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by Cho rcs1
Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 03:33:24 PM EST

Thought our timelines folks would appreciate the appreciation... since Professor Poulson keys in on exactly what the ePluribus Media Timelines tools are all about.  

We did receive an earlier kudo from the Knight Ridder Washington DC Bureau Librarian, also admiring the merits of our searchable timelines. This one is from the guy at the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

Check out how he describes using timelines in journalism, and of course, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

letter below the fold.


citizen journalism :: :: :: buzz-it!
Hi,

The timelines are great and I have been using them in class when I point to new ways of doing journalism. In fact, I'd like to copy the idea for a class I'm teaching about the development of contaminated sites in the Great Lakes.

As a professional journalist, I often scribbled down timelines to keep a complex and ever-breaking story straight in my own mind. Readers never saw them, but they were a great help to me as I covered the issue.

My center does significant outreach education to professional journalists. I'd like to "teach" this kind of timeline development as a reporting tool. I can envision journalists keeping track of files, datasets, images, government reports, interview notes, on a timeline that they keep on
their desktop.

Is there a desktop application of what you do? Is this a technology that can be taught easily? Is there off-the-shelf software that a reporter could by and accomplish this task?

I see two distinct applications of your timelines for journalists. One is for the gathering and organizing of information. The other is for disseminating it to the public.

Of course the one application could easily feed the other. Any help, suggestions, context are appreciated.

Dave Poulson
Associate Director
Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
Michigan State University


posted with Mr. Poulson's permission.
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Kudos to Lefty Limblog (5.00 / 2) (#1)
If it weren't for Lefty and downingstreetmemo.com, we wouldn't even have ePluribus Media timelines.

And from the original rollout of the timelines:

Special acknowledgement for their dedication and effort is given to: Lefty Limblog, Standingup, Kiw, Radish, Cho, JeninRI, XicanoPwr, 4fx, Downing Street Memo, highacidity, topdog08, Jeff Huber, Kfred, Cedwyn, Avahome

Take a bow, everyone!
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by wanderindiana on Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 10:27:56 PM EST

...and ilona too, later (5.00 / 1) (#3)
she and JeninRI did the entire PTSD acts of violence timeline.

Keep hoping that database stays small, though.

by Cho on Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 11:31:13 PM EST
[ Parent ]

JeninRI is going to get a special diary... (none / 0) (#6)
...someday soon all in her honor. I hope to make her turn scarlett red from the gushing that's due her. She is a researcher's best friend and ally. A fact-checking goddess. Thank you, JeninRI.

An irreplaceable resource and friendly voice around here...
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by ilona on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 12:12:15 AM EST
[ Parent ]

The title we have bestowed upon JeninRI (5.00 / 1) (#7)
is the Empress of fact checking, if you please.

by Cho on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 10:46:45 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Thanks! (5.00 / 2) (#8)
I'm just happy to have been nominated... No wait!  I'm happy to contribute =)

by jeninRI on Thu Feb 16, 2006 at 03:52:43 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Actually, we skipped right past (5.00 / 1) (#9)
the nomination part, and went straight to the crowning.

(Do Empresses wear crowns?)

Is the plural of empress empresses or empressi?

by Cho on Thu Feb 16, 2006 at 04:20:27 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Looks like Duke1676 is correct. (5.00 / 2) (#2)
After reading the letter, the first thing I thought about was Duke's You might think no one's listening, but they are commentary.

Thank you Lefty and the people at downingstreetmemo.com. Proof that collaborations do work.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. - Gandhi
by XicanoPwr on Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 10:40:40 PM EST

Yes, that was (is) a great commentary... (5.00 / 1) (#5)
...and a link that I've forwarded to others as well. What an inspirational story Duke shared with us! Never despair. We're making our mark...
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by ilona on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 12:07:51 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Just wanted to chime in quickly... (5.00 / 1) (#4)
...before I'm off to catch up on the night's sleep I missed last night (I'll do anything to help our troops w/PTSD).

Kudos to the trailblazers who started this whole process. I've been fortunate to have been taken under their wing and given the nourishment that any good story or issue needs. No (wo)man is an island -- and that is the true gift of ePM. A true, collaborative, deadly-serious, yet ever approachable form of journalism centered around sharing the load, rallying around each other, giving solid advice, sharing a bit of levity and warmth -- and getting the reporting right.

As I've said over and over, thank you for creating a home for the PTSD Timeline; I agree with you, Cho, that I do hope that Timeline is the least used, least updated of the lot. Those incidents remain with me and haunt me -- in a good way. They motivate me to ask more of myself, of others, and of our elected officials -- each incident in that timeline stays in me and moves me to keep pushing forward to do right by our soldiers and marines.

I'm excited for the new Timelines coming into being at ePM -- and I'm looking forward to working with the next generation of writers coming down the pike, ready to join us in our work here together.

So, I'd like to raise my glass in a toast with wanderindiana and salute Lefty Limblog, Standingup, Kiw, Radish, Cho, JeninRI, XicanoPwr, 4fx, Downing Street Memo, highacidity, topdog08, Jeff Huber, Kfred, Cedwyn, and Avahome. Your example is one to be admired and mirrored.

And a very special thank you to Ms. Ford and Commander Huber for their gracious and kind professional friendship.
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by ilona on Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 11:58:22 PM EST

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