We had an interesting exchange on Twitter the other day, about the lack of attention given by the media to lesser-known election candidates. Partially aside, it was the kind of thing I’ve been hoping to see for a while — a lively backchannel discussion about how local politics news is covered — and I hope [...]
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Lately I’ve been scouring the nets and local book-lenders for guidance and inspiration on writing. I stumbled on this at Nieman Storyboard [recommended, and the source of this post's title]: Now, just as I don’t know what a story is going to be when I start out working on it, I have no idea how to [...]
Thanks to the miracle of aggregation and analytics we now have a lot more rankings and crap than we know how to use — so many handy ways to see who has the most authority, influence, power, popularity… Reminds me a little of Pandora’s Box — eh? One thing hasn’t quite made it out of [...]
