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30
Jan 18

The day’s efforts and progress

Yes, we love technology. We still love technology, always and forever.

Chris Pollone, who you’ll see on all your quality NBC newscasts across the country, joined our little podcast once more to talk about a big moment in the communication sector. We’re going 5G and that phrase is going on to take a ride on the hype train. Why, one day, we’ll look back at this message, and that you read it over LTE or wifi and have a great big laugh. And just think about what it will do for your industry, dear reader. It could do a lot. Pollone tells us more:

On the podcast we have now gotten the good news that the show has been picked up for syndication at Google Play. And you can also find the show among the many other quality programs on Stitcher, as well. Next, iTunes, then, if I survive that bit of silliness, the world!

But, tonight, the television studio, where I have studios making television shows that cover and discuss things generally related to news. I’m sure the online versions will be live tomorrow, and I can share them with you. Watch, as they say, this space.

Meantime, here are four more photos I took this weekend, including this guy, a peregrine falcon, which is the fastest species on the planet:

It was a lovely little sunset on Saturday, clearly, which is why I’m goosing this well into the next week.

I may have a few more pictures for tomorrow too. Then we can get to some really interesting stuff around here, he said, hoping that would be a tease sufficient to bring you back. So do come back.

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29
Jan 18

A podcast, a video and 11 photos in between

There’s a lot here, owing to catching up from a full weekend. And it doesn’t at all get into the three-hour tin whistle concert we performed on Saturday. There’s a lot here.

We’re all from somewhere is the general theme of the show we produced today. It’s about a reporter who is using public records to look up the immigration histories of people who are lately very much anti-immigration. But most of us have family that started somewhere else. My old friend and former co-worker Justin Thurman of the USA Today Network told us about the story:

What’s funny is that Justin and his wife, when they tell me stories about their families, they sound exactly like my family. Just good old fashioned country folks, salt of the earth types. So much so that I have made a joke with them that we will one day find out we are related. And then as I learned more about my family history, it turns out that at one point my family was just a town or two over from theirs.

My family has some English and some Dutch and a few other things. One branch can be traced back to the War of the Roses, another apparently back to the Mayflower and still another group seems to know its way back to the 16th century. We’re all from somewhere.

Here are some photos I took of a walk we took yesterday.

A duck out at a frozen Monroe Lake:

Ice on scrubby brush:

I like photos of people at a distance, in silhouette. Sometimes the angles are such that you can’t see what they are doing, and so I wonder. I wonder what they are thinking, where they were before they got there, and where they might be heading after this. And I wonder about my wondering from a distance:

You don’t often see fog hang around until afternoon on a sunny day:

And then the sun turns the frost to droplets:

I think the birds like that a bit better. Warmer feet:

Here’s a picture of a vine holding a stick:

And a video I made:

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25
Jan 18

Sometimes you dress up for news, I guess

You can take a tie off with one hand. It is an art and has, and demands, a certain flourish. And if you do this in front of a cat, she’s going to want to play with it. It is a cat’s way: chase the moving silk thing the hooman puts on some days. And if she plays with it, that’s fine, until she produces her claws. And then you have to do something else. So I dressed her.

We have the best dressed cat in town, I’m sure.

This afternoon I was joined on the show by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. We talked about some of his students work, which is impressive. You can hear about it right here:

You can also find other episodes of The Best Story I’ve Heard Today on its new host site, Podbean. All of the current run have been transferred there and now I have to see about getting this thing syndicated in a few different places. After that: advertising. (Maybe?)

We’ve talked, on that show, a few times about the Larry Nassar trial. Here’s a story worth reading, it offers its own masterclass on interviews in reporting:

I saw the confident Larry Nassar, buoyed by a reputation as a caring miracle-worker. I saw the charismatic doctor, a man with a legion of adoring supporters. I saw the smooth Nassar, a master manipulater (sic) who had convinced police and university officials that earlier complaints were misunderstandings — and went on molesting young girls.

At times in the about 30 minutes we were together, he came off almost arrogant. That was particularly true as he tried to convince me the “misunderstanding” was the result of the women’s ignorance of his sophisticated medical work. His demeanor didn’t come as a surprise. Nassar was revered in gymnastics and highly regarded internationally as a sports medicine physician.

But at other times, I picked up a different vibe. When we first met, Nassar essentially pleaded that we not write a story. He even indicated he could provide dirt on USA Gymnastics officials. As we talked, particularly when he wasn’t directing the conversation, Nassar came off as much more socially awkward. Faced with a question, he would stammer. His eyes fluttered. They’re the kind of nonverbal cues I look for during contentious interviews.

This young woman is pretty incredible:

And, as the Indy Star reported, it started with an email.

Some more tweets:

And some good news from Las Vegas:

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IU / photo / podcast / Wednesday — Comments Off on A national news reporter joins our little program
24
Jan 18

A national news reporter joins our little program

Sometimes I have to give a tour of our building and so I talk about the journalism and the sports media and the research area and all of our cool classroom technology and so on. And then sometimes there’s a great flier up. Like this one which is up this week, that would let me tell someone more about the video game programs:

Come to college! Play games!

I wonder how hard a sell that on parents. But once they get here, they have a really great setup, and some incredibly talented peers. Someone is down in the game lab as I’m writing this and they’re making some impossibly cool game. It’s another one of those worlds that most of us don’t understand. Then they’ll launch the beginning of a career or create another gaming success and all of us will think “Well why didn’t I come up with that?” while we download it or go buy it or whatever you do your video game purchases these days.

They should come up with a cool little easter egg to drop in the background shots, so we all know when we run across an IU developer.

NBC correspondent Chris Pollone joined the podcast today. He’s a good get, and this is a pretty great story he’s talking about. A reporter found, perhaps, what is thought to be the last ship to deliver slaves into the United States.

Chris will be back on the show next week, too. And tomorrow, we may really hit the big time. And I have now shifted all of the latest episodes to Podbean for hosting purposes. It just seemed a good time to up the game a little bit. Now I just need to get the thing syndicated to streaming sites.

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IU / photo / podcast / Tuesday — Comments Off on We are one famous house
23
Jan 18

We are one famous house

The Yankee and I recorded an episode of my show today. We played it all cool, because it seemed the best approach considering the subject matter. Anyway, the ultimate goal has been reached. We are famous on the Internet:

That’s what we tell Allie, The Black Cat, when we take her picture. She is famous on the Internet:

Of course she’s more famous than both of us put together. Cats and the Internet, after all.

Why, it is entirely possible that the entire agenda of domesticated catdom has been aiming to this moment. Cats knew they should be famous and so they have spent generations buttering us up for the inevitable day that we would create something they could use.

And also, head scratches.

But it begs an important question. They have what they want, now what?

We had a speaker in the building tonight. I spent the night going from the studio to the commons listening to television shows our news crew were producing and Jamie Kalven, who has won a Polk and a Ridenhour Courage award.

And here’s the reason, you should always take the time to listen to people who are passionate about their subject matter. Kalven has that, in spades, for his journalism and what it means to our communities. And so he talked about the importance of what journalism students should set out to do. Truth, authority, power, the man, all of that remains.

“The danger,” he was saying as I took this picture near the end of his visit, “is that we make concessions of our own freedom.”

This is the story Jamie Kalven was talking about.

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