square, a local arts and entertainment guide in Madison!
For all you long-time readers out there, I’ve mentioned this particular story a couple of times; [...]
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I finally did some reporting this semester, which I’m excited to tell you about for Journalism Friday, my weekly post on journalism and j-school. My first assignment for Integrated Multimedia Storytelling is an audio and photo project. We need to edit 30-60 seconds of audio, then tie it to 10-15 pictures for a slideshow. Although [...]
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I’ve been inspired and excited by reading through all the goals people have posted about. It’s given me a lot of food for thought as I try to formulate my own goals for 2009.
Make time for personal reading. In 2008 I read a lot of books for class that I reviewed here, but in [...]
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It’s been what, like six days since I last posted? I didn’t meant abandon Sophisticated Dorkiness for that long, but once I finished my book blogging paper (which you can download and read by clicking on the link), I just lost all motivation to do anything that involved thinking. So, no books read and no [...]
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