This blog isn’t about judging others. It’s about learning and sharing.
Me learning. You learning.
Me sharing. You sharing.

This WordPress blog is in beta form.
January 2007, I began experimenting with WordPress on their two different formats: A straight blog on WordPress.com and a web-hosted blog.

The entries on this blog prior to March 22, 2007, are a conglomeration of the online-journal postings I’ve written on those different blog formats, plus notes I’ve taken. Some of those prior posts are hiding at the other blogs, because I’m still attempting to figure out coding issues mainly with flash and video.

April 8, 2007, I officially turned on the RSS feed.

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Purpose

The list

It is:

  • experimentation
  • inspiration
  • information
  • truth
  • ever-evolving
  • the explanation

      this journal is about:
  • sharing fair and accurate journalism on journalism and its future;
  • helping both readers and journalists learn about new online media;
  • sharing issues that matter to me which may matter to you;
  • experimenting with the latest interactive technologies online;
  • sharing my own vision of how things work.
  • I want to accomplish this through:

  • trial and error;
  • persistence;
  • passion;
  • exchanging ideas with you, the readers.
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    nine lives
    they say curiosity killed the cat.
    i’m seeking to defy that.

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    Copyright


    Creative Commons License

    This work is licensed under a
    Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.

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    Who do I think I am?

    Nancy_mugshot022008My real name is Nancy JonesFrancis. Someone once called me a modern-day Annie Oakley.

    Beginning in the summer of 1985, I worked for daily newspapers in a variety of forms, but mainly as a visual journalist. January 2009, I ended my newspaper career when the newspaper I was working for, The Grand Rapids Press in Grand Rapids, Mich., offered buyouts to all non-bargaining employees who worked there five or more years and weren’t department heads. I’m taking the opportunity to reinvent myself.

    In 1987, I received my B.A. in English from Syracuse University.

    I have a tendency to shoot from the hip, like any good Annie Oakley would do. I tend to look at the whole picture rather than the minute details, which can have its positive and negative effects.

    Please comment. I love feedback, and try to learn from it, especially when it’s constructive.




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