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I travelled downtown Chicago today to hand-deliver my visa application to the Indian Consulate so that I may visit Hyderabad in a couple weeks and I had a couple of hours to kill before catching the Metra train back to Naperville.
I walked around Grant Park (See my annotated map above) (and I do mean AROUND as there was no ordinary privilege to pass through as a pedestrian today) with all the cops and fencing up already for the Obama Presidential Rally. That is the official name today of this venue formerly known as Grant Park. TV satellite trucks have long queued up on Columbus Drive and the ticketed and non-ticketed patron areas are clearly defined and defended.
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OK. Now you can say you were there.
You could watch the Grant Park rally live on TV or you can watch it live right here.
The Brown Bag blogger aggregated into pol coverage at SunTimes.com takes a shot a blog item onNYTIMES.com.
Is The NYT Effing Kidding With This Grant Park Election Night Preview?
Now, that’s a media push back. Kind of like shoving an interloper to “Get off my lawn!” but in a Chicago Way.
Continue reading ‘Live video from Grant Park - courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times’
Slide from Andrew DeVigal’s SND session in Las Vegas. Andrew is the multimedia editor of The New York Times.
Continue reading ‘SND Las Vegas report: Embracing the social narrative’
Robb’s flight plans for fall 2008
I will be in Las Vegas next week directing a team of student journalists who will be filing multimedia reports from the APME SND congress.
September and October will have my world in constant motion. These are the next scheduled seminars on my calendar.
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Camp Video Journalism Chicago
September 24, 25, 26
Chicago Sun-Times
Early-bird registration is limited and ends August 20. Learn more.
Visual Editors presents a September video journalism training seminar.
A three-day Camp VJ workshop for reporters carrying video cameras. Continue reading ‘Camp VJ Chicago (Newspaper video workshop)’
Chicago Tribune editor quits her job today - and I found out through Twitter.
My dear friend Charles Apple does not Tweet on Twitter but he is somewhat surprised by all of the small talk taking place on the Internet - Who has time to Tweet, update your FB status and do all of the other things you are supposed to do?
I mean that is how I was alerted today that Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski was suddenly quitting the paper.
It just takes a few thumb clicks to insta-publish a breaking alert like this. that’s the power of microblogging. It’s instant.
The good news that some of this talk can be automated and since it is small talk - it can be done with your mobile while you are stuck in a boring meeting or sitting on a bus somewhere. So microblogging gives you the option to use time you were already wasting away.
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