Award | Words & Tricks

And the award for comment of the week goes to…

March 10th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Opinion by Chris Pommier

In response to my last post in which I embedded a popular video by Common Craft explaining the why-would-I-bother and how-does-it-work of Twitter, Aspartaimee had this to say,

i can’t keep up with kids today. bloging and txting and ROTF, and twitter and the myfacespacebook. i feel like i need to retire to a double-wide somewhere and gnaw on cold chicken from a bucket as i yell out the window forkids to get out of my yard, don’t they know they are interrupting my stories?

Though Asparaimee isn’t yet on Twitter, she did admit that she’s seeing it everywhere lately. You can find me, and follow me, there.

Thanks, Asparatimee. The prize for winning the Comment of the Week award is my undying gratitude for reading and commenting. As well as fame and glory, such as it is.

What do you think? Enough with the social media already? Or will there never be enough ways for us to communicate with each other while we’re supposed to be working?

Finally, shouldn’t there really be something called Myfacespacebook?

Minneapolis Star Tribune wins multimedia journalism award

February 26th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Minnesota, News by Chris Pommier

The Newspaper Association of America gave the Minneapolis Star Tribune a Digital Edge award for Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling in 2007 for the paper’s piece A People Torn. The story explores the experience of Liberian immigrants in their home country and in Minnesota.

This is particularly interesting to me, because I’m currently working in my free time as an Editorial Intern for the Minnesota Literacy Council. There are three of us who volunteer our time to put together this year’s book, which compiles entries from the various literacy programs in the state. Many of the adult learners are immigrants, and many of those are Liberian.

I’ve been incredibly moved by the stories that many of these adult learners share. They are often strikingly honest about their experience as refugees. Stay tuned to this blog and I’ll let you know when we publish the 2008 book. It’s worth a read. Perhaps I can get permission to post some of their stories here, as well.