I am the Tate: Procrastination

Monday, March 14, 2005

Procrastination

I'm avoiding writing a Spanish paper now to write in my blog. I just wanted to talk about my news shift today. It went a little something like this:

Job #1: The John Randle story. John Randle got arrested. Again. Josh Bickel came into the newsroom today to give us the scoop on that. Apparently he was in a fight outside It's Brother's and got arrested. I think I don't ever want to go to It's Brothers. Too much stuff goes down there. But isn't it funny that it's called "IT'S Brothers" and not just "Brothers?" Okay maybe that's only entertaining to me and my roommate and my friend Kyle Padden. Anyway I put that little diddy up on the web as "Breaking News" and upon Staci's suggestion, printed it out and put it on the clipboard so they'll follow-up on it tomorrow.

Job #2: Hunt down reporters. I found Brooke and Haley and they gave me a tape. Okay, so I guess I understand the importance of this story about political blogging, but man was it confusing and hard to write a tease for. No offense to anyone involved in working on that one, but it didn't seem especially exciting to me. Yeah so I took a picture from their footage and got that up on the web.

Job #3: Creating a tease for ANOTHER story about gas prices from Tom Hipp. If we had a gas beat, he'd be on it for sure. This one was about airplane fuel prices. Surprise, surpise, they're rising as well. I have to give Laura Phillips credit for creating the headline for that one: Soaring gas prices may ground airplanes. Beautiful. Didn't have time to get a picture for that, my shift was over.

Closing comment: What's with all the grey? My suggestion for tv.ku.edu is to cut off like one line of the translucent grey stuff at the bottom of the picture. As of now, I think it unnecessarily cuts off too much of the picture because we never use the last line. And we never would, because you can't read that much stuff when it's on flash. I don't know, that's just my opinion.

Oh yeah, and I emailed my Kansan soon-to-be-friend Eric Sorrentino. Just waiting for a response.

Back to stupid Spanish. Man is it spring break yet???

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the story of the tateblog

In the spring semester of 2005 at KU, I took an online journalism class. Our job in the class was to manage, publish and create the University Daily Kansan web site in only its first or second semester of existence. One of the requirements was that we write in a blog twice a week about what we were learning and accomplishing in class. In its early stages, the tateblog gained attention from original fans Justin Hume and Emily Ashcraft, who for some reason enjoyed reading about my experiences.

After the class was over, I thought tateblog would die. But the fans demanded more. Tateblog started up again in September 2005. From there it grew into quite a phenomenon, until after a year or so tateblogs became less consistent (and arguably less exciting). I even almost decided to call it quits at one point, but I just can't do it. Tateblog must live on.

My life is in a pretty different place nowadays. After taking a two year break from blogging, most likely because in the midst of seminary I had no desire to write anything else, I think I might come back to my old blogging roots. Maybe not so much about weird stuff my friends do, but probably just some thoughts I have on life. So, read it if you like it!