I am the Tate: After hours

Monday, April 11, 2005

After hours

This afternoon in lab, I worked on cleaning up the web site and also putting up a couple new stories on flash. I was also supposed to write some descriptions for stories that won awards, but I got distracted with the other web site work, so it never happened. Sorry Staci. I also called the Douglas County courts or something like that to get information on the hit-and-run case.

Then when I came home today, I started looking at the tv.ku.edu web site and kept seeing little problems. Like teases that were too long and slugs that weren't capitalized correctly. I basically have issues with wanting to fix and change so many things on the web site when I go look at it later. Sometimes if it's obvious mistakes I change them, but other times I don't know if what I'm thinking is right. So then I just have to stop looking at the web site until it's actually my shift to edit it. I don't know if it's a problem really, but I definitely am always wanting to fix things. That's all.

I'm getting a little overwhelmed with the work I have to do in class. I have to put stories up for a TV News II reporter as well as a Kansan reporter. Meanwhile, we're trying to plan out all of our ideas for this new web site and be ready to present it in a month. I just hope I'm not forgetting anything. Whatever, I can handle it.

So to sum up, I put some stuff on the web today, I'm kind-of an obsessive editor and I'm trying to keep track of all the stuff I have to do for this class in the next month. Now, to try to spice this up a little, here are my two favorite moments from my lab shift today:

1. Professor Dick Nelson asked Laura Phillips if he could use her facebook account. I mean granted, he just wanted to get a logo off of it, but it was funny. Everyone else tried to convince him to start his own facebook profile. Not gonna happen.

2. Everyone in the newsroom stopped to watch the CNN for a few minutes because these cops were actually exploding two suitcases that were found abandoned on capitol hill in D.C. It was pretty sweet watching a suitcase get exploded. I'm pretty sure there was nothing suspicious.

That's all, I'm out.

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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!