Last week we had good news and bad news. The good news was that class was shortened. The bad news was that there was a quiz before the class was shortened. The good news is that most folks did pretty well on the quiz. The bad news is that your were left with a lot of homework.

Your instructor was in Nashville for the Southeast Journalism Conference, a three-day confabulation that focused on student journalists through a variety of symposia, on-site competitions, and education outside the classroom.

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In a full page ad in the New York Times, a consortum of newspapers announced that they are fighting back against what they termed is the premature obituary for the newspaper industry.

Does this bring to mind Mark Twain’s famous retort when it was widely reported that the literary icon had died: “News of my death has been greatly exaggerated”?

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As we experiment with blogs in MC106 this semester, it might be helpful to consult some experts. Just what is blogging? How fast is it growing? What are the basics of blogging? How do I get started?

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This is a reminder that there is a quiz on Thursday, Feb. 12 on Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 (through page 48). Good luck.

I am off to the Southeast Journalism Conference being held at Belmont University in Nashville. I am accompanying six UAB students who will compete on site and attend various educational sessions.

You can read about it online by CLICKING HERE.

One session will compare notes from student editors at two schools in the Southeast — Ole Miss and Belmont — that hosted Presidential Debates. Should be interesting.

We will see you Thursday, Feb. 19, for a discussion of interviewing principles and covering the news.

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Of the thousands of pictures taken at Barack Obama’s Inaugural, few have the impact of the massive image knitted together from over 200 separate images and taken from the left side of the viewing area.

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Over one in three adults now have joined a social network on the Internet during the past four years. These findings were revealed by the Pew Foundation following research by its Internet and Amrican Life project that showed eight percent of adults who have joined in to a social network had exploded to a 25 percent share by 2009.

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