Loading ...We’ve got a little blog we put together filled with videos, articles and photos taken during the Homebuilder Blitz to build a Habitat for Humanity house within one week. Check it out!
Photographer Jon Helgason and videographer Adam Maser have been going out there each day to get updates on the progress. From the looks of [...]
I came across some spiffy software last week called Cover It Live. It’s a liveblogging thing that would allow journos to give a unique perspective to certain events such as state basketball, or political debates, or maybe even fiery city council meetings. I’m hoping to introduce the tool to the newsroom at some point because [...]
How about that quickie storm this morning eh?
I shot that video on my way to work this morning for use in our newscast this morning. And then I went home for lunch and was gobsmacked at the crystal clear blue skies and definite lack of storm. I don’t get a chance to peep out the [...]
This week has been a bit of a battle in trying to ensure the website is loaded each night. The machine we use to do this keep corrupting the database and crashing. Since the copy desk takes care of loading the site, they don’t know how to fix that sort of thing and so it [...]
It’s been a slow news day, at least locally. Fortunately, we have nothing like the Britney Spears trainwreck escapades to keep the place jumping. Instead we have local news for you know, the locals. Our farm community is probably more interested in predictions for the ag market this year than whether Ms. Spears showed up [...]
How about that Surprise!Snow out there this morning? Last I checked, my weather updates said 20% chance of the white stuff. Turned out to be a 20% chance, 80% big fat lie.
But I didn’t come here to whinge about the snow that fell *just* after the last few batches had melted enough to make the [...]
The problem has been solved. It was a hung process on the server causing all this angst. Thanks for everyone’s patience while we fixed it. Today’s stories have been loaded now and hopefully we won’t have this issue tonight
I got a call in the middle of the night and it was the copy desk telling me they were having problems loading the website. They tell me where they are having problems and at first it sounded like an easy fix. So I walked them through what should be done and… it didn’t work.
I [...]
Here it is, a new year and new changes will be happening to us in the coming year as we transition to our new company. I just want to give fair warning that there could be some bumps in the road as we learn new tools and rebuild our website using those tools.
One of the [...]
Be sure to watch the paper this weekend and over New Year’s. We’ll be including each reporter’s top 10 stories for 2007 as well as the top 10 national and state stories. new Year’s eve we will announce The Independent’s Woman of the Year and Man of the Year will be announced on New Year’s [...]