Media Madness in Greensboro

Dave is in full coverage mode with the Gophers in Greensboro. He's blogging. He's twittering. He's facebook-ing. And he's doing the old fashioned stuff too, like shooting video, doing live shots, asking questions, and writing packages.

He also got to catch up with our friends Darrell and Fletcher, who drove a long 15 hours from Louisiana to cover LSU. It's a small world in the media. Thank you Darrell for the picture that I lifted from your blog--Dave doesn't do alot of pictures. Maybe that should be on his list. Here's Dave and Darrell right off the court:


At a time when newspapers produce broadcasts on the web and broadcast produces articles on the web, it's sometimes hard to figure out where the media world is going. Getting information fast has become the standard, and as technology changes and gets faster so do we. In radio, it's called "feeding the shark." You have to continually feed the deadlines, or the deadlines will get you. And then, shark is never full, so you keep feeding it. With even more mediums to feed, there's more chance someone will get overwhelmed somewhere. And, sometimes the story gets lost along the way.

In Dave's Twitter messages, he has to keep the message to 40 characters--tell a story in 40 characters. Wow. Longer, in-depth pieces are still on the 10 o'clock news, leaving us newshounds hope that the industry we love (and hate) will survive somehow.

But only if we report, produce, shoot, write, edit, Twitter, blog, Facebook, and write articles on the web too.