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best of 2008

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Chris Houchens

NOTICE: All the links in this post go to the old blogspot location. If you’d like to read these posts, please browse the best of 2008 tag. Thanks.****************** It’s the end of my fourth year of blogging. It’s also the … Continue reading →

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stories

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Chris Houchens

So over the past two years gas prices rose about $2/gallon from what they were. Supply and demand? That can’t be causing it. The oil companies were sticking it to us. Let’s start a chain email to not buy gas … Continue reading →

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muscle shoals has got the swampers

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Chris Houchens

Back in my radio career, in addition to managing operations for the stations in the group, I also held down several airshifts as a “radio personality”. DJs get sick of songs way before you do. On the CHR formatted station, … Continue reading →

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embedded and right

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Chris Houchens

A NYU journalism student has written an “embedded report” about Quarter lifers / GenY’s outlook on journalism and online media for the PBS Mediashift blog. In the online journalism class that I teach, I find the exact same results as … Continue reading →

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mass media will never win on the web

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Chris Houchens

Or at least they won’t think they’re winning because they’re still using the same yardstick for success that they’ve used for decades. With broadcast and print media, success is measured in numbers with lots of zeroes on the end — … Continue reading →

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