Lance Turner

• It’s Friday! What You Need Is a Good Mixtape

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  After having read this Web site for months now and putting up with its sporadic updates and dubious content, you deserve something in return, don’t you? Of course you do! That’s what we’re giving away some free music. It’s our first contribution to a mixtape series some of the fine folks [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:40pm EDT
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• Talking Social Media and Business at Commerce Arkansas Nov. 3

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  About 900 folks came out to Commerce Arkansas last year, a business expo at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock put on by Arkansas Business and the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. This year, we’re doing it again on Nov. 3, and we’ve got a great lineup of [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:15pm EDT
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• OU: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephens Northwest Merger Moving Forward

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  Christopher Spencer’s Ozarks Unbound reports that the merger between the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Stephens Media’s northwest Arkansas operations is moving forward, with newspaper employees interviewing for their old jobs this week: Staff with The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, the Northwest Arkansas Times and the Benton County Daily Record were told [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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• The First Arkansas Lottery Fraud Fail

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  I guess someone had to do it. According to KATV-TV, Channel 7, a woman was arrested trying to pass off a fake winning lottery ticket at Arkansas Lottery headquarters in downtown Little Rock. A woman is arrested inside the Arkansas Lottery Headquarters Monday afternoon…and KATV’s cameras were there for the arrest. [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 7:35am EDT
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• Lottery Execs Hit the JackPot & A Cautionary Tale in Arkansas Business This Week

  We’re back in business. Here’s the latest from the Monday print edition of Arkansas Business: Remember those phat lottery salaries everybody was so riled up about for about five minutes a few months ago? They’re big enough to put a few lottery workers among the “jocks and docs” on our annual [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:00am EDT
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• Are We Really Ready for This?

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  Only this could shake us from an annoyingly long period of blog inactivity. In the face of it, one can only ask, Is the World Ready? Of course, we know it’s possible to handily butcher the English language in 140 characters. But we expect big things from Wally. Wally Hall on Twitter [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:10am EDT
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• We’ve Seen This Before

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  Nasa’s mission this week: to smash into the moon [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:02am EDT
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• 5oh1: The Zack & Robert Show

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  Good luck, guys. 5oh1 [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
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• ‘Caught on Tape,’ In This Week’s Arkansas Business

  This week’s Arkansas Business, available now. Among the highlights: Haven’t you heard? Today’s the lottery! Let’s all go buy a ticket and become millionaires! Before that, though, read George Waldon’s story on all the security surrounding the lottery and the insane levels of security on each of its tickets. And speaking of [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 8:20am EDT
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• Come Out to the SPJ Blogging Academy and Learn Something, Why Don’t Ya?

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  The local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (the people who brought you this) is taking you bloggers seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they’re ready to help you learn the tricks of the trade in an earnest bid to encourage a new crop of citizen journalists to raise [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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• Molding Young Minds at UALR High School Journalism Day

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  Much thanks to the Sonny Rhodes and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for inviting me to speak during two sessions of UALR’s annual Journalism Day event, which took place Thursday. Andrew DeMillo of The Associated Press gave the event’s keynote address on “Why Journalism Matters,” and other session leaders [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 7:00am EDT
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• The Week We Forgot About This Blog!

  Holy crap, was that a week that just when by? No, that was two weeks! Who’s running this show around here, anyway? But thanks for remembering us! We’re about to ramp things back up around here, for what’s it worth. Regular posting, such as it is, begins again soon. Meanwhile, enjoy this [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
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• Intermission

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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 9:57am EDT
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• Construction, Dillard’s & Target in This Week’s Arkansas Business

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  This week’s Arkansas Business is online. Among the highlights: Dillard’s Inc. of Little Rock board member R. Brad Martin of Memphis is just pleased as punch to see J.C. Watts back on the board. Developer Jim Strode wants to jump-start his new Park Avenue development in midtown so bad that he’s given [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 8:06am EDT
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• The Friday Week in Review: You Lie! Edition

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  It’s Friday, and time for another long look back at a brutal week in politics, sports and the Web. We’re going to try for a reasoned, respectful debate here, so no shouting! But feel free to call us out in comments if we start going on about death panels. Remember: [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
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• Is Print Hot Again? BusinessWeek, Chicago Sun-Times Have Bidders

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  Did you know that instead of reading constantly updated breaking news online, you can also access a summary of yesterday’s news in physical, printed format? There are several types of “print,” including things called “magazines” and “newspapers.” Several are for sale, including one here in Arkansas. But so far, not [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 7:54am EDT
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• It’s Twestival Day in the Rock: Event at Clinton Library to Benefit Reach Out and Read Arkansas

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  Today is Twestival Day! Little Rock is among several cities across the country taking part in this Twitter-based fund-raiser for nonprofits. In Arkansas, the Little Rock Twestival benefits Reach Out and Read Arkansas, which works to promote literacy through early intervention.The group trains doctors and nurses to advise parents about the [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 7:15am EDT
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• Video: Google News Offers Tips, Best Practices for Journalists, Publishers

  This 15-minute video is totally worth your time if you’re a publisher, editor or Webmaster looking to optimize your news content for Google News. In it, Maile Ohye of Google talks about best practices and answers frequently asked questions about how Google News crawls, indexes and ranks news stories in [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:59am EDT
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• ‘When Wal-Mart Leaves’ in This Week’s Arkansas Business

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  Labor Day’s over. Time to get back to work. This week’s Arkansas Business and Northwest Arkansas Business Journal are available now. Among the highlights: Wal-Mart closed its only store in Brinkley in May. What followed goes against conventional wisdom, as city sales taxes rose, local stores added more merchandise and two [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:29am EDT
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• Statement: ‘Both’ Morning News, DG Will Cover Razorbacks

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  The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Stephens Media issued a joint statement this afternoon, answering some reporting on what their new venture’s staffing plans might be and (perhaps most importantly!) just who’ll be responsible for covering Arkansas’ beloved Razorbacks. First, in response to a report by the City Wire on the “radical [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
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• Here’s to the Twestival! Natalie Ghidotti and Her Favorite Childhood Book

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  As we mentioned early, Arkansas bloggers are supporting next week’s nonprofit fund-raiser, the “Twestival,” by blogging about their favorite children’s book — this, in honor of the Twestival’s beneficiary, Reach Out and Read Arkansas. Alex Cone and Tsudo are among those blogger their beloved books. Kyran Pittman has her own post [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
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• Friday Week In Review: Who Will Wear the Crown? Edition

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  Now that the Great Northwest Arkansas Newspaper War is settled, we can move on to other, more important forms of media self-destruction, like giving away all our online content for free! Here now, at no extra charge, is a loving look back at the Week The Way It Was, Not Necessarily [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
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• ArkansasBusiness.com: Democrat-Gazette, Stephens Employees Face ‘Uncertain’ Future

  Rob Keys of Arkansas Business’ sister publication, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, files a report today on ArkansasBusiness.com in the aftermath of yesterday’s joint venture announcement between the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Stephens Media in northwest Arkansas. Not surprisingly, uncertainty appears to be a common theme among employees of both operations: Said an [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:45pm EDT
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• The Morning After: Merry Christmas, Newspaper War Is Over

  A round-up of Day Two coverage of the end of the Northwest Arkansas Newspaper War, such as it was. Michael Tilley’s City Wire has details on the board that will control Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC, saying that the Stephens Media gets 2 seats on a five seat board, which of course [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 8:23am EDT
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• Implications, Random Thoughts on the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephens Media Joint Venture

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  The plan for a joint venture announced today between the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Stephens Media in northwest Arkansas raises all kinds of questions, many of which we hope to answer in our continuing coverage this afternoon on ArkansasBusiness.com. Among the many points to ponder should the joint venture deal go through: Staffing: [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
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• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephens Media End Northwest Arkansas Newspaper War

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  The war is over. After suffering “significant financial losses during the current economic recession,” the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Stephens Media plan a joint venture in northwest Arkansas, the news organizations announced Thursday. The joint venture would move forward if Stephens can’t find a buyer for its flagship newspaper, The Morning News. But [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 10:43am EDT
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• Pew Study Shows Emerging Trends in Political, Civic Engagement Online

  On KARN radio on Monday, political bloggers Blake Rutherford and David Kinkade commented on how new media has finally arrived in Arkansas, and how blogs and social networks will play an even bigger role in the 2010 election cycle (one that’s already sure to be exciting given a certain U.S. [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:38am EDT
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• Blur

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  (Random image of the week, by Laura.) [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
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• Frank Robins III, Former Owner and Publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat

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  Frank Robins III, the former publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat, died on Saturday at the age of 80. You can read his obituary on the Web site of the newspaper he once owned here. The newspaper’s article on Robins appears here. Robins was my wife Laura’s uncle. I didn’t get [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:55am EDT
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• Alltel — er, Verizon Arena, 10 Years Later, In This Week’s Arkansas Business

  This week’s Arkansas Business is online now. Among the highlights: Alltel Arena Verizon Arena marks its 10th anniversary next month and everyone from its general manager to those who helped build it consider it an unqualified success. What began with talk of cracked raker beams and postponed events and become an [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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• LT, On Your TV and Radio Dials This Weekend

  No rest for the narcissistic! Not content with the Internet, we’re also on the airwaves this weekend, aiming for Paris Hilton levels of overexposure. To wit: Arkansas Week, 8:30 p.m. Friday, AETN – Catch myself, host Steve Barnes and Hoyt Purvis of the University of Arkansas as we tag-n-bag the week [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
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• Friday Week in Review: Pouring One Out for Teddy K.

  And there you have it. Another week in the can, another Kennedy cast off this mortal coil. Other stuff happened too, and there were blogs that wrote about it. Let us reminisce … Walter Hussman spread the gospel of No Free Meal on the Internets. Blake Rutherford remembered Ted Kennedy (how could [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 2:08pm EDT
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• Are You Ready for Football? The Arkansas High School Kickoff Classic Begins Monday

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  We don’t usually get too involved in sports on the blog — except when it helps pay the bills! To that end, we’d like to call your attention to an event our employer is putting on, with the help of our friends at 103.7 The Buzz: It’s ArkansasSports360.com’s first annual [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 7:15am EDT
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• Tonight: A Cajun’s-style #LRTweetup

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  UPDATED: We had another great turnout! @KatieMcManners posts a photo of one group of us here. Plus: The Twestival announced, see more here. Tonight: The Fourth #LRTweetup at Cajun’s in Little Rock, underway at 5:30 p.m. Come socialize (in person!) with local Tweeters on the bank of the Arkansas River. RSVP [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:25am EDT
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• The Guardian UK, Walter Hussman Talk Online News Over Whole Hog in Little Rock

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  Walter Hussman, everyone’s favorite newspaper publisher bravely charging for online news and somehow “making it work,” is back in the headlines, entertaining a Guardian UK writer at Whole Hog Cafe and talking about how print/Internet strategy is working. As we’ve noted before, “preserve the print edition” has been the goal. The [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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• The FTC to Hold Hold Workshops on Journalism in the Internet Age

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  First, there was John Kerry’s Congressional subcommittee hearing on “the Future of Journalism.” And now, the Federal Trade Commission is set to hold two days of workshops in December on journalism and its survival in the Internet age: Though some may be uncomfortable with government oversight of any aspect of journalism, [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 7:41am EDT
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• New CEO at PAM and Testing the Pay Model in Pine Bluff in This Week’s Arkansas Business

  It’s Monday already. And that means a new edition of Arkansas Business newspaper, available now. Among the highlights: Stephens Media will test a locked down model for online news with its Pine Bluff Commercial, Stephens President Sherman Frederick says. He says ArkansasNews.com, which aggregates news from the Stephens papers in Arkansas, [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:26am EDT
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• The Razorbacks’ DJ Williams on the New ArkansasSports360.com

  The new ArkansasSports360.com is out with the Razorbacks DJ Williams on the cover. You can read Chris Bahn’s cover story here. [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 8:21am EDT
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• The Friday Week in Review: Abbreviated Edition

  Have we mentioned how out of it we’ve been? This week has been one slow slog into oblivion. Fortunately, some stuff happened, and now we’ll relive it. Here’s a quick look back at The Week That Once Was, blogwise: Bullwhiz, the e-mail gossip sheet founded by Paul Johnson back in the day, [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
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• We’re Gonna Tweetup Next Week at Cajun’s

  In case you’re not following @LRTweetup or watching the Official LRTweetup blog, take note: We’ll be tweeting up right here in Little Rock starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Cajun’s. You can RSVP here, and probably should. Last month’s event, at Copper Grill, was the biggest yet, and the next one [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
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• What You Can Learn on Twitter

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  It’s been a long couple of weeks, and we’re somewhat out of the loop. Thankfully, Twitter’s here to help! The answer came swiftly: Mystery solved! Or is it? All those quotation marks deepen our suspicion. This weekend, I’ll be catching up on my Tolbert Report! More Austin San Antonio running for … something [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
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• Video: The Do’s and Don’ts Of Using Twitter in the Workplace

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  Today on “Today’s THV This Morning,” I sat down with Charles Crowson (who tweets @CCrowson016) to talk about what can happen when your Twitter life affects your work life. Or, rather, when you say something stupid on Twitter and your boss finds out. Just as users are having to learn to [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:06am EDT
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• And That’s No Bull: The Return (Again) of Bullwhiz

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  Bullwhiz is back. Again. The Little Rock-based gossip e-mail, which began in Internet-infancy era of the early 90s and was read and fed by journalists, PR officials, politicos and business leaders, has gone through several incarnations and curators and now has been reborn as an Arkansas news aggregator. You can check it [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 8:58am EDT
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• Another Look at Health Care and the Lottery in Arkansas in This Week’s Arkansas Business

  This week’s Arkansas Business is out and live on the Web. Among this week’s stories: Editor Gwen Moritz has been reading the blogs, and this week she offers another view of health care after reading Cory Allen Cox’s essay on his late sister’s experience with the system over at The Arkansas [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 7:45am EDT
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• Tune In: I’ll Be a Guest on Arkansas Sunday Edition This Weekend

  UPDATE: We’re off the air. It was a fun show! Congrats to Blake on his radio debut, and my thanks for inviting me to come on. Along with RJ Hawk, Jessica Dean and David Kinkade, we talked health care, Blanche Lincoln, GOP candidates for U.S. Senate and Bob Dylan. We [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
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• Friday Week in Review: The Week We Were Barely Here

  Who’s running this blog, anyway? Because one of the keys to successful blogging is that there be new posts on a semi-regular basis. And in that regard, we’ve been an utter failure this week! But we have been making the rounds to all the hottest health care town halls — [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
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• Inside the AP’s Plans to Protect Its Content

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  We’ve been reading some excellent posts and discussion this week on one of the Associated Press’ proposals to reinvent itself in the Web era. Much of that discussion has been spurred by Zachary Seward, blogging at the Neiman Journalism Lab. He’s run across a copy of an AP proposal called [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 9:21am EDT
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• Media Notes: Inside Saline Debuts; ‘FaceFriend’ Announced; Local, Local Local!

  Please excuse us while we navel-gaze. The latest bits from around the media world, Arkansas and beyond: Airheads – Blake Rutherford guests today on 103.7 The Buzz from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tune in for a taste of the his new radio show, starting this weekend. Web Jones -  Whit Jones, [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 8:56am EDT
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• Holding the Bag for the Turk Plant and More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

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  It’s Monday and time for the latest edition of Arkansas Business. This special edition focuses on utilities and includes the lists of the largest electric and natural gas companies in Arkansas. Among other highlights: Jamie Walden examines the cases against Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s John W. Turk Jr. coal-fired power plant [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 7:29am EDT
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• Fun Times with Tumblr: The Daily Baz and The Sweet Tea Body Count

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  We’ve discussed the virtues of Tumblr before. Now comes two more worth a follow: The Daily Baz – Photos, videos, quotes from your favorite Razorback-turned-spokesman-turned-TV-sportscaster-turned-morning-radio-jock, probably not maintained by the man himself. A shot of today’s entry at right. The Sweet Tea Body Count – A look at the essential death columns [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
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