My new friends and news warriors, courtesy of the Carole Kneeland Project

 
Spent the past 3 days in Dallas with the 2009 class of the Carole Kneeland Project’s Advanced Media Fellows.  I enjoyed sharing best practices for online news and social-network engagement with these very smart fellows and instructors, people and squirrels both.

Very cool day trip

We took a cool day trip today – to the ancient and mysterious Serpent Mound and to Ripley Ohio and specifically the 19th-century John Rankin House there.
Several cool photos posted on Facebook, but here’s one of the better ones – a panoramic photo of the Ohio River taken from the Rankin home backyard, which sits high [...]

My soon-to-be viral squirrel vacation photo

Perhaps you’ve seen the now-famous “squirrel in the shot” vacation photo from Banff, and perhaps you’ve seen the Top 10 fake squirrel-in-history photos.  Here’s my take:

If I were a WANTED man

Let’s face it.  I’m pretty much unwanted.  (cue violins!)  But let’s say I was a WANTED man, the kind you’d see on a poster at the post office.  And let’s say someone had to give a description of me to a police sketch artist.  Perhaps the sketch would come out like this. 
 There’s a nifty web [...]

Dang! That’s some big office-chair zucchini!

 One of our colleagues was passing out some home-grown zucchini today. I’m not a zucchini eater, but I do like the way they look sitting on an office chair.