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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New Year's Eve Potpourri
After a few days back east, I'm back in the Show-Me State to clean up a few items before we ring in the New Year:
- SOUR PURPLE POWER: Northwestern came oh-so-close to knocking off big ole' once-national-title-bound (psych!) Mizzou in the Alamo Bowl. It was gut-wrenching to watch them fall short. An explanation why: The Wildcats let in smarter kids. (Disclosure: I went to journalism school at NU.)
- KOSTER TAPS JUDGE: Attorney General-elect Chris Koster has selected Cass County Judge Joe Dandurand as his Deputy A.G. "Naturally, in our roles as judge and prosecutor, we have not always agreed on all issues. Through the years, however, we have developed a strong mutual professional and personal respect," Dandurand said in a statement.
- AMENDMENT HAPPY: State Sen. John Loudon held a press conference earlier this week to announce a ballot initiative for a constitutional amendment to protect "the secret ballot." If at first you don't succeed . . .
- BOND BACKS ISRAEL: Fresh back from his trip from Israel, Sen. Kit Bond is defending the country's recent relentless assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He wants the U.S. to provide Israel with an anti-missile defense system. "Israel has every right to defend its borders, and protect its people," said Bond. "With their unprovoked attacks on Israel, Hamas is demonstrating their true commitment is violence, not peace."
- KEY NIXON APPOINTMENT: Governor-elect Jay Nixon appointed St. Louis health care official Ronald Levy to be his Director of Social Services. Nixon said Levy would begin transforming Missouri's health care system by helping to increase access for children. The 58-year-old Levy was the chief executive of SSM Health Care in St. Louis before retiring last year. Levy's appointment requires Senate approval.
- SPEAKING OF HEALTH CARE: The Missouri Foundation for Health is urging lawmakers not to help make up a projected $340 million dollars shortfall by cutting Medicaid reimbursements. The group says it will be tempting to make up money there, but that lawmakers should resist. "They would be strongly cautioned against doing so, as it will reduce access to health care services for lower-income Missourians, increase inefficiencies in the delivery of care . . ." said MFH president Dr. James Kimmey.
- BLUNT GETS (ANOTHER) JOB: The auto board thing just sounded odd to people. Downright strange. Now, outgoing Governor Matt Blunt says he'll be a senior adviser to a private equity firm in Massachusetts (A Romney connection?). Blunt is signing on with Solamere Capital on January 13th. The release says Blunt will "help evaluate opportunities for Solamere, while also helping to grow its investments and portfolio companies." The Notebook wishes the Gov. the best of luck in his new non-political endeavor. He'll need it to help "grow" anything in this economy.
- NIXON'S CHALLENGE: You may have noticed Nixon's Challenge hasn't been updated since I've been on holiday. We'll have a fresh batch of entries for you tomorrow on our political page at ky3.com.
- BLOG MOVE: Oh, and about that blog move we told you about a few weeks ago. It's still likely to happen, but after some smart suggestions and feedback from you, we're still working out the exact software to make our transition as blog-worthy as possible.
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Power of Blogging
In November's Atlantic Monthy, Andrew Sullivan explains why blogging is swiftly gaining a superior influence in our super-saturated media culture, while altogether heralding a new "golden era for journalism."Here are some of his most compelling reasons why, mixed with my observations:
1. Hyperlinks make bloggers immediately accountable and give readers an instantaneous way of checking references and sources that continue to multiply. Original quotes and facts can be effortlessly checked and verified. Just a click away.
2. Blogging takes place, not daily, but hourly. A columnist can ignore or duck a subject. A reporter must wait until every source is confirmed. The newscast must wait until noon or 5 p.m. or 10 p.m. A novelist can spend months or years, pontificating, revising. The blogging deadline is always and now. It is "free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud."
3. A blog, no matter how well reported, is personal. It's a news diary that's immediately public. An utmost serious thought and a attempt at levity can be posted just minutes between each other. Inevitably, no matter how hard you try not to, you end up writing about yourself. For every person that has a blog, that person becomes "part" of the news.
4. The responses to blogs (known as commenters) are often "more brutal than editors," more picky than copy editors, "and more emotionally unstable than any colleague." "The feedback is instant, personal, and brutal." Unlike newspapers and television stories, self-corrections are made in the same place and the same format as the original screwup. If you don't acknowledge a mistake, you are hounded by commenters, demeaned by colleagues, ridiculed on other blogs. It's the most accountable format of journalism today.
5. A blog is not a publications. Think of if as a broadcast. "If it stops moving, it dies."
6. Some commenters and e-mails, unsurprisingly, know more about the particular subject than the blogger does. They are armed with their own links, facts, resources and often challenge the blogger's thinking and maybe even change it. Possibly within a span of hours. On the weekend. In the middle of the night.
7. "You can't have blogger's block. You have to express yourself now, while your emotions roil, while your temper flares, while your humor lasts." This is why blogging matters. It's the rich personality that stands out. The longer you pause or wait to post, the more you thoughts will be diluted, and influenced by the other places you click.
8. A blog's readership is intensely personal. Keep a blog long enough, and you get regular e-mailers. These are those who go beyond the comment section, to e-mail you personally, sometimes affectionately, other times respectfully to tell you why you are wrong. The tradition reporting method involves a reporter searching for new sources. A blogger splashes a new subject on his page and dares those to come to him. Not all the information is good information. But you might be surprised how many stories are generated from reaction to a line in a blog post.
9. "People have a voice for radio and a face for television. For blogging, they have a sensibility."
10. While there are no shortage of strictly partisan blogs, linkage helps bring single-minded politicos to other sites that hold views they don't agree with. When FiredUp slams some journalist's work, the writers often link to the piece directly so you can view it for yourself. "Perhaps the nastiest thing one can do to a fellow blogger is to rip him apart and fail to provide a link."
11. A "blogroll" is an indicator of a blogger's respect. Who he or she respects enough to keep in their galaxy. Add everyone or even too many, and the impact of your "roll" is diluted.
12. While the blog is increasingly influential, there is still nothing like reading a well-semblanced, synthesizing, thoroughly reported piece. (Such as Sullivan's essay is.) "The triumphalist notion that blogging should somehow replace traditional writing is as foolish as it is pernicious . . . Blogging's gifts to our discourse make the skills of a good traditional writer more valuable, not less. The torrent of blogospheric insights, ideas and arguments places a greater premium on the person who can finally make sense of it all, turning into something more solid, and lasting and rewarding." And while staring at a computer, zipping around links is convenient. There's still nothing like reading a crumpled up newspaper or magazine cuddled up on the couch.
3. A blog, no matter how well reported, is personal. It's a news diary that's immediately public. An utmost serious thought and a attempt at levity can be posted just minutes between each other. Inevitably, no matter how hard you try not to, you end up writing about yourself. For every person that has a blog, that person becomes "part" of the news.
4. The responses to blogs (known as commenters) are often "more brutal than editors," more picky than copy editors, "and more emotionally unstable than any colleague." "The feedback is instant, personal, and brutal." Unlike newspapers and television stories, self-corrections are made in the same place and the same format as the original screwup. If you don't acknowledge a mistake, you are hounded by commenters, demeaned by colleagues, ridiculed on other blogs. It's the most accountable format of journalism today.
5. A blog is not a publications. Think of if as a broadcast. "If it stops moving, it dies."
6. Some commenters and e-mails, unsurprisingly, know more about the particular subject than the blogger does. They are armed with their own links, facts, resources and often challenge the blogger's thinking and maybe even change it. Possibly within a span of hours. On the weekend. In the middle of the night.
7. "You can't have blogger's block. You have to express yourself now, while your emotions roil, while your temper flares, while your humor lasts." This is why blogging matters. It's the rich personality that stands out. The longer you pause or wait to post, the more you thoughts will be diluted, and influenced by the other places you click.
8. A blog's readership is intensely personal. Keep a blog long enough, and you get regular e-mailers. These are those who go beyond the comment section, to e-mail you personally, sometimes affectionately, other times respectfully to tell you why you are wrong. The tradition reporting method involves a reporter searching for new sources. A blogger splashes a new subject on his page and dares those to come to him. Not all the information is good information. But you might be surprised how many stories are generated from reaction to a line in a blog post.
9. "People have a voice for radio and a face for television. For blogging, they have a sensibility."
10. While there are no shortage of strictly partisan blogs, linkage helps bring single-minded politicos to other sites that hold views they don't agree with. When FiredUp slams some journalist's work, the writers often link to the piece directly so you can view it for yourself. "Perhaps the nastiest thing one can do to a fellow blogger is to rip him apart and fail to provide a link."
11. A "blogroll" is an indicator of a blogger's respect. Who he or she respects enough to keep in their galaxy. Add everyone or even too many, and the impact of your "roll" is diluted.
12. While the blog is increasingly influential, there is still nothing like reading a well-semblanced, synthesizing, thoroughly reported piece. (Such as Sullivan's essay is.) "The triumphalist notion that blogging should somehow replace traditional writing is as foolish as it is pernicious . . . Blogging's gifts to our discourse make the skills of a good traditional writer more valuable, not less. The torrent of blogospheric insights, ideas and arguments places a greater premium on the person who can finally make sense of it all, turning into something more solid, and lasting and rewarding." And while staring at a computer, zipping around links is convenient. There's still nothing like reading a crumpled up newspaper or magazine cuddled up on the couch.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Our Move Has Begun
A few housekeeping notes to keep our loyal readers in the loop about:
1) Our new online series "Nixon's Challenge" continues at KY3.com. Be sure to check it out HERE. Our latest entry is from Gwen Beebe of Integrity Home Care. We plan to add a new entry daily through Jay Nixon's inauguration. But we also want and need your participation. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts, e-mail me at dcatanese@ky3.com.
2) "Transitioning" seems to be the thing to do right now, and we at the KY3 Political Notebook are doing it as well. We are in the midst of moving the Notebook to our new home on our TV Internet home of ky3.com. This move is weeks in the making, and I can assure you it is not occurring without questions, modifications, much attention to every detail --- and, admittedly, a bit of trepidation.
The move is a bit bittersweet for me. Blogger has been good to us, allowed us to flourish and enhanced our creativity. But we believe that moving the Notebook to ky3.com will be beneficial for both sides. To be frank, my bosses would like to see the hits you grant us on their home site. And I would like to branch our political reporting out to a wider community.
This move won't be instant, but should happen soon. We're still working with the sight, getting comfortable with the technology and bells and whistles. We'll do some tests and trials before we completely move over for good. It will be a work in progress, and just as this blog was, the new, revamped Notebook will be enhanced as we move along.
Click HERE to see where the new home of the KY3 Political Notebook will be. (The actual address will be www.ky3.com/news/political.) Then, let us know what you think, and leave your advice. And keep coming back here for the meantime. We'll let you know when the move is permanent.
Most importantly, thanks for your continued loyal readership. If you weren't coming back so often in growing numbers from all corners of the state and beyond, the guys who sign my paycheck probably wouldn't interested in moving us in the first place.
1) Our new online series "Nixon's Challenge" continues at KY3.com. Be sure to check it out HERE. Our latest entry is from Gwen Beebe of Integrity Home Care. We plan to add a new entry daily through Jay Nixon's inauguration. But we also want and need your participation. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts, e-mail me at dcatanese@ky3.com.
2) "Transitioning" seems to be the thing to do right now, and we at the KY3 Political Notebook are doing it as well. We are in the midst of moving the Notebook to our new home on our TV Internet home of ky3.com. This move is weeks in the making, and I can assure you it is not occurring without questions, modifications, much attention to every detail --- and, admittedly, a bit of trepidation.
The move is a bit bittersweet for me. Blogger has been good to us, allowed us to flourish and enhanced our creativity. But we believe that moving the Notebook to ky3.com will be beneficial for both sides. To be frank, my bosses would like to see the hits you grant us on their home site. And I would like to branch our political reporting out to a wider community.
This move won't be instant, but should happen soon. We're still working with the sight, getting comfortable with the technology and bells and whistles. We'll do some tests and trials before we completely move over for good. It will be a work in progress, and just as this blog was, the new, revamped Notebook will be enhanced as we move along.
Click HERE to see where the new home of the KY3 Political Notebook will be. (The actual address will be www.ky3.com/news/political.) Then, let us know what you think, and leave your advice. And keep coming back here for the meantime. We'll let you know when the move is permanent.
Most importantly, thanks for your continued loyal readership. If you weren't coming back so often in growing numbers from all corners of the state and beyond, the guys who sign my paycheck probably wouldn't interested in moving us in the first place.
Friday, December 05, 2008
Pardon The Interruption
From about 3 p.m. Thursday to early this morning, technical difficulties with Blogger shut the KY3 Political Notebook site down.
We did lose a couple posts in progress. And in the blogga' news cycle, a few hours can feel like a few weeks. Regardless, we believe whatever caused the problem has been resolved.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
We did lose a couple posts in progress. And in the blogga' news cycle, a few hours can feel like a few weeks. Regardless, we believe whatever caused the problem has been resolved.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
FEEDJIT
With a busy election last week, we failed to point out a new feature on the KY3 Political Notebook that appears down the page in the right column.
It's called FEEDJIT, and it tracks who's reading the blog, the location of the reader and how they got here --- all in real time. It helps us better gauge our readership, how it comes and goes, and where it's growing. (And monitoring it is kind of addicting.) Check it out at your leisure.
My thanks to KSPR News Director, Brad Belote, for finding it.
It's called FEEDJIT, and it tracks who's reading the blog, the location of the reader and how they got here --- all in real time. It helps us better gauge our readership, how it comes and goes, and where it's growing. (And monitoring it is kind of addicting.) Check it out at your leisure.
My thanks to KSPR News Director, Brad Belote, for finding it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
New Blog Feature
As you'll see, the upper right hand corner of our site now allows you to sign up for e-mail updates from the KY3 Political Notebook.
KSPR News Director and blog-partner Brad Belote added the feature after discussing ways to better serve our regular readers.
The new feature should allow you to sign up and receive updates from The Notebook to your e-mail, Twitter, AIM, Microsoft Messenger, Yahoo Messenger or Skype. From Brad's test, you should receive updates within 20 minutes of my postings.
Let us know how it works out for you.
KSPR News Director and blog-partner Brad Belote added the feature after discussing ways to better serve our regular readers.
The new feature should allow you to sign up and receive updates from The Notebook to your e-mail, Twitter, AIM, Microsoft Messenger, Yahoo Messenger or Skype. From Brad's test, you should receive updates within 20 minutes of my postings.
Let us know how it works out for you.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Study: More Get Political News Online
WEB GETS SLIGHTLY HIGHER MARKS FOR OBJECTIVITY
A Pew Research Center study shows Americans are turning increasingly to online sources for election coverage.
April's Atlantic Monthly reports on a study predicting the obvious -- a broader role for the Internet in Campaign 2008.
Inside the numbers reveal that while television remains king of political news, the percentage of people who say they get most of their news about the election from TV dropped from 68% in 2004 to 60% in late 2007. Those who reported they turn primarily to the Internet for news about the presidential candidates more than doubled, from 6 percent in 2004 to 14% in late '07.
Atlantic reports that the Internet also gets slightly higher marks for objectivity. 45% of people who get their news online believe that Republican and Democratic views get roughly equal attention on websites and blogs, whereas 41% of Americans feel the same way about general media coverage of the campaigns.
Still, it looks like a majority of web-users go to the same sites for their political news with MSNBC, CNN and Yahoo News sites topping the list.
April's Atlantic Monthly reports on a study predicting the obvious -- a broader role for the Internet in Campaign 2008.
Inside the numbers reveal that while television remains king of political news, the percentage of people who say they get most of their news about the election from TV dropped from 68% in 2004 to 60% in late 2007. Those who reported they turn primarily to the Internet for news about the presidential candidates more than doubled, from 6 percent in 2004 to 14% in late '07.
Atlantic reports that the Internet also gets slightly higher marks for objectivity. 45% of people who get their news online believe that Republican and Democratic views get roughly equal attention on websites and blogs, whereas 41% of Americans feel the same way about general media coverage of the campaigns.
Still, it looks like a majority of web-users go to the same sites for their political news with MSNBC, CNN and Yahoo News sites topping the list.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Winner of 2 Blogaronis
My thanks to all who voted for the KY3 Political Notebook for its two 2008 Blogaronis.
We were fortunate enough to win in the categories of Best News Blog and Best Political Blog.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to grace the red carpet for the ceremony. Props to Larry Litle for making it all happen, and congrats to all the big winners.
Here's to a another great year of productive blogging!
We were fortunate enough to win in the categories of Best News Blog and Best Political Blog.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to grace the red carpet for the ceremony. Props to Larry Litle for making it all happen, and congrats to all the big winners.
Here's to a another great year of productive blogging!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
To MoPolitics.Net, With Love
Dear MissouriPolitics.Net,
We think your site is cool. It's in our rundown to check-out each day. You are edgy, and for that, much respect.
So why all the blog-hatin'?
We didn't copy your live blogging format. Never claimed to live-blog the debates cuz we got a day job (it's a TV thing.)
We're all about a good bloggin' competition, but can't we do it without the trash talk?
C'mon, my Jackson Days report wasn't that bad! I know a lot of bloggers are, but I'm doing this for free. And for a lazy, superficial TV guy that's sayin' something. So cut me a break -- or a check?
Yeah, you can drop the F-bomb. And we can't. So you've got that.
But otherwise, we're playing the same game, right?
So, for now on, only trash me, if you link to me -- repeatedly.
That, at least, helps all of us.
With Love,
KY3 Political Notebook
We think your site is cool. It's in our rundown to check-out each day. You are edgy, and for that, much respect.
So why all the blog-hatin'?
We didn't copy your live blogging format. Never claimed to live-blog the debates cuz we got a day job (it's a TV thing.)
We're all about a good bloggin' competition, but can't we do it without the trash talk?
C'mon, my Jackson Days report wasn't that bad! I know a lot of bloggers are, but I'm doing this for free. And for a lazy, superficial TV guy that's sayin' something. So cut me a break -- or a check?
Yeah, you can drop the F-bomb. And we can't. So you've got that.
But otherwise, we're playing the same game, right?
So, for now on, only trash me, if you link to me -- repeatedly.
That, at least, helps all of us.
With Love,
KY3 Political Notebook
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