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Wilbert Rideau
For Article: Sending letters, memos or links to Romenesko
Posted by A. Guillotte 1/18/2005 4:22:51 PM

Linda LaBranche is going to the LA Times but won't even talk to the Lake Charles American Press. It's a sweet deal: The paper looks slow, stupid, or better yet, racist -- when, in fact, we're the only medium in the city that's going to run his side of the story, and is trying, and failing, to do it without his cooperation. This all happened here, and the paper's running Associated Press wire copy. It's just pathetic.

Last night, KPLC (bashed by the U.S. Supreme Court for contributing to the original trial's "kangaroo court" proceedings) went to Sulphur - which is even whiter than Lake Charles - and quizzed a bunch of people, all white, on their feelings about Rideau. Not surprisingly, they all wanted him to stay in jail -- one special man wanted the jury that freed him to serve the measure of Rideau's time. (Surprisingly, however, the package isn't on their Web site.) This was after a package with the son of the bank manager Rideau shot talking about how big of a disappointment the verdict was, and how the prosecution did everything they could to keep Rideau behind bars -- that being the promo tag on their Web site, if I remember correctly. (http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2819604) They also made sure to post the results from the viewer's poll about Rideau's release, which showed 3-to-1 that Internet users of KPLC's Web site disagreed with the conviction -- something that couldn't be further from being representative of the city.

Where is the black community here going to get news on this if LaBranch and Rideau won't talk to the newspaper, and KPLC is only visibly concerned with sympathizing with angry white people? From the Los Angeles Times? The Houston Chronicle?

Flawed in Firefox
For Article: A More Friendly Registration Demand
Posted by A. Guillotte 1/10/2005 5:49:07 PM

At least on Mac. Keep on tryin'.

Community
For Article: Young People Dumping Newspapers for Online?
Posted by A. Guillotte 12/1/2004 1:32:48 AM

Don't forget the community aspects of Internet media, especially blogs and aggregators. If I want video game news and reviews, the last place I look is a video game magazine -- I go to a community site of people who enjoy video games, whether it's a mainstream-driven site like gamespot.com or the forums of penny-arcade.com.

Could newspapers be too broad for a young generation that's not only grown up online, but with online communities that stretch back to AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy's chatrooms in the '90s? MMORPGs and gaming clans? Forums, message boards and newsgroups?

What about niche magazines -- why are many of them booming in comparison to newspapers?

TrackBack
For Article: Bloggers Are Talking About You; Link to Them
Posted by A. Guillotte 11/18/2004 5:59:37 PM

Isn't this more commonly known (and automated) as TrackBack?

(Other People) Finding Stuff on Your Desktop
For Article: Finding Stuff on Your Desktop
Posted by A. Guillotte 10/25/2004 9:06:30 PM

I'm leery on even considering using Google Desktop as a journo. These index files aren't necessarily a gigabyte, and there are thumb drives that store a gig or more anyway -- if the wrong person sits at your computer and copies the index, and they can search all your e-mail, your Web history, and every searchable document on your computer as if it was on theirs -- even if you deleted it. (Don't even get me started on remote access of the index files.) It's a photographic memory that can be stolen, and that doesn't bode well if I'm working on sensitive stuff. But if I turn Google Desktop off, I don't benefit from having it.

Plus, Google Desktop doesn't respect multiple user accounts, so if I do a search on a computer used by several people, I'll pull up hits on their e-mails and Web documents -- no hacking necessary. Google says that's a feature, not a bug, and to not use Desktop on multiple-user computers. All of our newsroom computers are accessed by other people in the newsroom regularly, so there's no way this will catch on at work in its current form.

There's nothing inherently bad about Google Desktop -- it's very useful in ways that the other searches aren't, true -- but you just have to practice good computer security (like you should anyway) if you choose to use it. (You know, kinda like how you're supposed to exercise and eat three or so servings of fruits and veggies each day.) It doesn't index anything that isn't or hasn't been stored on your computer -- look at your browser cache lately? Just pay attention when you install it and turn off indexing of things you know you don't want others to see.

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/3421621
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000264.html

Too much to do?
For Article: SND 2004: Good Vibrations
Posted by A. Guillotte 10/15/2004 12:05:22 AM

The same people do the teasers and the front page?

Weird. How big is that paper?

Buckhead ID?
For Article: Journalism in the Age of Blogs
Posted by A. Guillotte 10/15/2004 12:01:13 AM

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2801677

Dated 9/17/04

"By PETER WALLSTEN
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON - It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service � a technical explanation posted on the Internet within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes and who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Los Angeles Times has found.

...

Reached by telephone Friday, MacDougald, 46, confirmed that he is Buckhead but declined to answer questions about his political background or how he knew so much about the CBS documents so fast."

Was this debunked while I was absent?

To Hell with watermelons.
For Article: Talking Race Over a Slice of Watermelon
Posted by A. Guillotte 7/29/2003 9:40:25 PM

I'm white. I'm 22. I've lived in Louisiana, north and south, my entire life.

I have eaten from at least 1,000 watermelons in my life. I have served watermelon at homeless shelters. I have served watermelon to hundreds of kids at three years of summer camps.

I have served and been served watermelon at restaurants, at summer picnics, by my family, by strangers, by friends, by college dorm administrators.

And I can easily say that, out of all of the watermelons that I have eaten, served, shared--out of all of them that I've even seen--maybe 30% of them, if even that much, were eaten by non-whites. I've seen as many Vietnamese and Japanese kids eating watermelons than blacks.

I've got three things to say here:
1.) Everybody eats watermelons in the South during the summer because it's a refreshing food in hot, humid weather. If I had to pin when watermelon-eating became a negative act, I'd point Northward, then back in time.

2.) The vast majority of black people that I've known don't know, or at least won't admit to knowing, anything about a watermelon stereotype. Those that do know about it laugh at the fact that some black people are still offended by it.

3.) To hear about such a serious discussion about an outmoded stereotype--it's not even black people eating watermelon here, it's a STACK OF WATERMELONS--with a group of young journalists disappoints the hell out of me. I'd be happier if, when asked the question, the response was a wall of blank stares broken by someone asking, "What the hell are you talking about?"

Maybe I'm ahead of my time here, but
I'll say the problem here isn't the audience getting hung up on the journalists' intentions behind the photo. The problem is in the journalists themselves forgetting that the photo was truthful, representative and emotive. It told the story of the event. The story of the stereotype, however, was gleefully embedded by an old school worried about old problems borne of old people.

How about the Current Sauce for coolest newspaper name?
For Article: A convergence in Fairbanks
Posted by A. Guillotte 6/17/2003 12:59:16 AM

But I'm biased. College papers might not count.

Netscape/Mozilla
For Article: Google's Toolbar
Posted by A. Guillotte 5/21/2003 12:58:03 AM

For you Mozilla kids, you may already know about the built-in customizable sidebar (key F9).

It's not quite as neat as Google's proprietary toolbar but just as convenient for quick searches, and switching search engines is as simple as clicking through a drop-down list. You need to know a little about search engines and URLs to add new entries, but it's not hard to grasp and easy to find help. Mozilla's on-line help, the Mozilla Project site (mozilla.org), and Mozilla-loving Netizens are good places to start.

The upcoming Mozilla browser, codenamed Firebird, makes similar searches as easy as typing in the Address Bar. Want to Google for info on seat belt accidents in Louisiana? Go to the URL bar and type "google seat belts accidents Louisiana". Firebird Googles just like you entered those terms in the usual bar. IE does this, and Mozilla has for a while, but Firebird's unique because it's driven by bookmarks. Want other search engines? Just add them in the bookmarks. Advanced options? Follow Firebird's on-line help to decode your search engine's URL-passing search term forms to add them. Firebird comes built with support for Google and dictionary.com, and a few other searchers too.

Knowing how the web and search engines use URLs makes these features extremely powerful, down to being customizible to individual stories with just a quick refitting of terms. Does IE have them? Nope. It has a sidebar that can search different engines but is locked into a narrow range of options, many of them not surprisingly Microsoft-centric. (Encarta is the only Internet encyclopedia? Please.) Still, options are still options, and there are IE sidebar-related hacks too.

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