UM-Flint student blogger seeks readers

HARTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — I received an e-mail today in my University of Michigan-Flint account — so you probably did, too — from Marcos Baston, a student blogger for UM-Flint. He's trying to generate some buzz and comments for his blog through his e-mail. Sounds like a good idea to me.

As journalism students, what do you think of the university having a student blogger? Does this compete with or augment other student media, such as The Michigan Times? As a university blogger, I wonder how much freedom to express himself that he has. What do you think of his blog?

Remember, if you comment, you can pick up some EC points. If not, this might be a good enough of a subject for me to post our “Discussion Board.”

New Twitter list tool expected to help journalists

HARTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Twitter is about to unveil a new tool publicly that allows users to create lists — a move that will benefit journalists, according to Craig Kanalley in his post today on E-Media Tidbits.

It would be smart to check this post out because we will be working with Twitter in a few short weeks.

One other side note, I learned about this impending change last week at that training seminar put on by the Online News Association in Ann Arbor. I still plan on some posts from what I learned there as we go.