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Remains of the Day, 10-03-07
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1. I’m not sure I’d have picked the name Dipnote for a new blog from the State Department (a play on diplomat no doubt), but then, Wide Open was not a top choice for me either. They’re employing two bloggers – but I use those terms loosely – both bloggers and employing. I don’t know any of the specs beyond what’s in the WaPo article.
2. I’ve written before about Deborah Solomon and how, even though I love reading her Q & As in the NYT Magazine, I’ve had some trouble with them. Well, seems I’m not the only one with troubles about her.
3. Now, some major info about foster care came out today and I just could not find the time to give it its due. I’m certain that the papers will be covered with coverage of it, but here are some resources and blurbs for the late night owls:
a. Children’s Rights came out today with “the first-ever nationwide, state-by-state calculation of the real cost of supporting children in foster care.”
b. Go to this map and click on whichever state you’d like to study.
c. Ohio did ABYSMALLY. Read more here at Capital Blog (who gets the hattip about the report) or read the pdfs from the map.
4. “It’s a Conversation, Stupid: Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, UGC and Journalism” I didn’t attend, but here’s an interesting summation and reflection on it about and by those who did. Amy Gahran writes about the same event here.
5. What’s it meant to have Creative Commons exist? PJNet’s Leonard Witt writes about Lawrence Lessig‘s review of its existence here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:09 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Remains of the Day | Comments Off
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50 Most Powerful Women
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In money and business. Not politics. From Fortune. Who does the politics one?
Haven’t had time to look for the Ohioans yet.
Mag says that the “buddy act” is kicking in. I hope they’re right because it was barely two years ago when Wendy Hoke wrote about how not buddy-buddy women in the workplace were. (The piece is probably not in the short-term archives since it’s from October 2005, but you can read more about the book Wendy profiled here.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:39 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Business, Women | 2 Comments
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I wasn’t at today’s Columbus mayoral debate between Republican candidate Bill Todd and incumbent Democratic mayor, Michael Colemen, so I can’t say for sure, but here’s what the Columbus Dispatch’s The Daily Briefing is reporting in terms of the opponents throwing zingers:
…Democrat Michael B. Coleman and Republican Bill Todd got off a few good lines in the course of their face-to-face encounter at the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe.
Todd, after Coleman bragged about the city bucking Ohio’s job-loss statistics: “We’re setting the bar pretty low comparing ourselves to Youngstown and Toledo.”
Eek. I guess Todd doesn’t make the rounds of blogs like I will shout Youngstown or Youngstown Pride or Thurber’s Thoughts (in Toledo), who posted today about how highly regarded Toledo is in this week’s Newseek. Or Brewed Fresh Daily which regularly includes positive news about Youngstown’s growth and innovation.
Nothing like trying to make your town look good while putting down others in the state.
Cross-posted at Wide Open.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:04 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Elections, Ohio, Politics | Comments Off
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Seven police hear Gotbaum scream, die; were any women? mothers? trained in mental health?
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It’s the very last line of this New York Daily News story:
Cops said Gotbaum was traveling alone and could not explain why she was in Phoenix or what prompted her anger. She was charged with disorderly conduct.
Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said Gotbaum kept screaming after she was placed in the holding cell, until cops realized she had been silent for several minutes and found her unresponsive. The county medical examiner has not determined a cause of death.
“The longest she was alone was five or 10 minutes,” Hill said.
She was handcuffed behind her back, Hill said.
But he couldn’t immediately explain why a distressed woman was left alone in handcuffs while seven police officers were in the security office.
That’s procedure?
That Carol Ann Gotbaum’s mother-in-law is a pubic advocate is beyond irony.
Finally, read this account. If you can’t related to what she was experiencing, count yourself lucky. I can also completely understand the validity of the last line there, “Family members were racked with guilt for letting her travel alone, sources said.”
Sigh. Tragic, tragic, tragic.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:26 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Media, Mental health, Parenting, Women | 4 Comments
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New Gallup poll: We want out
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According to Gallup, when it comes to Bush’s plans versus the Democrats plans regarding troop withdrawal from Iraq:
- Only 13% of Americans oppose both plans, meaning that the vast majority of Americans agree with at least one of these two plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. [emphasis mine]
- Nearly half of Americans say they favor both plans.
- Twenty percent favor only the Petraeus-Bush plan.
- Seventeen percent favor only the Democrats’ plan.
The poll was taken between 9/24 and 9/27. Read the rest here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:25 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Military | Comments Off
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Save jouralism – become a blogger
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I could not have written a better post than this one by Howard Owens:
The new rules of the game are:
* The user is in control. They decided what, when, why, where and how to consume media.
* Users aren’t interested in our deadlines and desire to make sure we have the full story before publishing what we know. They want to know what we know when we know it. They want their news now.
* People want to participate. They want to talk back. They want to add to our stories, correct us and just spout off as need be with their own opinions.We have decades and decades invested in doing things based on old rules. Now, the rules have changed, and newsrooms need to change as well. We need new attitudes and new cultures. This will only happen if individual journalists put forward the effort to change their minds about what their jobs are and how they do them
Here are twelve things journalist can do to help us recreate journalism for the 21st Century.
* Become a blogger. By this, I don’t necessarily mean “start a blog,” but that is never a bad idea. More importantly, become an avid blog reader. Blogs should be a daily routine for every dedicated journalist. They should read every blog related to their beats. They should read blogs about their own interests and hobbies. They should read blogs about their profession. To get blogging is to get how things have changed.
Read his post for the other eleven things.
Makes this post sound prophetic, IMO.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:04 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Politics | 10 Comments
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Ohio rep. Barrett’s civic lesson includes nude woman
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From the can’t make this up department, courtesy of NewsNet5:
A state politician who was giving a lecture to high school students inserted a data memory stick into a computer and the projected image of nude woman appeared on a screen, the state highway patrol said.
The memory stick, along with a school computer used Tuesday by state Rep. Matthew Barrett, were taken into custody and were being examined, said patrol spokesman Lt. Tony Bradshaw.
What did they find?
Barrett, who was giving a civics presentation to about 20 students in a senior government class at Norwalk High School in northern Ohio, said school’s technology director looked at the memory stick and determined that it had a directory of nude images.
“I have no idea where these came from,” said Barrett, a Democrat from Amherst in northeast Ohio.
Barrett said there were a few snickers from students when the image of a topless woman appeared on the screen. He then immediately pulled the memory stick out of the computer.
Oh yeah.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:29 am October 3rd, 2007 in Government, Ohio, Scandal, Statehouse | 6 Comments
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Dick Celeste leads the Carnival of Ohio Politics #85
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The Carnival of Ohio Politics #85 is now posted and Ben of Keeler Political Reporter did a great job. The picture of former Ohio Gov. Dick Celeste is particularly…well, as most carnivals are – amusing?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:25 am October 3rd, 2007 in Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | 2 Comments
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Most recent posts at Wide Open:
Kucinich challenged (lots of good comments there) and dumped (h/t Left of Ohio)
Following the Ohio legislature’s agenda
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:21 am October 3rd, 2007 in Blogging, Politics | Comments Off
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