Here are some updates and final thoughts about some items from the recent past. Blogger harassment series update There was much discussion on the last series of posts about fired soccer coach Terri Patraw and her harassment of Reno blogger Ryan Jerz. First there were a number of comments in response to the final [...]
March 26, 2009
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that in the past month I have been pitched to no less than three times (two directly, one indirectly) to purchase print advertisements. One I deliberately ignored twice (sorry, New York Times), the other was a fruitless hour and half leaving me with an empty heart; not because the ROI on [...]
March 6, 2009
A Summary of the Undercover Food Lion Story The University of Nevada’s “J-week,” a series of cutting-edge journalism events running this week, is just about over. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend two lectures yesterday. Lynne Dale, former reporter and producer from ABC’s Primetime Live, gave a tell-all account of going undercover [...]
January 30, 2009
Bill Sledzik’s blog, Tough Sledding, is one of the very few I get excited to read when a new post shows up. So it was with anticipation that I was waiting when it was announced on Tough Sledding the he and Andy Curran, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, were to release [...]
January 4, 2009
If blogs are good for one thing, it’s for stirring up a good shit storm. That’s been the case since blogs have been around. Daniel Solove’s book, “The Future of Reputation,” wonderfully details the more noted online controversies in the history of the Internet. And in Reno, ever since I began reading the blogs here [...]
May 16, 2009