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  • Tech gifts not to miss: screens, screens everywhere!

    Tech gifts not to miss: screens, screens everywhere!

    Ah, my monthly opportunity to use the latest gadgets to promote my graduate program (and Four Peaks TV program). I did two separate segments today with KING 5 (which also syndicates Four Peaks on NWCN every weekend): one for Evening Magazine, the other with my friend Margaret Larson for New Day Northwest. You can watch…

  • Time shift: why I walk to work, listen to records and carry a camera

    Time shift: why I walk to work, listen to records and carry a camera

    I’ve just pulled out my vinyl copy of Paul Simon’s 1986 album, Graceland — which I purchased in 1986 (“every generation throws a hero up the pop charts”). Over two decades later, I’ve begun spinning it again. It sounds great. I guess the teenage me took pretty good care of this fragile analog media. I…

  • The first (and last?) social media election: online resources and where to watch on second screen

    The first (and last?) social media election: online resources and where to watch on second screen

    After the 2008 election, I hosted a conversation called “The First Digital President.” Barack Obama’s win was partially attributable to his online engagement and fundraising — primarily via a still-novel Facebook platform. But as a German news organization reported today: There are now ten times as many Facebook users and five times as many Twitter…

  • Am I a brand? And is that ok?

    Am I a brand? And is that ok?

    It’s a constant struggle — that balance between bragging/TMI (Too Much Information) and the need to promote our abilities and presence in this chaotic communications ecosystem. We’ve discussed this on several occasions in our “Narrative & Networks in Digital Media” class, driven especially by our reference to Networked: The New Social Operating System. That given…