Alex Leach, WDVX’s youngest DJ, began his career in bluegrass music just a few weeks before his 10th birthday. During a 2006 radio show, Leach shared how he started his career and what he likes best about bluegrass music and DJ’ing. Click here to watch the video.
NOTE: This is not a recent example of my work. This video was shot and edited as part of a larger Labor Day package in 2006.
According to this quiz, I haven’t converted to the South. I’m “40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.”
I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 last night, in an effort to add a tag cloud plug-in. The look of it annoyed me immediately, so I went into the Wordpress admin to kill it. It appears that upgrading took away my ease to make cosmetic fixes within Wordpress. I’m not sure if the theme I’m using is not being supported or what. I needed to download a PHP editor to fix my files, so I now have one of those on my personal computer.
The good news is I was finally able to figure out how to add categories, which I’ve been struggling with for a while. Apparently, you can add as many as you want in IE. This Firefox girl would never have guessed that was all I needed.
I’ve really enjoyed reading the results of Will Sullivan’s survey on journalism salaries. He got a cross-section of respondants, with job titles including entry-type producers to seasoned editors. And the overall message is that newspapers should pay for productivity.
As a young person working for a news site, this really hit home for me:
Maybe it’s just me and my web-nerd-bias, but an employee that’s worked for 2 years with 10 skills is worth much more than an employee who’s worked 10 years with two skills. I can’t seem to find the quote right now, but I swear Bob Cauthorn once said something to the effect of, ‘The longer someone’s been in the newspaper business, the more likelihood that they’re a liability.’ Sometimes I think that is very true.
And as many bloggers are talking about who in the newsroom should be doing what and with what training, I enjoy a recent comment from my boss, Jack Lail:
Getting hung up on details is like having fleas.
I’m working a few site upgrades and maintenance. I’ve been warned I may lose my templates, which took me forever to figure out initially. Hopefully, I’ll be upgraded without problems shortly.