Update: Membership application accepted.

Submitted an application for the Online News Association today. According to their site:

“The Online News Association was founded in 1999 by several working members of the online press. ONA is open to journalists from around the world who produce news on the Internet and other digital platforms, and to others with an interest in online news”

Seeing that it will be the first professional organization I’ve ever been a part of, I’m pretty excited about that.

Prior to being an actual member, I signed up to be a screener for the 2008 ONA awards. That means I’ll be critiquing some heavy-hitting news Web sites, specifically those entries submitted in the “Investigative Journalism: Large” category. I’m looking forward to learning a few things about integrating site design, user interface and storytelling on the Web.

Winners announced in September. Stay tuned.

Pearl Jam - 06.12.2008 - Tampa, FL - 2

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June 12, 2008 St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Fla. U.S.A.

Support: Kings of Leon

Main Set: Sometimes, Corduroy, Why Go, Severed Hand, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Marker In The Sand, Light Years, Down, Wishlist, Given To Fly, Daughter (Blitzkrieg Bop tag), Even Flow, Present Tense, Insignificance, Better Man, Do The Evolution

Encore 1: Nothingman, Black, Life Wasted, Porch

Encore 2: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (Ed solo), Alive, Yellow Ledbetter (with Star Spangled Banner)

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Saw this sign in a gravel lot near the Port of Tampa, so I had to stop and grab a photo. Spent the rest of the day figuring out how “old” this sign really is, though.

So says Martin Merzer, formerly of the Miami Herald, at the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors multimedia workshop in Tampa this past weekend.

In a session about writing online, Merzer said in an on-demand world, those who can write the news straight, accurate and fast are in demand. Hey now.

Reported on a horrific triple murder in the semi-rural outskirts of Tampa. Authorities charged Edward Covington in the murders of his 26-year-old girlfriend and her two children, ages 2 and 7.

Details were not released, but investigators said the three people and the family dog were mutilated. One person was decapitated. Veteran crime scene technicians called it among the most gruesome scenes they’d ever worked.

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The Modern Journalist is a new blog authored by former Wired reporter and current “Media Informatics” professor Brad King. Smart dude. He’s got great insight and instinct into where journalism is headed next.

More importantly, he’s not asking what went wrong with the business. He’s teaching anyone who will listen how to make it right again. I’m paraphrasing, but King calls the discussions he’s started the “conversation we’ve all wanted to have been waiting for” and it’s attracting programmers, journalists, newspaper managers, academics and all kinds of digital pioneers.

Played around with WordPress and made some changes to the blog. Mostly organizational stuff, like creating new pages up top. I’m still getting the hang of WordPress. I’m a TypePad guy at work.

Huge fan of This American Life. Anyone seen the television show yet? I haven’t, but I’ll bet the formula - extraordinary stories from ordinary people - translates just as well on the television screen as it does on the radio. In fact, I’ve said that newspaper.com’s oughtta pay attention to TAL. There’s lots to be learned about audio storytelling. Get the NPR podcast here.

New(s) doc. Read all about it here. I wonder if anyone’s started the documentary on the rebirth of American journalism yet.