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The seventh entry in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (after 2005's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies) reaffirms Smith's considerable gifts as a writer. His familiar characters offer further facets of their personalities, and their gentle, tolerant approach to life remains a refreshing contrast to most fictional figures, let alone those populating most mysteries. The author's love for his creations and for his Botswana setting are evident on every page. While the plot will be of secondary importance to fans of Precious Ramotswe, the "traditionally-built," self-taught private detective, and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, Smith presents them with several mysteries, including the search for the identity of a blackmailer and the source of malaise at a nearby game reserve. Ramotswe's intuition and understanding enable her to find the truth, while dispensing justice according to her own personal dictates. Even newcomers will be charmed by this wonderful novel, with its skillful blend of humor and pathos, and will doubtless rush to catch up with the earlier books.
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*Starred Review* In this seventh installment in McCall Smith's delightful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, "traditionally built" Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe faces one of her toughest challenges: losing weight. Luckily, there are plenty of dilemmas to keep her mind off her girth: a nearby village that seems under the influence of witchcraft, a cook suspected of filching food for her increasingly portly spouse, and a newspaper advice columnist who's doing more damage than good. Readers become better acquainted with assistant detective Mma Grace Makutsi, best known for earning a stellar 97 percent grade at the Botswana Secretarial College. Mma Makutsi (who harbors a passion for fashionable shoes) fears her well-off fiance, furniture salesman and reformed stutterer Phuti Radiphuti, will leave her after learning she's a feminist. (He has a nightmare in which he's swept aside by a large feminist with a broom.) Scotsman McCall Smith renders brisk, seamless tales that are both wry and profound. Amidst the mayhem (like the cobra that slithers its way into the detective agency's headquarters) are eloquent descriptions of the serene African country that holds a special place in his heart. "In Botswana," he writes, "ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to another, weaving across the country a human blanket of love and community." It is those ties and that sense of community that continue to make this series so appealing to both genre and nongenre readers. Allison Block
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Mma Ramotswe of course remains the traditionally-built central character, but the other characters also come into their own. Mma Makutsi again steals a little thunder from her employer, and even Assistant-Assistant Detective Polopetsi gets in on the action this time. McCall Smith divides the story into little anecdotes, blending them throughout the book until he sorts it all out at the end.
A new advice columnist appears on the scene and becomes an instant hit, even though Mma Ramotswe is of the opinion that her replies could use a little more effort. Next, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency gets a visit from an unwelcome guest, but thanks to the timely arrival of the manager of the Mokolodi Game Reserve and a cup of tea, everything soon goes back to normal. Well, almost normal, except that Mma Ramotswe decides that she may be a little TOO traditionally built, and takes the necessary steps to have this rectified.
Mma Makutsi feels that she has ruined her chances of marriage when she expresses her opinion on a controversial topic to her fiancé, but things seem a lot brighter after the purchase of a wonderful pair of high-heeled pointy-toed blue shoes.
Larceny, blackmail, witchcraft and fraud are all a part of "Blue Shoes and Happiness", another fine example of McCall Smith in his prime.
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Precious Ramotswe's life addresses such complexities on a daily basis. Even at the worst of times, she must maintain her cool. That's not always easy during the dry season when even the sunrise, when she likes to walk in her garden, is already hot. Life can be further involved by heated exchanges. Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's apprentice, Charlie, provides one of these. Since the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency shares space with Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's vehicle repair garage, Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the opportunities for such discussions are many. Especially as Charlie is young and inexperienced. And a man. Other complexities are more difficult to define, such as the pervasive feeling of discomfort among the staff of the Mokolodi Game Reserve. The Reserve is run by a good man, who is sensitive to his employees' feelings. But he's white and lacks the proper knowledge to deal with the issue. Mr Polopetsi, who orbits uncertainly between the garage and the Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has the knowledge and applies a solution. Is it the proper one?
Clearly, if you're looking for fast-paced action by he-man private investigators or cunning "wimmin" who outthink the most devious wrong-doer, this is not the book for you.Read more ›
For those who have read the earlier books, Blue Shoes and Happiness will strike most as the best balanced and most rewarding book in this delightful series. The story has animal tales (one involving a cobra), several mysteries to resolve, challenges in Mma Makutsi's engagement, a detection training opportunity for Mr Polopetsi, more challenges with Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's apprentices, decisive purchases by Mr J.L.B. Matekoni and Mma Makutsi, and many reflections on the true nature of happiness by Precious Ramotswe. In particular, the story does a fine job of contrasting the older ways in Botswana with the newer, selfish ways.
I had the pleasure to hear Alexander McCall Smith speak during his recent book tour for the book, and I came away with the false impression that this story was mostly about Mma Makutsi and her new shoes. That episode is simply one of many that investigate the nature of a person's inability to resist certain temptations. Although this book comes close to being just a series of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith ties them together so masterfully that you rarely think of the book as anything other than a lovely flowing novel.
To me, the best part of this book was that it developed the characters more than most books in the series have done. Dr. Smith uses both dialogue and action well to help us appreciate who these characters are.
I thought that the mysteries were nicely rewarding. The solutions were not obvious (except in retrospect) and helped tie the overall themes of the book together. I have to believe that this book was influenced, in part, by readers' love of seeing Precious detect in the context of the truly unique setting of Botswana.
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Studio: UniversalDistributed By: N/AVideo Resolution and Encode: 1080P/AVCAspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audio: English 5.1 DTS, Spanish 5.1 DTSSubtitles: English SDH, Spanish, FrenchRating: RRun Time: 1 Hr. 47 Mins.Package Includes: Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy, UltraVioletBlu-ray Case in SleeveDisc Type: BD50 (dual layer)Region: AllRelease Date: 04/23/2013MSRP: $34.98 The Production Rating: 3/5 Promised Land is a decent, earnest movie that has its heart in the right place, even if it doesn't ultimately succeed. Matt Damon and Frances McDormand play Steve and Sue, corporate salespeople dispatched to small rural towns around America to buy up drilling rights for a natural gas giant called Global Crosspower Solutions. In this case, they've come to a little town in Pennsylvania, offering the local farmers a chance to make a little money during bad economic times if they'll just agree to allow Global to start fracking on their land. Before the salespeople get very far, however, they are challenged by Dustin (John Krasinski), an environmental activist who is determined to make sure the town knows the real effects of fracking. The whole thing comes to a vote by the town, with the salespeople and Dustin engaged in a war of words and personalities to try to sway the townspeople. There's not much more to this movie than that premise. And at least in the first half hour, the movie really does work, presenting some beautiful vistas of rural Pennsylvania and some wonderful character moments for everyone, showing that director Gus Van Sant still has a knack for telling interesting local stories. But by the end of the movie, there's a strong feeling of dissatisfaction as the movie takes the easy way out of too many of its conflicts. It's difficult to recommend the movie due to those issues, which I'll describe in greater detail below, but fans of Gus Van Sant and Matt Damon may want to give this a rental.MAJOR SPOILERS HERE: So what's the problem with the movie? It's intelligently written and directed and it's trying to tell an interesting and important story. The title itself, Promised Land, is actually a bit of a play on words when you think about it. There's the "promised land" of America on the one hand, but there's also the matter that the movie is about buying up drilling rights for "promised" land. (This is a kind of call-back to the earlier collaboration of Damon and Van Sant, Good Will Hunting. And we should be clear about the purposes of this movie. This is not the political propaganda film that some critics and pundits have accused it of being. (There was a complete campaign against this film before it even premiered, saying that it was telling falsehoods about fracking and that it was somehow really a project of the oil companies, since some of the production funds came from Abu Dhabi.) The truth is that the movie isn't exactly about fracking. Fracking is discussed in depth, and some graphic examples are shown of its consequences. But that's not the be-all and end-all of the movie. Promised Land is about corporate power being used on a small rural town and how the locals deal with it. The corporation could be buying the land for fracking, or they could be using it for the original focus of the screenplay, wind power. Or they could just be leveling everything and building mini-malls and condos. Think of fracking as the MaGuffin here, not the real issue. The issue at hand is that Steve and Sue are able to hoodwink most of the town in short order into doing something that may or may not be good for the locals, and then must argue their case in public against Dustin, who is similarly using the locals for his own purposes. And in the end, when we find that Dustin is just an agent for Global, the plot becomes even clearer. As Dustin puts it, the town was never going to have a real choice here. In the end, the corporation has enough money and resources to get what it wants, regardless of how the locals feel. And even if Steve turns on the company and gets the locals to vote the corporation's wishes down, we know that they'll just turn to the next rural area down the road and get away with it there. (Which is something that Steve warns a protesting local official early on.)SPOILERS CONTINUE: But none of that describes what the problem is, or why the movie doesn't work in the end. The problem is rooted in a series of basic story shortcuts, which sacrifice integrity for the interesting twist. The movie tells us that Dustin is insincere by having him compete with Steve for the affection of a local woman, by having him show up the salespeople at the local karaoke bar, and by having him act in generally annoying ways. The movie has Dustin do a graphic demonstration of the effects of fracking in a school science class, while presenting the town with a graphic photo of his family's Nebraska farm after fracking had happened. But then the movie tells us that Dustin is lying about the photo by presenting Steve with evidence that the farm is in fact somewhere else. Before the viewer can fully absorb this, the film takes the next leap to show that Dustin is actually just another corporate agent for Global, placed in the town to make it easy for Steve and Sue to dismiss the environmental concerns and thus get the town to approve the corporation's presence. This would work, if it weren't for the fact that we've already seen Dustin do several things over and above what a real corporate agent would do in that case. If he was just there to be a false competitor, why would he go so far as to create a graphically convincing case for children in a school? Why would he spend so much time competing with Steve for the local woman? The answer is that he wouldn't – it's a false conflict. The twist works when you watch the movie and don't think about it. If you try to track it backwards, the movie begins to unravel. And the conclusion, with Steve suddenly turning on his bosses, is an odd one. The character we've seen throughout the movie knows that a local vote against Global will not stop them, and in fact may make the situation worse. It feels good to watch him do "the right thing", and yet the movie has already established that this is out of character for him and probably futile. There is also a minor issue that we are asked to believe that Hal Holbrook at age 88 is a local schoolteacher. We can believe him as a local gadfly, but it's a bit of a reach to think he's still teaching classes. And all of this is a shame because there's a genuinely good idea here: How does a small rural town deal with a Walmart or an Exxon or some other giant company moving in and taking over the area? How can the locals see past the sales pitch? There's also the matter of Gus Van Sant's skill with a camera and with casting. The look of this movie is quite good – it's really a pleasure to see the rural landscapes here and the local faces. But all of that is window dressing in the end – the heart of the movie is a good one but there's just not enough substance here to carry things over the finish line.Promised Land has been released simultaneously on Blu-ray and standard definition, as of April 23rd. The Blu-ray has everything from the standard DVD, and adds high definition picture and sound. The Blu-ray release includes the DVD release on a second disc within the packaging. Video Rating: 4.5/5 3D Rating: NA Promised Land is presented in a 1080p AVC 1.85:1 transfer (at an average 34 mbps) that shows off some lovely photography of the Pennsylvania locations. Scenes both by day and night, in rain and in shine, are full of detail and depth. Audio Rating: 4/5 Promised Land is presented in an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix in English (at an average 3.8 mpbs) that is a bit quieter overall than most mixes I've heard. Even the karaoke scenes don't really jump out. Most of the sound, as usual, is in the front speakers, but the music and some atmospheric material makes its way to the surrounds. The subdued nature of the mix is appropriate to the movie. A Spanish DTS 5.1 mix is also included on the disc. Special Features Rating: 1/5 The Blu-ray presentation of Promised Land doesn't have much by way of special features – just one extended scene and a short featurettte. The packaging also includes the DVD release. A digital copy is available online via pocket BLU or via a code included in the packaging.Extended Scene (1:52, 1080p) – This is just a minute more of an early corporate scene with Matt Damon in which the characters discuss the dissection of a frog. There's a direct parallel between salesman Steve's handling of the dissection matter and how he will handle the town locals, but it was likely a bit too on the nose.The Making of Promised Land (10:38, 1080p) – This ten minute featurette mostly features quick soundbites from Matt Damon and John Krasinski as well as producer Chris Moore. (Fans of Project Greenlight may be disappointed to hear that, as with the featurette on American Reunion last year, we don't get to see Moore throwing his weight around the set and yelling at Gus Van Sant, or better yet, Jeff Balis…) There's not a lot of substance here, just the usual mutual compliments. Matt Damon does have one good comment about Van Sant's reaction to his makeup. The problem here is that there's a lot more ground that could have been covered. As originally planned, Matt Damon was going to direct this movie. The movie was originally a Warner Bros. production but wound up in turnaround before landing with Focus Features. None of that material is mentioned here, and it's kind of crucial. No real discussion is had about the original story by Dave Eggers and what happened when it was rewritten by Krasinski and Damon. The featurette does discuss the fact that the movie was filmed on location in Pennsylvania and even includes short soundbites from some of the locals who appear in the movie. But one gets the feeling that a lot more could have been discussed. At the least, a commentary could have been done with the filmmakers. Alas, such was not the case.My Scenes – The usual Blu-ray bookmarking feature is available here, allowing the viewer to set their own bookmarks throughout the film.BD-Live - This Blu-ray includes access to Universal's BD-Live online site, allowing for the viewing of trailers online. pocket BLU – This Blu-ray includes the usual pocket BLU functionality, enabling viewers with appropriate laptop, iPad or smart phone integration to remotely control their Blu-ray player and access some of the bonus content from the separate device. DVD Copy – A second disc is included in the package, holding the standard DVD of the movie. It contains the movie presented in standard definition in an anamorphic 1.85:1 picture with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound in English (448 kbps) as well as the English DVS track. The extended scene and the featurette are included, in standard definition. There is also a Previews menu, offering trailers for multiple other DVDs.Digital Copy – Instructions are included in the packaging for obtaining a digital or Ultraviolet copy of the movie for your your laptop or portable device. Subtitles are available for the film and the featurette, in English, Spanish and French. A full chapter menu is available for the film. Overall Rating: 3/5 Promised Land is such an earnest film that you want it to be better than it is. It has appealing performances, solid direction by Gus Van Sant and a good idea at its core. It's just that the story falters and winds up taking too many easy shortcuts to achieve greatness. 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Mercito Gesta-Olusegun Ajose in Play For Late July
By Ryan Maquiñana
Mercito Gesta will return to the ring in late July at a venue to be determined in a 10-rounder against junior welterweight contender Olusegun Ajose, according to Gesta's manager, Vince Parra.
"We accepted the fight a couple weeks ago, and now they're working on the site, but everything looks set to go on our end," Parra told BoxingScene.com.
Gesta (26-1-1, 14 KOs) is coming off an unsuccessful lightweight world title challenge against Miguel Vazquez last December on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV undercard.
After the loss, he took some time off in his native Mandaue City, Philippines, before returning to San Diego, Calif., and making a change in his corner as he moves up in weight.
"He's working with his dad [Anecito Sr.] more on conditioning and training, and I'm sitting back and focusing more on the management side," Parra said. "I'm still going to be assistant trainer, but this is something he's always wanted as a kid, especially since his dad is now here from the Philippines. With him moving up to 140 [pounds], it's something he wanted to try out, and I support him 100 percent."
Gesta's father isn't the only addition to camp. Mercito's little brother Anecito Jr. (2-1), a junior lightweight, is set to make his American debut on May 24 against debutant Kenny McClain in San Diego.
"Mercito's really excited about his brother being here, too, and I think it's motivating him to work harder in the gym," Parra said.
Ajose (31-1, 14 KOs), from Lagos, Nigeria, bounced back from a 10th-round stoppage loss to Lucas Matthysse for an interim world title with a points victory over Rynell Griffin last month.
"I watched his fight with Matthysse," Parra said of Ajose. "He's a tough, strong guy. He's got decent skills, but at the same time, he's beatable."
As for Gesta, Parra is optimistic that his fighter's best days are ahead.
"Nobody's making any excuses for what happened in December. He's trying to put the past to rest, and it's a good opportunity," Parra said. "He's trying to get back in the mix to fight for a title. There's a lot of good fights at 140 and this is the quickest way back to the top. It's a new year and he's ready to come back out and surprise some people."
Ryan Maquiñana was the boxing producer for NBCOlympics.com during London 2012 and writes a weekly column for CSNBayArea.com. He is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the Ratings Panel for Ring Magazine. E-mail him at [email protected], check out his blog at Norcalboxing.net, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.
gesta is a ****ing BUM ....Comment by FilMor on 05-19-2013
the Filipino is going to get murdered, Ajose is underrated.Comment by MASTER1454 on 05-17-2013
[QUOTE=balintawak;13381368]OK, let's see if Gesta learns how to deal with pure boxers. I find that [B]the tone on this whole thread is very judgmental on a kid who had had experienced his first loss. The reason he has been garnishing…Comment by balintawak on 05-17-2013
[QUOTE=MASTER1454;13378852]^^^^^^^^^^All this, *sighs*. Quote me where I said anything that was "hater-like"? Do you or most people even know what "hate" really means? [B]It's means when a person knows that someone is good but [U]personally[/U] doesn't like them so they…Comment by Hougigo on 05-17-2013
[QUOTE=Cnota21;13381073]If Gesta wasnt so damn ****y and full of himself and took his fights seriously, i would like him more. Truth is he has a good punch, he is quick when he wants to be, and he has very good…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (39)


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Vandalism suspected in Dana Point gas leak
DANA POINT – A leak at a natural-gas facility that forced the evacuation of a nearby Denny's restaurant Sunday night was believed to be the result of vandalism, officials said.
The gas leak at the Southern California Gas Co.'s valve station in Dana Point appeared to have resulted from tubing that was deliberately severed, company spokeswoman Angela Fentiman said.
"At this point, we'll turn the investigation over to the Sheriff's Department," Fentiman said.
The leak was reported around 5 p.m. Sunday by someone who reported hearing a hissing sound, Orange County Fire Authority Battalion Chief Kris Concepcion said.
A Denny's restaurant at Del Obispo Street and Pacific Coast Highway, across the street from the station, was evacuated, Concepcion said.
Residents of nearby homes, including ones just behind the gas facility, were told to keep their windows and doors closed, Concepcion said.
The valve station, at 34271 Del Obispo St., serves as a junction for high-pressure gas lines that are converted to lower-pressure lines, Fentiman said.
Fentiman said the damage was to a "small line," but she declined to elaborate further, citing the ongoing investigation.
SoCal Gas inspectors determined the cause of the leak around 7:30 p.m. Sunday and shut off the damaged line, Fentiman said.
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The blog of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Video from the Wednesday's panel on "How News Companies Can Change" at WeMedia with Jennifer Carroll, Gannett; Neil Budde, Daily Me; Jan Schaffer, J-Lab; Solana Larsen, Global Voices:
And highlights from Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen's Thursday's WeMedia conversation with Allison Fine:
Thoughts on any of the points the speakers raise?
Bill Mitchell posted on Poynter this morning (full post):
As more than 200 staffers of the Rocky Mountain News got the painful news that their paper would close Friday, a similarly sized group at the We Media conference was listening to the Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibarügen describe some of what's emerging to replace the fading established media.
But he began with a discussion of what's being lost, and pegged it to geography: "For the first time in the history of the republic, the delivery of news and information is not happening in the same space as democracy."
Unless somebody can devise a sustainable geographic model for journalism, he argued, the United States needs to figure out "how to structure democracy in a different way not rooted in geography."
Read the entire post here.
Online applications for the Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest to fund the best art ideas in South Florida, are due March 2nd (apply here.)
Last year, Knight Foundation awarded $8 million to 31 groups ' such as sculptors, musicians, prominent institutions and recently formed galleries.
There are three rules (more explanation in the FAQ):
1. The idea is about arts.
2. The project takes place in or benefits South Florida.
3. You find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant.
More in this CBS4 article and the below video by Sam Rega and Josh Miller:
Questions? After reading the FAQ, please leave a comment below.
Last week at the Knight Information Needs of Communities media learning seminar, Roberta King of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation (one of the winners of the Knight Community Information Challenge--here's the full list of winners, and Grand Rapids will establish four neighborhood news bureaus as part of their winning grant--interviewed Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen.
You can follow Grand Rapids Community Foundation on their @GRCitizenNews Twitter account.
Entrepreneur Susan Mernit attended last week's media learning seminar on information needs of communities, leading a breakout session, and has graciously written a white paper called "The Social Media ToolBox" for all community foundations thinking about the best ways to include social media.
You can find "The Social Media Toolbox" white paper (pdf) in the resources on the infoneeds.org site; more video from the gathering in the event blog.
Jorge Martinez is Director of Information Systems at Knight Foundation. Below, he writes about Elevate America and Knight's role in funding this project starting in 2007.
In 2007, Knight Foundation provided $250,000 to support a digital literacy program begun by the City of Miami. Elevate Miami was designed to help the elderly and young in our city's underserved populations acquire the technology skills necessary to be an engaged citizen in today's world.
Knight funded Elevate Miami's Rites of Passage program. A collaboration between the City and Miami-Dade Public Schools, it provides the families of 6th graders that maintain high academic standards throughout the school year and pass technology skills training, with a new computer and access to the Internet. The program awarded new computers to 600 families in 2008.
At yesterday's US Conference of Mayors meeting, Elevate Miami was singled out as a national role model for how public-private partnerships can work to bridge the digital divide in our cities, with Microsoft announcing a new program that will provide software and technology training materials to local governments and non-profits, to replicate the success of Miami's program on a national scale, titled Elevate America.
Knight Foundation created the Knight Center of Digital Excellence to provide convenient, affordable, high-speed access - and its corresponding benefits in education, healthcare, economic development and government access to our communities. We welcome Microsoft's entry, and look forward to building upon the work begun in Miami-Dade, by accelerating the adoption of digital literacy skills necessary to make our vision a reality.
What do you think about Elevate America?
Facilitator: Mayur Patel, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Scribe: LuAnn Lovlin, The Winnipeg Foundation
Information and Digital Media
Citizens require relevant, contextual and authentic information to run their lives and to manage their communities. Information can also be a creative and powerful tool for achieving social change. But how do we evaluate whether our media and communications projects make a difference in the world, how do we make our projects more effective and how can we learn lessons for the future? These questions formed the main part of the discussion during the breakout session.
Information and communications projects cover a wide variety of activities, including TV, radio and film, telecommunications-based projects, broadcast campaigns and web-based projects.
In evaluating the progress and impact of these activities, our approach should be guided with the end user in mind (ordinary citizens, communities, organizations or policymakers); be inclusive of all participants and contain credible and accurate information.
Our Challenge
There are several practical difficulties involved in evaluating the impact of information and communications projects.
Understanding Social Change
During the breakout session, participants discussed how to adapt traditional logic models to the area of information and digital media, namely: a) how to conceptualise the linkages between outputs, intermediate and final outcomes, and b) what leading indicators reveal whether a project is on track to achieve success. Depending on the particular project these might include:
Tracking Online Behavior
The discussion about outputs and activities focused on the need to capture online patterns of behavior. Increasingly media projects make use of web-based technologies and social media tools, which provide us with the opportunity to track a variety of indicators of people's behavior. These include:
Organizations can use several free online tools and statistical packages to capture and analyse these indicators, including Google Analytics, Woopra (especially useful for less trafficked websites, such as blogs) and CrazyEgg, among others. However, measuring clickstream data does not capture people's levels of engagement and does not provide insights into why members of a community are using a website, are they completing what they set out to do and are they satisfied? For this qualitative data is important. Here a few tools have emerged, which allow organizations to survey their website visitors, e.g. 4Q. The next step, understanding whether, and how, levels of online engagement lead to offline action in communities remains an ongoing challenge.
What have we learned so far?
At the close of the session, four principles were highlighted to guide evaluations of information and communications projects:
This entry was originally posted on the infoneeds.org site along with other posts about the event that concluded yesterday.
At the closing session, Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen asked three of the Community Information Challenge winners (see the full list) to speak about their grants.
Minneapolis Community Foundation:
San Antonio Area Foundation:
Community Foundation of Greater South Wood:
Congratulations to all the winners.
This entry was originally posted on the infoneeds.org blog for the Miami seminar on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Find more on the site; the seminar continues until this afternoon.
Moderated by Paula Ellis, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Knight Foundation, three community foundation leaders shared their experiences.
Andrea Baz'n of the Triangle Community Foundation talked about balancing history and future with community foundation strategy:
Josie Heath of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County talked about a shared future if not a shared past:
Paula Ellis talked about the current conversations about journalism in service to history:
An audience member talked about the upcoming launch of the game Ruby's Bequest about community and donorship:
Emmett Carson of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation talked about ageism and its detrimental effects:
And all the panelists talked about where their leadership journey has taken them:
Comments or thoughts for the panelists or other attendees?
This was first posted on the event site, infoneeds.org. Find more video and previous posts there. The event continues until this afternoon.
Last night, Kati London and Kevin Slavin of the serious game development firm area/code talked about how games can change how we live in the real world.
Kevin talked about the "fundamental cognitive shift" games have produced:
He also talked about the role of games in culture in response to an audience question:
and making games social:
Katie presented three projects addressing specific information needs, including this one, called "Ant City":
And Kevin reminded everyone that games have to be fun:
What did you think about the panel?
From the infoneeds.org blog for the Information Needs event today and tomorrow in Miami, video from this afternoon's session with media experts Amy Webb, Bryan Alexander, and Richard Cardran below.
Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group was part of an afternoon panel on current trends in media.
Here she talks about why not to just go by demographics when evaluating the potential audience:
And fellow panelist Bryan Alexander on how to deal with disinformation and use media to draw the community together:
Richard Cardran, Bryan, and Amy on how to find staff to implement media strategy:
This is Amy Webb's presentation link; links from other panelists will be listed in the comments later.
200 representatives from community foundations have gathered in Miami today for the Media Learning Seminar on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.
More video and images will be available over the next few days. From the keynote session at noon, some video below from Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen and Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", just spoke about her new book, The Breakthrough: Politics in the Age of Obama.
Gwen Ifill on how she sees her role:
Gwen Ifill on how she felt about the criticism before the debate:
Alberto Ibarügen on the citizen power of digital access:
On Friday, this year's Knight News Challenge review team met in Miami to review the finalists. The esteemed group spent the entire day in heated discussions, debating the merits of the vetted proposals (this is a different group than the News Challenge screeners that met twice earlier in the contest cycle).
Look for more news on this blog, in the @knightfdn and @knc08 Twitter streams, and on the News Challenge site. Exciting details to come--
How do you think news entrepreneurs should be supported? USC Annenberg thinks a new boot camp is one way (deadline to apply: February 16).
There are a few days left to apply for the upcoming News Entrepreneur Boot Camp May 16-21, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA at USC Annenberg; independent entrepreneur Susan Mernit asks USC Annenberg's Vikki Porter about their upcoming News Entrepreneur Boot Camp.
Deadline February 16, 2009 (apply here)
What do you think news entrepreneurs need to be successful? Would you apply to be of this book camp? Why or why not?
Last night, Knight Foundation sponsored the Shorty Awards (#shorty), which recognized notable users of the popular micro-blogging service Twitter at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York. (Knight press release)
Some of the highlights in the video below:
Congratulations to the winners.
How do you do think Twitter and other micro-content services could be used for innovative projects delivering news and information?
You can leave a comment below or tweet @knightfdn.
Last night, four films showing possible futures for Charlotte, North Carolina were screened at six different area locations as part of Crossroads Charlotte, a project funded by Knight.
Justin Ruckman blogged:
Writer Alan Moore famously said in the Watchmen that the best way to engage your audience in a piece of fiction was to start out with the most tragic thing you could imagine. And Crossroads Charlotte: The Movie did just that. Starting with a scenario entitled Fortress Charlotte, gang members were involved in a drive-by shooting, an eight-year old girl was checked for weaponry via metal detector and an Iraq war veteran was denied entry into a homeless shelter ' in the first few minutes. Ouch.
I never thought I would know what it would be like to live in Detroit, but now I think I do.
At the end of the pain, actual stats about city problems were displayed as we transitioned into the next scenario, lending creedence to the possibility of such a world coming to fruition. A trend that continued between each scenario.
The six locations were connected by video before the film; after the film, the audience discussed the different outcomes for the city and passed the microphone. Tonya Jameson has more on her blog.
The new CrossroadsCharlotte.com also launched last night, and has ways for community members to post events and stay in touch:
Congrats to the Crossroads Charlotte team on the site launch; what questions do you have on the possible future scenarios for Charlotte?
Larry "Bud" Meyer retired February 1st after fourteen years at Knight Foundation. You can find more about his accomplishments on his retirement announcement. He is board chairman of the Communications Network, a national nonprofit with 324 members dedicated to promoting strategic communications in U.S. philanthropy.
We miss him here in the office and wanted to send birthday wishes his way, so we made a short video:
Happy Birthday, Bud!
Editor's note: Knight Wichita Program Director Anne Corriston writes about recent recognition of the PACES program that Knight has funded.
Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer recognized Knight Foundation's workforce development project, PACES, in his State of the City address on January 27.
Image by Michael Kinard.
PACES, Preparation for Aviation/Advanced Career Employment System, is managed by the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas. The goal is to connect low-income, low-skilled people to higher paying careers at local aviation companies and their suppliers. The economic downturn our aviation companies are currently experiencing means we are expanding the PACES model to include the health care industry.
Knight's initial investment in PACES has led to other grants, including one from the City of Wichita. The PACES program team will work with community-based organizations to provide remedial learning, skills assessment, and coaching to participants.
It's a project with a long view ' moving people from marginal jobs with low pay to better-paying jobs that offer benefits and opportunities to advance their careers. We will learn much along the way and will share our findings as we go.


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Photos/Weights: McWilliams, McJoe Arroyo Hit The Scale
MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO - The boxing twins, McWilliams and McJoe Arroyo, had no issues with the official weigh-in for their bouts on the card "Future Champions", to be held tomorrow, Saturday, at the Palace of Sports and Recreation in Mayaguez. Another edition of "Solo Boxeo Tecate," which airs on Telefutura, in a presentation of PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP).
McWilliams Arroyo (11-1, 9 KOs), now the Latino flyweight champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and ranked number 13 worldwide in the state, came in at 111 pounds for his bout against Mexican Rigoberto Casillas (8-6-1 , 6 KOs), who scored 113 lbs. The fight will be a 10 round bout and at flyweight.
Meanwhile, McJoe Arroyo (10-0, 5 KOs) weighed in at 114 pounds and now will face last-minute rival Miguel "Samurai" Del Valle (8-17, 2 KOs), who scored 111 pounds for his six round fight at flyweight (115 pounds).
Tickets for this event are on sale at Ticketcenter by calling 787 792-5000 or by accessing www.tcpr.com. Prices are $ 15 General Admission, $ 25 and $ 40 "Ringside".
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