Christmas at Jefferson Pointe

I think Santa's on his way

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It's like Florida on a bad day

Eating outside at panera in November

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Worrying the sun has taken the winter off

Praying that this is true

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Low, broken clouds/beaten, bare fields/raw

Low, broken clouds/beaten, bare fields/raw wind, a hesitant drizzle/Verdant June so far away

Dark. Spare. Raw.

What November is

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Social media and local news

Just read this on Mashable.com -- How Social Media Is Taking the News Local -- and I think our own local media outlets would be well served to read, ruminate, then act.

TV seems to be jumping on the social media bandwagon lately--I've been getting Twitter-spammed by INC news updates -- but not so much from our hard copy friends at Ft. Wayne Newspapers. I was getting Journal-Gazette Facebook updates for awhile but they seem to be so spaced out I'm missing them. Don't see a Twitter feed either.

Interesting phenomena, local papers. I think I'm about to cancel at least one of them. By the time I read it, I know all the news AND the commentary. And, I think, anytime some local editor's idea of "hyper-local" is a) running a picture of someone's PIE (I will never recover from that, News-Sentinel) or 2) running pictures of people's vacations in Phoenix, Arizona (really, NS, who cares except the people sending the pictures? And you're going to sell, what, two copies of the paper to them?)

And don't even get my started on The Rant, which should be ripped from the pages and shot at dawn.

But obviously some newspapers are getting hyper-local (which, ironically, we used to have--i.e. Prepsports and Neighbors [old iteration, not present]).

I put off cancelling my subscription for altruistic reasons. But my finger's on the dial.

Bare ruined choirs / Where late the sweet birds sing

Shakespeare knew

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Purdue embraces social media

From Mashable:

Purdue University Adds Twitter and Facebook to Class Participation

from Mashable! by Barb Dybwad

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Students at Purdue University are experimenting with a new application developed at the school called Hotseat that integrates Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging to help students “backchannel” during class.

People who have attended technology conferences in the past several years are already familiar with this phenomenon, where social media is leveraged to allow the participants in a session or panel to comment and exchange questions and ideas in real-time. At Purdue, Hotseat is used to allow students to comment on the class as it proceeds, with everyone in the class including the professor able to see the messaging as it happens.

More here:

http://mashable.com/2009/11/03/hotseat/

New baseball complex in Sandusky, Ohio

American Legends Ballpark Breaks Ground 

The developers of American Legends Ballpark broke ground last week on a multi-million-dollar project, aimed at bringing thousands of youth baseball teams and their families to the region each year.  Weekly youth team camps will be held in the summer with weekend mini-camps in the spring and fall.  The complex will feature dormitories, retail shops and meeting spaces. The first phase (nine fields, dorms, a mess hall, field offices and retail area) is expected to bring up to 600 youth, plus coaches, umpires and families each week in its first season. Phase one is planned for completion in April, 2010 - in time for the Kalahari Classic tournament scheduled for April 30.

 

If you have children ages 9-12 involved in this sport, talk to their coaches and start planning your trip to Lake Erie Shores & Islands now.  Besides the brand-new, first-class athletic facilities, the region offers a great combination of family entertainment options. 

 

Check out AmericanLegendsPark.com for the latest news and to register for camps and tournaments.