It was a fine, clear day. We’re transitioning from the spring we skipped into the summer that will be with us through September. It only reached the 80s today, but the humidity in the early morning apparently reached 100 percent. I don’t think I was aware you could do that without rain. As if to prove the point, this evening the humidity ticked up to 94 percent. It is warm in the house.
It is so humid that I prepared, hid and drank two bottles of water on my run this evening. It is a shame I only ran the 3.1 miles. For two bottles you should get more distance, you’d think. But not here. Not now.
Did I mention it is warm in the house? Someone will come out later this week to figure that out.
Here’s one of the neater and sweeter stories you’ll see today:
Things to read … because they can’t all be videos.
Child killed in wreck in front of Hampton Cove Elementary One child killed, three others injured. Also hurt was their mother, who was driving. I know the mom, we worked together some time back. She’s a lady with a big family because she has a big heart. Yours can’t help but break for them.
The old faithful pyramid returns, with more action-packed segments, of course. The Pyramid of Journalism Competence: what journalists need to know Poynter’s trusty pyramid remains a great think piece. The problem here, amidst the pyramid’s sub-sections and supporting essays is the suggested “courses that would enrich.” They list 81 courses, ranging from Jazz to Gender Studies to Quantum Physics to actual approaches to journalism. That is a lot of classes, all with merit, I’m sure, but some offering more meaningful insight to journalists than others. It is unclear if they mean college courses or Poynter courses, which are different things. But still, 81.
We are witnessing the birth of the social media press corps:
That’s not a social meet-up. It’s a press corps. And some government departments, incidentally, have gotten pretty explicit about the difference. While DOI billed today’s event as a more or less social meet-up, NASA will issue straight-up “social media credentials” for its Antares rocket launch in June, designed to give popular bloggers, tweeters and Instagrammers the “same access as journalists.”
The NASA application process, which closed Friday, demanded that applicants prove they had a large, respected and unique audience, distinct from traditional media’s. Applicants also had to agree to share images “in real time,” preferably with the #NASASocial hashtag, and make those photos available to NASA to reshare on its own platforms.
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… but all this comes at a time when the traditional press corps — read, the ones who don’t have to “like” a government department on social media or pass some screening of their tweets to score credentials — gets less access to the government than ever.
Some media have become subordinate and co-conspirators in their own demise and you hate that for them.
“Instameet” is a terrible fake word, however.
Nielsen’s Plan to Count TV Viewers Across Screens Faces Obstacles As telecoms and cable providers get closer and closer, this should actually become easier.
TV Ad Dollars Slowly Shifting to Web Video. Now we only have to make all those online ads effective.
Driver assaults bicyclist, police ticket bicyclist:
Cyclist and photojournalist Evan Wilder encountered a road raging driver on R Street. He says the driver tried to force him off the road, caused a collision, then threw his bike into the truck. A police officer later wrote Wilder a ticket while he was in the hospital.
The officer sides with the driver, no big surprise, and gives the cyclist a citation for following too closely. But there is video. Curiously, this isn’t the first tangle Evan Wilder has had with drivers.
What a great move for Kodi: Kodi Burns Hired As Assistant Football Coach. And terrific for Samford, as well. He’s a good guy and success always seems to follow him.
