| January 30, 2005 | What Are We Defining as Journalism? |
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This morning my dad showed me around North Port and the neighboring towns of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, Florida, both of which I watch being ravaged during hurricane Charley last August on ABC News NOW while handling Yahoo!'s video coverage. I was surprised to still see so much hurricane damage -- some houses were still torn open. When I arrived at Poynter for the welcome reception and dinner, I met fellow redhead Theresa Moore, Executive Producer of Web Content for WTSP-TV Tampa Bay's 10. Fresno Bee reporter Matt Thompson came over and welcomed me saying, "Hey, you're one of the bloggers here!" I found out that Matt and another conference participant Robin Sloan have kept a blog called SnarkMarket since late 2003. Robin currently works as a producer at INdTV in San Francisco. (Oddly enough, former VP Al Gore is a founder of the network which aims to serve the twentysomething and thirtysomething audience with "real life video." This Washington Post piece tells a bit about what kinds of programming to expect, including a show called "That's F*&#ed Up". I told him about Pirate Cat Radio and Pirate Cat TV. So far, I see the print newspaper folks making comments that are somewhat disdainful of bloggers, while knowing that bloggers are themselves pretty darn disdainful of "real" media folks. Longtime family friend and my brother's first girlfriend Kristy Fox drove down from Orlando to visit me, and we walked around St. Petersburg late at night and found a restaurant to serve us chocolate cake and tiramisu. She brought a photo of us taken in 1988, which I may post here. Labels: blog, blogger, dad, florida, news posted by Jess Barron @ 9:26 PM 
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