University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

We took the wraps off the new WUFT TV News section of the station’s Web site yesterday. Currently, all of the content there is recycled from the previous version of the news pages.
This is the first broadcast station news Web in the college to be running on Textpattern.  I hope that by the start of [...]

As part of an initiative of the Provost’s office, we added additional Academic Advising pages to the site this week.

Mindy passed along a link today to this online journalism timeline (scroll down to October 1993). Hmmm, I wonder if this was the writer’s source?

I just released a new version of the template for this blog. I started working on this last week and it was all done except a little fine tuning yesterday (though it wasn’t not worked on continuously in that time frame). It does not look much different, cosmetically, but a lot of code was changed, [...]

Last Monday (the Monday before March 1) marked my fifth anniversary of coming to work here.

In preparation for the installation of larger monitors in the News Wall, I switched the monitor resolution on the companion system in the IML to 1024×768 from 800×600.
It’s interesting to watch the loop and see what sites work well at the larger screen size and which are rigidly designed to work best at the former [...]

Here is something I picked up from Josh Hallett, last week’s PRSSA guest speaker. He spoke about it and caused me to go read about it on his blog.
He spoke of the PubSub service, a sort of blog search engine which allows you to create RSS (and atom) feeds according to parameters of your choosing.
I [...]

SPJ President (among many other things) Dave Carlson has started blogging about his travels. “Encouraged by colleagues” he says, that would be me.