Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow

31
Oct

Why is the business of news so difficult?

The below is from a thread on Threads, reacting to the owner-imposed crisis at the Washington Post and the trend
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31
Oct

16 years later, another new CMS

In 2008 I moved this blog over from Django to WordPress self-hosted. Somewhat unrelated to the recent WP-driven controversies, my
29
Dec

10 Product Management books that are not (directly) about product management

It is easy to find suggested reading lists for product managers. The collections often have the words “Product Management” repeated
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23
Nov

The discussion about objectivity

Originally, this was a Twitter thread. I copied it here for safe-keeping. https://twitter.com/dkiesow/status/1463339287135625216?s=21
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13
Sep

How not to make decisions

Our Board of Curators will vote this afternoon (9/13/21) to reassess the mandatory classroom-mask policy set in place
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08
Sep

Print and Digital Affordances in News - a not European Vacation.

A thing in academia is to go to conferences in hopefully far-flung locales and sit on a panel with 5
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31
Dec

Improving my research and writing workflow

This year I realized that what I tell students, “If the writing is hard, you have not done enough
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13
May

Serving Community Information Needs, and Supporting Student Journalists in Missouri

With the generous support of the Walter B. Potter Fund for Innovation in Local Journalism and the Reynolds Journalism Institute,
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17
Apr

Buyer’s Guide: How to video conference with style (and lights) during a pandemic

A quick addendum to the gear list below. I am now splitting time between the home office and the work
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04
Apr

How to fix the virtual camera function in Zoom

Update 5/22: In the comments, Ricardo Matosinhos notes that Zoom version 5.0.x on May 24 will restore
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