A whole lot of thoughts on a whole lot of things
June 18, 2010
Last week I got to speak at one of the most interesting media conferences I’ve ever been to: the Radio Ink Convergence conference, held on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. The speakers were great and I took a ton of notes.
Here is a link to the story written about my presentation at the conference.
Before the conference, I was interviewed by Radio Ink magazine as a precede to the conference. It was different because it was an audio interview that was transcribed. I say that it was different because when I’m interviewed now, it seems like it’s usually …
Tracking traffic with balls
May 6, 2010
Whenever groups visit the Greenspun Newsroom or whenever we give a presentation about our operation, especially to other media folks, one of the things that fascinates people is what we call the “wall of balls.”
It’s really nothing more than a video monitor that shows live traffic to LasVegasSun.com. It looks like this:
The system was basically implemented and tweaked by one of our team’s programmers, Tim Thiele.
We have one of these monitors at three different locations in our newsroom.
It basically works like this: A ball falling from the top left to right represents a request to our …
The Las Vegas Sun on an iPad and my thoughts on Apple’s latest little fruit
April 21, 2010
Not that it is a huge surprise to anyone, but earlier this month I was up-and-at-em first thing on the Saturday morning when iPads were available for sale.
It’s not much different from the other photos from that day, but here’s what the scene looked like at the Apple store at Las Vegas’ Town Square:
(Sidenote in regards to the above picture: I’ve noticed people often are surprised when Las Vegas has something that all other big cities have … like an Apple store. It sometimes feels like they think we only have mega-resorts and slot machines, forgetting that nearly 2 …
Internships at the Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Newsroom
March 30, 2010
This is basically a re-post of a re-post that I’ve posted for the last couple of years. The reason for all of this repetition is simple: We’re looking for a few talented interns to join our team at the Greenspun Newsroom for the summer and even through next spring.
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The Las Vegas Sun and the converged newsroom at Greenspun Media Group are looking for interns who want to get real-world, practical experience with coverage of local news and business, and entertainment (yes, that very well could mean The Strip, the celebrity side of Las Vegas and our city’s crazy club scene).
What …
Commode convergence
March 11, 2010
Sometime in the future, I’ll probably look back at this post and wonder what I was thinking when I wrote it, and maybe even regret that it’s in my blog’s archives, but who cares?
Live a little. 
Big-time convergence doesn’t have to be reserved for just big-time stories. (If you’d like to see examples of convergence/multimedia journalism that will warm the cockles of your favorite journalism professor’s heart, there is definitely some here.)
A few weeks ago in one of our editorial meetings for lasvegasweekly.com, our nightlife reporter — Deanna Rilling — pitched a story on the extravagant women’s bathroom …
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