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I graduated high school many years ago, and first got online in 1992. The Internet was there, but not the World Wide Web at that point. I wrote a series of articles for the newspaper at my university about the Internet. Chris wrote me with a question about his college newspaper, and getting it online. Specifically, he is confused about them needing something simple to update with an easy interface. The reason is, they won’t always have a tech guy around. Chris feels that buying their own domain name is just too much for them, and they aren’t happy with the free WordPress package, as they don’t like the templates. Additionally, they have almost no budget. So, he turned to me for help.

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On Friday, i played devil’s advocate in front of a group of newspaper editors, journalists, and professional wordsmiths. What are newspapers doing right? What are newspapers doing wrong? I thought I hit the “Record” button on my live stream, but that turned out not to be the case (at least, there’s no record of it in “My Stuff”). No matter, it seems the video and audio flaked out halfway through the presentation. I was only able to caputre the relevant portions from our chat room backchannel (which was also projected on the screen behind me):

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