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On November 20th 2008, nearly 100 participants from several regions of the United States and from Denmark, Norway and Ireland as well attended a one-day conference at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
focused on the pressing topic: "Consumer Revolution on the Web: Opportunities and Dangers for Journalism." Co-sponsored by Columbia Journalism Review and Consumer Reports, the gathering featured a lineup of distinguished experts and journalists from mainstream media and online media who presented their views and experineces in various forms. These included case studies, panel discussions and a keynote address. Senior staff from Columbia Journalism Review and Consumer Reports served as moderators and helped advance the dialogue between the speakers and the attendees.
The conference was designed to address questions about how professional journalists should cover consumer issues at a time when big-name bloggers, online vigilantes, and anonymous user-reviewers have turned word-of-mouth into a powerful weapon and traditional consumer reporters are falling victim to budget cuts. Questions included: how are peer-to-peer opinion leaders using their influence? How should journalists cover them-or even work with them to effect change? And what is the future of consumer reporting in areas such as business, healthcare, economics, politics and law?
The conference was the first, as far as conference organizers could determine, to bring together many of the key players to address the impact of the "consumer revolution" on consumer reporting. Speakers from Consumer's Union, The New York Times, USA Today.com, NPR, CNN, WNYC radio, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Media Bloggers Association, Consumerist.org and a number of other pioneering consumer Web sites
addressed the conference.
Welcome and Introduction
Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, opened the conference by saying that it was an "attempt to grapple" with issues in consumer journalism. He called the Web a "liberating and disruptive
technology," that was helping to change the traditional roles of professional opinion versus the so-called "wisdom of the crowd." There is now an unfortunate distrust of the former, and of journalists generally, he said. Although the public should not be "starry-eyed" about professional consumer criticism, the "many-to-many model" and "open mic operation" of social media does not suffice either. "[Journalists] are still in the business of ordering the world for people," he said. Lemann then introduced Jim Guest, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Consumers Union.
Guest explained that Consumer Union's mission has three parts: testing products and evaluating services; getting that information to the public; and advocating for consumer protection in Washington, D.C. and, "increasingly," state houses around the country. He said that "systemic change" is the goal and pointed to accomplishments that Consumers Union has made relating to cigarettes, car seats, seatbelts, and SUV rollover standards.
Given the changes in consumer reporting and information, Consumers Union is currently facing two challenges, Guest continued. The first is finding the right business model: he said it was "shrewd judgment or good luck" that led Consumer Reports to charge for online subscriptions, an approach that has not worked well for many traditional media outlets. The second is concern about moving away from testing in order to beef up information distribution via podcasting, mobile devices, and the Web. Consumers Union is striving for a "more interactive" relationship with consumers. It has mobilized a network of 700,000 "e-activists" around the country. Consumer Union's stature gives it a competitive advantage: its annual questionnaire is likely the second largest survey in the country next to the United States Census, Guest said.
Keynote Speech: A Reviewer Reviews the Users
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, an Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CBS News's Sunday Morning, delivered the conference's keynote speech, "A Professional Reviewer Reviews the Users." Pogue began by explaining that the biggest advantage of the Web over traditional media is not the expanded user feedback, but rather that users themselves are beginning to be the source of content. He cited a number of popular social networking and user-generated information Web sites, many of which had sold shortly after their creation for extravagant sums. These included giants like Facebook, YouTube, Prosper, Kiva, GoLoco, E-Petitions, and Who is Sick? It's almost illogical, Pogue said, when referring to Wikipedia, that a user-edited encyclopedia should be so accurate: "It just doesn't seem like it should work, does it?" he mused. But, of course, it does, he asserted. Pogue said that, according to Technorati, seventy-five blogs are created every minute. Although most of them are probably never used after their creation, he said, "This is the new status quo; it is expected you will have a voice on the Web."
There has been institutional resistance among traditional media outlets toward using the full potential of the Web, Pogue said. His early efforts at Web reporting for The New York Times were an example of that resistance.
Editors were reluctant to invest in videos, graphics and blogs; there was poor interactivity and Pogue received very little feedback on his work. The paper's mentality was that such efforts did not sell ads and generate
revenue, but Pogue argued that they would "improve the brand." Then the Times "opened it up … and everything changed." The Times added a comments section under blog posts, for example, and Pogue received 1,335 comments over the first weekend.
Citing the value of "instant feedback," Pogue then returned to his main point about user-generated reviews, showing a slide of stampeding buffalo that drew laughs from the crowd. He then listed a number of Web sites that
review everything from consumer electronics, to doctors, to cars, to boyfriends. One of the best, he said, is the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com), which includes user reviews of movies. This is where the illogical becomes logical. Even if there are a few "jerks" and bad reviews, they will be marginalized by the thousands of reviewers chiming in. "The cumulative wisdom will steer you in the right direction," Pogue said. Yet there are still poorly managed comment and review sites, he added, citing YouTube as one example. But the advantages of social media are clear. Even in the case of fake reviews and businesses trying to "game the system" for their own benefit, Pogue said, "the real stuff greatly overwhelms the bogus stuff." And innovations that address these problems keep coming, Pogue explained. TripAdvisor, for example, is a Web site where "you can search and
sort not just for how good a hotel is, but for how good it is for your kind of person." Pogue also cited Shopping.com, where consumers are not only able to search for the cheapest products, but for the cheapest products from reliable vendors. "There are technological solutions to a lot of this stuff," he said.
None of this, however, means that professional reviewers are obsolete, Pogue cautioned. One of the advantages of full time critics is that consumers can get to "know his tastes," he said, adding that he and his wife "steer their
ship" by a New York Times film critic whom they think is reliably wrong about children's movies. When it comes to the relationship between professional and amateur consumer reporters, Pogue said, there has not been
as much displacement as most people think. Most user reviews are simply "add-on," he said. Plus, he added, there are inherent problems with user reviews, which tend to be self-selecting for people who have had particularly bad experiences with a product or service. This is known as the "Squeaky Wheel Syndrome." And no matter how hard we try, there will always be some gaming of the system, Pogue warned, citing Microsoft's practice of sending laptops to reviewers and asking them to "dispose of them as they saw fit" when finished. Of course, most kept them, so the practice amounted to a form of payola. It is also easy to disseminate false, but incredibly damaging, rumors about products and services anonymously on the Web.
Pogue closed by calling for the development of a "Code of Ethics" among user review Web sites: take responsibility for words and comments you allow; when you believe that someone is unfairly attacking another, take action; and do not allow anonymous comments. Pogue noted that this has worked at many Web sites and that, employing another technological innovation, some sites now allow reviewers to review each other and the quality of comments, so that only the best rise to the top of the page.
Panel Discussion: Are Consumers the Right Watchdogs?
After Pogue finished, Kevin McKean, the vice president and editorial director of Consumer Reports, took the stage to moderate a five-person panel discussion on the question, "Are Consumers the Right Watchdogs?" McKean
started by noting that the "financial collapse" has made consumer reporting and protection issues "even more timely." He then introduced Mike Hoyt, the executive editor of Columbia Journalism Review, who outlined a three-part package in the September/October 2008 issue of the magazine called "The Rise and Fall - and Rise - of Consumer Journalism." The authors of the three articles - Evan Cornog, David Cay Johnston and Trudy Lieberman — all took part in the conference. (The articles can be found at www.cjr.org )
Turning back to the panel, McKean posed a question to Trudy Lieberman, who is a consumer affairs and health reporter and author of the CJR article, "How the Press Fueled the Birth and the Decline of the Consumer Movement."
McKean asked about the "heyday" of that movement forty years ago. Addressing the decline instead, Lieberman said that, "The business community killed the Consumer Movement." She advised that as journalists think about the changes happening in consumer reporting, they think about "our economic system and what is allowed in it." She said that the decline of the Consumer Movement was a "graphic" demonstration that with the business community, "you can only go so far in reporting on serious malfunctions in the system." In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the business community "said 'enough,'" and began to organize against groups like the Michigan Consumers' Council. When those folded, consumers lost protections being enacted at the state level.
Right now, we are trying to figure out how far the mix of professional and crowd reporting can go, Lieberman said, and we should think about the "tension between education and regulation" that exist on the Internet. The
business community wants to simply educate consumers to be "better buyers," according to Lieberman, who thinks that that is not enough and that the system needs more regulation and oversight of business. "We gone from a Consumer Movement to Consumerism," Lieberman said. She defined Consumerism as the art and act of buying, but also as a celebration of shopping and the belief that it will fix economic problems. Yet now the marketplace is even more complex, from personal electronics, to credit instruments, to "hidden stuff" in our foods. "We need a Consumer Movement more than ever right now," Lieberman said, adding that the challenge will be "finding a home for this movement on the Internet" and moving away from the "herd mentality" of user reviews. She disagrees, to some extent, with the "wisdom of the crowds" and is a "Consumer Reports person at heart" who believes in the value of expert opinion, especially when it comes to things like healthcare. She thinks we need to translate the long-form journalism of traditional media to the Web in a way that will replace some of the "constraints on business" lost to deregulation.
McKean then introduced Bob Garfield, a columnist for Ad Age magazine, host of National Public Radio's On the Media, and creator of Comcast Must Die, a Web site devoted to letting customers "vent their grievances" against the company. Garfield then told the story of how he'd been receiving "horrendous," yet "run-of-the-mill" service from Comcast, so he decided to write about it at work under the headline, "Comcast Must Die." "Nobody read my AdAge blog until that day," Garfield said. He had so much feedback that he decided to create a Web site under the same name. "Evidently, I touched a nerve," he said. Now, a year later, he is "amazed" that the site has been able to hold Comcast's attention and generate positive change. Garfield says that he now has "the most delicious cable service in the United States of America." Yet the more Comcast has tried to appease him - the more it has tried to "smear grease on the squeaky wheel" - the angrier he has became. Garfield pointed to BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis, who was sitting in the audience, and credited him founding that approach with a blog post on his site titled, "Dell Sucks."
McKean then turned to David Cay Johnston, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author of the article in CJR's package on consumer reporting entitled, "The New Consumer Vigilantes and Why They Matter." With the rise of amateur reporting, McKean asked, "What's going to happen to investigative reporting - the muckraking journalism of the 20th Century?" Johnston immediately replied that he thinks there is more investigative reporting now than there was four years ago, even at small and medium-sized papers. "Clearly the financial model of newspapers is being destroyed by the Internet," he said, "but readership has been rising tremendously." And people are very well informed these days, but it's true that "there is unbelievable pressure" on news organizations. To compete in the market, they need to do a better job of "telling people that which they do not know" and "stop listening to company PR people." In particular, he said information that is useful to small businesses is rare, and that newspapers tend to ignore small, but important, stories like the excessive surcharges that banks are imposing on debit-card holders. McKean chimed in to say that he's noticed that "power follows the money" and considerations for advertisers, one of the only revenue sources available on the Web, can outweigh editorial decisions.
McKean then introduced Ben Popken, the editor of Consumerist, a citizen-journalist Web site covering a wide variety of consumer issues, products, and services. McKean noted that Consumerist, which is only two-and-a-half years old, gets roughly 15 million page views a month whereas Consumer Reports' Web site gets only 5 million. But he wanted to know if independent sites and blogs such as Popken's follow a code of ethics and do
"actual reporting." Popken said that Consumerist offers "a panoply of information," from breaking stories, to tips and insider confessions from company employees. It publishes 18-24 stories per day, 95 percent of which originate from reader tips. One of the most successful user-generated stories was one about "shrinking" products at grocery stores. Readers sent in before-and-after pictures from supermarkets around the country as companies downsized their wares. As popular as Consumerist has been, however, Popken noted that the site is for sale. "It's hard to survive on an advertising revenue model," he said, because Consumerist doesn't "pull any punches" in its reviews.
McKean turned next to Harry McCracken, a former editor at PC World magazine and now the founder and editor of Technologizer, a new Web site and community about personal technology. McKean asked why McCracken had made the shift from "old to new media," and if new media could fill the shoes of the old. McCracken responded that he disliked being an editor at PC World because it did not allow him to think, report, and write. What he likes about online publishing is that he can do all of that and didn't need a lot of start up capital, a large staff, a circulation desk, or administrators. "I deeply believe that the Web is an equal-opportunity newsstand," he said, "and if your content is compelling people will find it and you'll do well. And if it's not compelling, nobody is going to read it whether you're a big company or an individual."
The conversation then opened up among the panelists with McKean, following up on McCracken's point, asking whether or not good journalism would always rise to a place of prominence on the Web. The panelists agreed that that would depend on whether or not traditional news outlets find a sustainable business model for online publication. Johnston and McCracken were optimistic, but Garfield said the model would "never" come. There was some discussion of micro financing a partial, but perhaps inadequate, solution.
McKean opened the floor to questions. Bill Sobel of SobelMedia, a digital media connections company, told Garfield a story about how he'd met a Comcast executive at a urinal and complained of his parents' poor service. The next day a truck arrived at his parents' home to fix the problem. Garfield replied that his site, Comcast Must Die, is "a string of 40,000 urinals," on the Web. Then Jeff Jarvis stood up to ask McKean if he and Consumer Reports considered Popken and Consumerist to be their competition. McKean replied that by sheer size, Consumer Reports was a much bigger operation, with 100 journalists and 150 product testers. Ultimately, though, the two publications are operating on different business models. The decision in 1997 to make Consumer Reports' Web site pay-only was "gutsy to say the least," McKean said, "but it as turned out to be phenomenally correct." Since then, Consumer Reports' site has grown to 3.2 million subscribers. "The pay model is actually viable," McKean said.
Before concluding, the panel turned to brands. Some thought they were "obsolete," but others argued that only their nature had changed; in particular, it is now possible to build and/or destroy a brand much more rapidly than in the past. The conclusion of the conversation seemed to be that there is room for professional and amateur consumer reporting in some areas to exist symbiotically (with certain exceptions in critical markets like healthcare).
Case Studies 1 & 2
Gayle Williams, an associate editor at Consumer Reports, took the stage next to introduce two speakers to present case studies. The first was Steve Rubel, vice president at Edelman and author of the PR industry blog, MicroPersuasion, who laid out six trends in the blogosphere:
1) "The Cut-and-Paste Web," by which consumers demand access to information anytime, anywhere via mobile devices. "If you don't go where they are," Rubel said, "you'll never be relevant in their lives."
2) "The Attention Crash," by which individuals now have access to far more information than they are capable of processing.
3) "Digital Curation," by which there is a growing role and need for information "curators" online that can find, sort, and display, as Rubel put it, "what's art and what's junk."
4) "The Numerati," by which traditional media, entrepreneurs, and PR companies can "mine" the Web for data and use analytical tools to more effectively build "media properties." Data on reader and audience interests is underutilized, Rubel said. But whether or not using such information results in "a better editorial product is a very big debate."
5) "Collaboration," by which the "Web is not just a platform for communication, but for action; it's a place where stuff gets done." There are many levels of engagement with audiences: from open to controlled, from
communicative to collaborative.
6) "Hacker Journalists," by which there has been a rise of programmers in the newsroom who are familiar with Web site management and digital media operations. They are "cross-trained in programming and journalism," Rubel
said and are well worth hiring.
Diane Farsetta, senior researcher at The Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch.org and producer of their "No Fake News" campaign, delivered the next case study on "exposing the spin" online. The Web's first problem is
anonymity, Farsetta said, because "it makes it easier to misrepresent your identity." She then listed a number of seemingly independent Web sites that were, in fact, created by business groups with a vested interest in swaying
consumer opinion. These included RottenAcorn.com, UnionFacts.com, FishScam.com, and The Center for Consumer Freedom.
Though not necessarily involved in those sites, companies ranging from Burger King, to Sony, to Wal-Mart have misrepresented themselves online. The Web also connects marketers to bloggers, Farsetta continued. PayPerPost.com, for examples, pays bloggers to place reviews on various Web sites. These are similar to Video News Releases (also known as VNRs) put out by PR firms, which some broadcast outlets misrepresent as original, unbiased reporting. If such practices are going to become more common, Farsetta argued, they should be clearly labeled as "sponsored reviews" or pre-packaged news.
Some companies, such as Ford, Dove, Kraft, Crystal Lite, and ConAgra, have created their own online communities, which offer product tips, finders, and a lot of publicity information. But if you read their privacy policies, Farsetta said, you will see that the companies are collecting and sharing your personal information as you participate in their communities. Even the United States Department of Defense's regional command centers have hired journalists and created their own "news" sites. "There is a lot of blurring of roles," Farsetta said, "a lot of uncharted territory, and a lot of vested interests taking advantage of that grey area." Reporters, she concluded,
must work to raise "online media literacy."
Panel Discussion: The New Age of Citizen Journalism
After a brief lunch break, the conference resumed with a panel moderated by CJR publisher Evan Cornog titled, "The New Age of Citizen Journalism: 'Can't We All Just Get Along?'" The two-member panel included Jeff Jarvis, a media and news blogger for the Web site BuzzMachine and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York, and John Darton, who worked as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times for over forty years. Cornog asked each man to "lay out the case for the other side," with Jarvis touting traditional media and Darnton digital media.
Jarvis began by saying that "old media has to update itself… but the point of that is to carry over the value of journalism" to new media. Likewise, Darnton said he had learned a lot, especially during the presidential campaign, about new media. Both men agreed that each operation has its place. Darnton said that traditional media is like a "spine" and new media "fills" in the gaps. "We're in a good position now," he said. "What I worry about is the future and the possibility we'll go online only." Both agreed that the term "citizen journalist" isn't a good one because journalism and information should be judged upon their own merits and not upon job titles.
Cornog asked if the professional news media are "under attack" and mistrusted. Jarvis replied that stories are becoming "more of a process" rather than a one-time, one-way explanation. Jarvis cited the example of Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, who pioneered the act of publishing "half-baked posts" in which reporters lay out what they know and what they don't, and then ask readers to contribute their own intelligence. That approach can be very useful in consumer reporting, he said, citing the example of The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC Radio, which mobilized its audience to report back on the price of food items around New York City. The input from listeners created a valuable database. Out of such mobilization "come new efficiencies and new business structures," Jarvis said.
Darnton agreed with Cornog that, "Somewhere journalism got a bad name." The first indication that amateur reporters were picking up the slack for professional news, in his opinion, was the Rodney King beating in 1991.
Newspapers need to find a business model for such Web reporting that will allow them to stay current, Darnton said. He cited VoiceofSanDiego.com and MinnPost.com as good examples of traditional journalism start-ups on the
Web, but cautioned that their business models "aren't replicable everywhere," and that those operations are still very limited. Jarvis chimed in to add ProPublica to the list of start-ups doing traditional journalism on the Web.
Jarvis said that at a recent event at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism, students looked for a news business model for online reporting. One of the unique positions that they came up with was that of "community manager," a
person whose fulltime job would be to integrate citizen reporting into the site. He said that traditional media outlets should be more willing to experiment and share the results of those experiments. "There is no time to lose," he said. Jarvis added that he is confident that there is still market demand for professional, investigative reporting, but that the journalism industry is still transforming into an undetermined size, scale, and shape. There will probably be a smaller core of journalists at the center, and news outlets will be more collaborative. He also noted that startup outlets "won't be able to access big amounts of capital anymore. Darnton agreed, saying that advertising revenue is "particularly tricky" right now, charity funding is unreliable, government funding almost out of the question, and
subscription revenue is unsustainable.
Darnton said there is a misperception of professional journalists as being "up on Mt. Olympus," rendering thumbs-up, thumb-down verdicts," when in fact they are there to "enhance the experience for the user." He also said he favors large news operations because they have the money to pay for revenue-losing operations such as investigations. Amateur operations could not do that, he said. On the other hand, Jarvis pointed to citizen-generated
Web sites in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean Tsunami that provided valuable, highly localized information about safety, rescue, and support operations. Relying on amateur reporting does not always work out
during emergencies, however, Jarvis noted. After the bombing of the London Underground, one of the first citizen reports said incorrectly that there had been a power blackout. But with so many camera phones on the ground,
Jarvis concluded, news outlets must find ways to motivate and educate audiences and pay a professional to manage that community.
Case Studies 3 & 4
For the final case studies session, Columbia Journalism School professor, CJR contributor, and New Republic music critic David Hajdu introduced two men "whose work "illuminates how the very nature of journalism is changing."
The first to speak was Robert Cox, president of the Media Blogger Association (MBA), whose case discussed increasing legal threats to bloggers and resources at their disposal. The MBA provides legal resources, helps
arrange blogger press passes, and provides media liability insurance, among other services. Cox told the previously undisclosed story of a blogger and Huffington Post contributor who had called the MBA when she found out she was being sued for defamation. The blogger had wrongly reported that a schoolmistress had been charged in a sexual abuse case. When the blogger called Cox, however, she seemed defensive and complained that the schoolmistress had not called her to correct the mistake, so she had done nothing wrong. Cox believes the case against the blogger has been dropped. But misunderstandings are "very typical of the bloggers I've talked to," he said. "They don't have any understanding of the laws that relate to what they're doing." That's not always the case, Cox added, but blogs clearly have the power for "transformative good" or "great harm."
Cox then described the MBA's history and work. It was founded in 2004 as a "mutual defense pact" for bloggers, who have "inherent legal and operational risks." Though they're often one-person or small operations, they are just
as exposed as any major media company. Cox said that blogs took off in earnest four years ago, and lawsuits "immediately followed." The MBA has been involved in over 400 cases. The vast majority have been defamation
cases, like the blogger from Wisconsin, but there have also been a number of privacy and copyright violations. Sectors like pharmaceuticals, real estate, and government "tend to be" the most litigious. "But the good news is that
bloggers mostly win," Cox said. Thirty-five percent of cases "go away," and bloggers win 92 percent of judgments and settlements. But the cost of defense has been going up and settlements have been as high as $20 million.
The MBA has a multi-faceted response to this trend. It offers education and training, and partnered with the Poynter Institute and News University to create an online media law course. It also provides a hotline, tips and
referrals. It created the first-of-its-kind media liability insurance that covers defamation, invasion of privacy and
copyright infringement that is cheaper than market rate. The MBA also provides peer-to-peer support networks.
Delivering the second case was Brian Lehrer, a Peabody Award-winning WNYC radio journalist and host of the The Brian Lehrer Show, who talked about some of his recent "crowd sourcing" projects. Lehrer said that as host, he is less interested in telling listeners "what he thinks" than in "starting a conversation." One of his core principles, he said, is to "foster democracy." One of his first crowd sourcing projects was to solicit information from listeners in order to create a map of New York City showing what percentage of cars parked on various blocks were SUVs. It "didn't break any news," Lehrer said, but it engaged the audience and he was able to peg a
number of on-air segments to the SUV map.
The next project, again based on the creation of a map, was called "Are You Being Gouged," and asked listeners to report the prices of typical food items (lettuce, milk, beer, etc.) at their local markets. Here, Lehrer said, they ran into "one of the problems with crowd sourcing." When his team fact-checked some the outlier prices (i.e. excessively high or low), they all turned out to be wrong. Nevertheless, with 450 people participating, his program did get a lot of valuable mileage from this crowd-sourcing exercise. The show was able to frame a couple on-air segments around the map (people "talked about it for months"), and they were able to discern some pricing patterns and discuss issues like the difference between independent markets and supermarkets. After that, Lehrer asked listeners to help develop a quantitative and qualitative assessment of Bill Clinton's monetary value to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Lehrer also asked his audience to help scour the records of her activities as First Lady. It was too much for his staff to handle, he said, and to improve efficiency he advised listeners to review only the week of their birthday. After that, Lehrer did a more whimsical piece where people contributed their workday "nap strategies."
All these projects were "moderate successes, more interesting than revelatory," Lehrer said. But they helped lay the groundwork for the show's "30 Issues in 30 Days" series focused on the fall 2008 presidential election campaign. "No matter what "breaking news" was happening in the campaign on a given day, the idea, as Lehrer put it, was to create a "safe space" for the issues to be explored in depth. This was to make sure his program did
not get totally caught up in the more typical horserace coverage of the mainstream media leaving serious issues of consequence neglected. Listeners played an active and important role in creating the "30 Issues in 30 Days"
series. Lehrer encouraged listeners to send in their ideas of issues to be discussed, and experts to address particular issues. The show created online wikis for listeners to comment on six of the issues and suggest angles of exploration. The quantity of participation was very low, Lehrer said, but the quality of what listeners helped produce was very high. Yet for all that, Lehrer concluded, they've been "dabbling at the surface" of what's possible. The trick is to find opportunities for audience collaboration that will be "journalistically meaningful." One thing they've thought of, for example, would be crowd-sourced information about construction sites, accidents and safety.
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of Your Audience
The last panel of the day, moderated by Marc Perton, executive editor of online media at Consumer Reports, was titled, "Harnessing the Power of Your Audience - Applying New Information and Tools to Your Journalism." Perton began by following up on the preceding case studies by noting that, in some way, crowd sourcing is not new. After all, he said, radio call-ins and letters the editor at newspapers have been common practice for a very long time. "What's really different today," he said, "is that collaborators expect to be given tools to create content on their own terms."
Perton then introduced Lila King, who is a senior producer at CNN.com and leads the cable network's iReports team at iReport.com. King gave a bit of history on the project, noting that when it was created in 2006, it drew 13
iReports from viewers on the first day. By the end of 2007, CNN was getting 10,000 submissions per month, of which about 900 would be fact checked and published. Now, however, viewers can register to be iReporters and upload video and audio contributions. Anything that is used by CNN is fact checked. Most reports are self-generated, but CNN also suggests assignments, such as covering the California wildfires or contributing questions to "The Situation Room", the CNN program. King spends a lot time pitching iReports to the network, in fact. On the day of the Virginia Tech shootings, for example, an on-the-scene iReport was the "key video of the day." Other significant iReport coverage has included the Minnesota bridge collapse and protests in Myanmar. During the campaign, iReporters were invited to discuss the presidential debates. King said that the approach produces a "different quality" of conversation that is more "raw." But now CNN and the audience are "all in it together," King noted, though, "Community management takes a lot more time than I ever thought it would." Her original estimation that it would only require a "few" hours per day was a bit "naïve," she concluded.
After CNN's King, Thor Muller, the CEO of Get Satisfaction, talked about his site, which provides "people-powered customer service." Get Satisfaction is an open, transparent, and "neutral" forum that connects companies,
employees, and customers in an effort to foster problem solving and efficiency, asserted Muller. He said he hopes what he's doing will be "materially useful" to journalists and then discussed four themes in customer service:
1) "Public is the New Private," whereby there are new incentives for engagement between companies, employees, and customers that are both social and monetary. Social media creates serendipity, expands the universe of
experts, and shames companies into responding to their customers.
2) "Honesty as a Prophylactic," whereby consumers use search engines and databases such as Google as a check on market accountability. Muller said that the Internet has given consumer more control over companies'
reputations. He noted, for instance, that it wasn't necessary for Bob Garfield to be a media figure to succeed with Comcast Must Die. Companies can no longer hide, Muller said; they respond and social media is "changing
the way they do business."
3) "Business is Becoming Personal," whereby individuals are taking responsibility for their reputations and will not carry out flawed policies.
4) "Kindler, Gentler Customers," whereby consumers are becoming less irate in their interactions with companies because they have forums where their concerns are being addressed.
Those forums also provide opportunities for consumer journalists, Muller concluded. They allow pattern matching and analysis, provide context for anecdotes, encourage re-humanization of the companies, reduce incentives for
bad actors, and demand better customer service.
The next speaker was Judith Meskill, the Chief Operating Officer of Crowd Fusion and former Chief Operating Officer of Weblogs, and a popular speaker on social media and online communities. Meskill said that she started in the business working at Pacific Bell's Web service. At that time, the customer service team wasn't prepared to receive customer feedback by e-mail, which seemed like a "no brainer" to her. On the first day, company employees were manning the phones while over 10,000 e-mails poured in, but no calls. This is evidence that consumers have moved on to the Web in overwhelming numbers.
Meskill's new project, Crowd Fusion, was created to develop the new tools and platforms necessary for Web publishing at scale. Its platforms leverage a number of social media components like IM, Skype, and Google Docs. They also work on search engine optimization and aggregating "conversations" from around the Web. There is a rating and quality control system that filters for the best information. Crowd Fusion can provide journalists with helpful tools by allowing them to search for stories that are "socially popular," and Meskill pointed to Twitter and Facebook as examples of social media that are particularly "potent" tools for journalists. The conversations that are
happening on each of these Web sites are different, she added, and there is a large incentive for companies and producers to pay attention to what is being discussed online. The same goes for journalists. Meskill said that it
is not so much that the potency of journalism is evaporating online, but rather that there is a poor "currency of trust." Journalists, she concluded, should leverage social media to bring readers and audiences in and improve
that trust.
The fourth and last panelist was Joel Sucherman, the director of product innovation at USA Today, where he recently took the editorial lead in the re-design and re-launch of USAToday.com. Sucherman explained that one of the founding principles at the publication was "opening its doors" to readers, and there was an early realization that those readers were an untapped resource. "Reporters will never understand the intricacies of something" as well as people who live and deal with that thing every day, he said.
Networked journalism is an important editorial mission at USA Today, but it is incumbent upon the Web site to provide the tools and the space for readers to help produce quality content rather than hollow chatter. Since
USA Today's site re-launched, for example, each headline includes a prominent comment and recommendation count, so that readers can see where the "buzz" is. They also created more space for user-generated content. They've had photo collections of opening day at Major League Baseball games around the country and impressive weather scenes. Getting published on the site is a "really big deal for people," Sucherman said. The site also has reader blogs such as the NFL Blog Squad, where readers in major cities around the country have set up home team blogs. In an effort to have the Web "give back" to the print edition, the newspaper now runs "Page 3.0," a user-generated sports page. Such trends in social media are altering roles in the newsroom, he added. In a variation on the "Long Tail" concept of business, Sucherman offered the "Fuzzy Tail" concept whereby staff employees now have to do "a little bit of everything," from print, to Web, to multimedia, to community management.
This new organization allows for more engaging storytelling, Sucherman argued. For example, USA Today created a "candidate match game," in which readers entered their political positions and were shown which candidates best matched their views. There was also a "presidential poll tracker" that aggregated all of the available election polls. Sucherman described the approach as "database reporting, a gift that keeps on giving" through constant updates and a live flow of data, and which stays active for long periods of time. The databases aggregate professional and public knowledge in all media, including blogs, videos, photos, and audio files. Once again demonstrating the changing roles in the newsroom, Sucherman added that reporters are now becoming more like "curators of information." An example of this is Gene Sloan's Cruise Log blog at USA Today, which aggregates professional and user information about cruises. Through a variety of comments, reviews, and ratings, the expertise behind that site in provided by the crowd.
The conversation then opened up among the panelists. Perton asked King about "damage control" for false iReports at CNN. King replied that they rely on community policing, which is very effective. In a few instances, however, inaccurate information has been picked up and disseminated by sites like Digg before it could be corrected. Sucherman jumped in to defend iReports and said that one bad incident should not destroy the system. Muller agreed that people spot and correct errors very quickly online.
Perton then asked how readers' ability to rank and recommend favorite stories affects news prioritization. Sucherman said he originally worried that with such a system, the top headlines would always involve celebrities
like Britney Spears, but that hasn't been the case. People want to talk about important things like the presidential election and be engaged, he said. And because of that, journalists have recognized the potential resources and talent their readers and audiences provide.
The conference closed by returning to a short discussion of business models for journalism and consumer reporting. All the panelists agreed that it is a difficult time to launch a publication or a career in journalism, especially
one that makes money. Nevertheless, there is a growing demand for reporters that have "grown up" with social media and are well versed in reporting, writing, and a host of multimedia skills from video and sound editing to Web
production. As Sucherman put it, if you don't mind being in an unsettled and uncertain world, "there has never been a more exciting time to be in this field. Historians will write about this moment."


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I'm stopping weighing myself all the time, it's getting annoying
5mins cycling, stretched, then another 5 mins cycling. I know I said 20mins but I wasn't feeling great. I have nausia and a headache that won't decide if it's coming or going
Row: 36kgs 5x5
Bench: 45.25 kgs (math fail) 3x5 2x3
Squat: 60kgs 5x5
Starting to feeling like the squats require effort. My technique went to hell on the last few, if that keeps happening I'll slow the rate I increase the weight at-not that I think I can have a hell of a lot easy increase left. I might put a tube banadage thing round my dodgy knee too because I'm starting to feel like I'm pushing back up unevenly. My arms felt shakey on the bench presses and I started to feel a bit ill again.
Lordmuppet wrote:Yep this tuesday coming at 11 sounds good! I'll be wearing a blue t shirt and blue lifting shoes in case you don't recognise me from my picture
Oh and how about saving up cigarette money for some cool training gear such as a belt?!
Oh and I'll be in FW1 surrounded by bags and stuff!
Cool, I'll be the short guy with the purple hair.
I have a lifting belt somewhere. I have no idea why but I seemed to have acquired it when I was a kid and still have it. Maybe I decided for a while I wanted to bit a powerlifter when I grew up I'm getting gloves for Christmas, the skin on my hands goes hard enough for it to not hurt then the hard bits flake off and it hurts again which is annoying and gross. But I figure if I find the need for anything else. Just now I'm imagining lots of quinoa and nutritional yeast and tofu. I'm quite easily pleased


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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Kheera/Paneer payasam
It is wednesday and time to Blog hop Started by Radhika. This week i am paired with Madhusmita of Redspice.in . Since i felt like eating some sweet, i chose to make this payasam.
Paneer 1/2 cup( i used 1/2 lt of milk to make this)
Sugar 1/2 cup or to taste
Saffron few strands
Boil 1/2 lt milk. When it starts boiling, switch off the stove, squeeze in a lemon and stir well. It will start to curdle and the whey will separate. Strain it and tie it in a cloth for all the water to separate.
To make paneer in microwave see this step by step procedure
Heat a thick bottomed pan, add the other 500 ml of milk. Boil it till it reduces to half its original volume.
Add a few strands of saffron and reduce he heat.
Now add the sugar and mix well. Do not boil now.
When the sugar has dissolved add the paneer. Mix well. Remove from heat and cool it down
Garnish with pistachios or almonds and serve
I loved this.
Linking this dessert with
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Crickets take me home
If I could choose one noise as the soundtrack of my childhood, it would be crickets. Ten acres of forest and fields was the perfect stage for their evening performances. On many nights my mom, dad and I would build a bonfire and roast hotdogs for supper. We'd sit at a picnic table out back, nestled in the woods behind the house and white picket-fenced garden. Crickets would sing; we were happy.
Other sounds have replaced those choirs since I left Eden at 18: the loud music and drunken laughter of downtown Fredonia on a Saturday night; Manhattan's taxis and fire trucks and people It's usually difficult for me to fall asleep. But whenever I go home, I am once again lulled by the cricket's lullaby.
It's been six years since my dad's death. I was feeling particularly melancholy this past winter, so my friend Jason from the Philippines (who met up with me last summer in Bangkok, Thailand) generously invited a friend and me to share his holiday.
"Where do you want to go?" I asked.
"You choose," he said in January. "Anywhere in the world."
There are so many places I want to explore before I die: Argentina, the Caribbean, Italy, Fiji But the one place that kept coming to mind was the south of France. Specifically Provence.
My mom and dad went there in 1984 – my mom turned 29 on the trip, my dad was 31. It was their ninth wedding anniversary. To celebrate, they decided to spend a month traveling and visiting with my Aunt Therese, Uncle Gerard and the rest of our French family.
A favorite story is when they stayed in Nice. Many women were topless along the Rivera. But my mom was uncomfortable doing that. So, she wore a one-piece black bathing suit with white trim. She was also wearing a gold cross necklace my dad had bought for her birthday.
One afternoon, she decided to sprawl on the beach while my dad and the rest of the family explored. When they returned a few hours later, my mother was confused: people kept walking by and dropping francs onto her towel. My aunt Therese laughed.
"They think you are a nun!" she exclaimed.
After Nice, everyone drove to Provence. It was the height of lavender season and the grounds were patched with green, yellow and purple turf.
"The fragrance was just everywhere," my mom has described. "But it was making me queasy."
The trip signaled a change in my parents' lives and relationship. Before they left, they had decided they wanted to start a family; my mom was pregnant with me.
Jason, my friend Kathryn and I flew into Nice last Sunday morning. We rented a car and drove to Provence that night.
Everyone in the car was silent, first with fear as I navigated the winding, extremely narrow, mountainous bends. But once we rolled into the country, we were in awe. Old plane trees lined the roads, making it look like we were driving through green tunnels. Olive and cherry orchards were past that. And vineyards. The mountains in the distance looked purple as the sun set. The smell of cut grass and churned dirt and ripening grapes filled us all with olfactory pleasure.
We arrived at our beautiful hotel – Le Chateau des Alpilles in Saint-Remy-de-Provence – at dusk. We stayed in a cottage large enough for a family of four. While Jason and Kathryn unpacked, I took a walk around the property.
The history of the chateau spans several centuries. The rural farmland initially belonged to a thirteenth-century knight. Various families in succession have inhabited the land since. In the 18th century, the Blain family took possession of it. With them came the phrase, "la vie de chateau" – "castle life in all its splendor." But over time, the castle fell into despair.
When the Bon family took over in 1979, it was a dilapidated slum in a verdant setting. Francoise Bon and her daughter Catherine set about restoring and embellishing it, giving it a lovely mix of hominess and elegance.
On my walk, I discovered a fruit orchard, the tree limbs heavy with cherries and apricots. And I also found a rose garden. Then I came along a spread of fine lavender, its fragrance and purple arms beckoning me.
I dropped to my knees and breathed deep. Choirs of crickets performed all around me. I smiled – I knew I'd sleep tight that night.
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Daily at lunch, 11 to 1:30 & Tuesday evenings 5:30 to 8.
So, unfortunetly that day is a birthday for someone, but I will try and make it. Try being the word. I'll at least be there for the picture
I don't know if I will eat, but if I do, veggie or cheese for me/
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
You gonna drop any trade news again this time?
Asked afterward if O'Neal's absence contributed to Charlotte's win, Knight bristled.
"What about Primoz? They didn't have Shaq, but we didn't have Primoz," he said.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
That's gonna be a really tough day for me to make, but I'm gonna try.
Skip Bayless:
"Derek Fisher will prove to be a much better NBA head coach than Steve Kerr."
"The Houston Texans will forever regret it if they do not take Johnny Manziel with the No. 1 overall pick. He will haunt them."
"You bet I'd take Tebow late in games over ARodg."
"Manti Te'o: the next Ray Lewis."
I'll come up with something
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
We are just 4 short weeks away from the party.
As we start getting a little closer I'd like to hear from a few more of you.
This is the list of those that most likely will be there.
Roaming Gnome
NBA Champs in 05
ABA Days
OK, I want to add the following names, even thou some are only "possibilities".
Big Mac - mentioned in a former thread he might make it.
RWB & Mrs. RWB - I hope the weather is nice, if so, I think they can make it. We really missed out on some great stories last time.
Booger aka Spicoli - you still coming?
JOneal7 - should be fun.
Indygeezer - I'd like to add him to our alumni list. Are we still in your plans?
Gyron - Still a maybe?
Peck - Should I even ask?
Diamond Dave - Can you make this one too?
Doug in CT - It'll be nice to meet the legend.
OK, now for my "hit list". These are posters that I know live in the area but have yet to speak up.
Burtrem Redneck
7-Layer Burrito
Pig Nash
PHC Fan
Scott H - I know ya go by a different spelling now, but that way is so much easier.
I MAY be there. I'm flying in from NY that day and get in around 3.
But I have a 4-hr layover in Det (be quicker to rent a car and drive home). That's enough to wear anyone out.
The poster formerly known as Rimfire
So we're taking orders now? Sign me up for pepperoni pizza, or pepperoni&sausage if that'd be more popular with the masses.
What's this? You guys changed the party date! It used to be the Saturday BEFORE thanksgiving, now it's the Saturday AFTER!
Won't be there. Sorry fellas. Maybe next year.
This space for rent.
It was the only Saturday before February without a game.
Fair enough. But I still can't make it.
This space for rent.
I wish I could make it, but i don't live in the area anymore. I am currently attending grad. school in California. I'm going home at the beginning of December, but I think i'm a week off.
Have fun though!! I'll try to make one of the next ones.
Here, everyone have a : on me
When did you change??? I can't make it anymore, sorry. I was there for that weekend b/c of thanksgiving, but not after that.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
It's always been the 27th, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
I'll take just about any poor defenseless animal and pineapple on my pie...
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OHH....I thought you meant the weekend AFTER that....haha....oh boy....
then forget that whole thing post
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As the US federal government sidled up to the debt ceiling earlier this week without quite running into it, one of the key arguments in favor of raising the debt ceiling was that it is immoral to breach a contract. The federal government has creditors, both from whom it has borrowed money and to whom it has promised transfer payments, and it has an obligation to fulfill those promises.
As Joe Carter argued here, "Member of Congress who are refusing to raise the debt ceiling (or raise taxes) until their ancillary demands are met are acting immorally, since they are refusing to pay the debts they themselves authorized."
But as Connie Cass writes, the idea that the United States has never defaulted isn't quite true. As she writes,
America has briefly stiffed some of its creditors on at least two occasions.
Once, the young nation had a dramatic excuse: The Treasury was empty, the White House and Capitol were charred ruins, even the troops fighting the War of 1812 weren't getting paid.
A second time, in 1979, was a back-office glitch that ended up costing taxpayers billions of dollars. The Treasury Department blamed the mishap on a crush of paperwork partly caused by lawmakers who — this will sound familiar — bickered too long before raising the nation's debt limit.
So if it is immoral to default, then America has done so at least twice.


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Chet,Steve and I came up with a decent pizza sauce using Great Value Tomato Paste yesterday (with added water, Greek oregano, pepper and salt, but I dont know if the kind of cheese (only cheddar) we used helped the paste sauce or not on the final pizza. If you want what we used, I can post it.Norma
Does the tomato paste pizza have a watery flavor though? That sounds like a super cheap way to make sauce for sure which is awesome, I'd just be concerned that you'd lose that bright taste you get with a good sauce. Maybe something acidic would fix it? Vinegar or lemon juice? No idea, just shooting that out there.


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I'm really trying. I learn to socialize by observing others...and what you see from me on the boards is what i learned from the world around me. I was diagnosed with Aspegers sydrome. I was never able to be independant i was told by several people that i was a borderline retard. I only had one chance to have a real relationship with a woman, but that was nipped in the bud by her mom. If the people on the board really knew me how my friends i met in person (and on MySpace) knows me then they wouldnt be so judgemental.
One of the big reasons why i go on message boards is to make friends.
My late stepdad's brother is gay. he struggles between his God and his homosexuality. Being a Christian, i believe that we're all born with a spiritual "Achilles' Heel", if you will, One of those "Achilles' Heels" is homosexuality. We all have our weakness'. I was never against Elton for being gay. he's one of my fav singer/songwriters of the 70s.
I saw some of Elton's interviews, he can be very "tounge & cheek" (if i'm using the term correctly) about his sexuality. Thats what i was being. Howcome when they do it, its funny, but when i do, i'm a bigot. James dont know me, why do you judge me? Did anyone EVER on this board ever try to find me on MySpace? NO! Why, cause they just dont care.
If anyone wants to really know me, without making snap judgements about me, please try to find me on MySpace My name is Derek Roberts. I'll even send you a link and plaese send others a link: http://www.myspace.com/367930251


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Size35 m²
Floor No.2
- Air conditioning
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Smoking allowed
Accommodation summary
It is an excellent floor of 30 meters, the decor is modern, is situated at the very center of Madrid within 50 meters of Gran Via.
FROM THE WALKING apartment you can visit museums, restaurants, Palacio Real, Opera Theater, El Rastro, ECT. CAN ENJOY loitering, visiting the most important places, but also the time at night which is very interesting, is very close to LOS BARRIOS, orchards, SOL, the area with the highest proportion of tourists.
The apartment consists of 1 bedroom with double bed, the lounge has a single sofa bed, TV, very modern bathroom and large, provided with towels and toilets, fully equipped kitchen, HAS ALL THE TOOLS REQUIRED: kettle, toaster, washing machine and more. The apartment also has WIFI, air conditioning and heating throughout the apartment.
The apartment location is great as it is in the heart of Madrid behind the Gran Via ZARA and 20 meters from Hotel Tryp Cibeles,
Surrounded by shops and stores like H and M, Primark, EL CORTE INGLES AND MANY MORE ...
Great restaurants, squares and terraces where you can taste the best SPANISH FOOD.
THANKS TO IMMEDIATE proximity to the Gran Via and Plaza Callao, TRANSPORT SERVICE is optimal EITHER BUS OR TAXI -metro Parkin BESIDES THE MOON PLAZA APARTMENT 100mt.
House rulesCHECK-OUT OF APARTMENTS is 11:00, leave the keys on the table and close the door.
IN CASE YOU NEED TO BE A LITTLE MORE OF TIME OUT THEN ASK FOR AVAILABILITY The departure can be flexible or maybe can leave your luggage in our office which is near the apartment.
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Perfect location, good service, nice apartment!
Cute tiny appartments next to one of the central streets of Madrid. Everything was fine except air conditioner — it was tooooo cold at night.
Nice flat, clean, great location.
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Nice Apartment in a very good location
Apartment is small but all you need is available: fully equipped kitchen, iron, hair dryer, wi-fi etc. Location is really great - very close to the city center. We could visit all famous places on foot. There are a few metro stations around. The host is very nice, he left a wine bottle for us and some refresments in the fridge. The only disadvantage was that we could hear our neighbours very distictly. The apartment is also quite dark during the day, but it was not a big problem because we were out until the evening.
Small but nice and clean appartment in the heart of the city, all attractions within walking distance, contact with getting keys and leaving luggage very friendly and easy.
My suggestion to Melvin: How about removing the washing machine in the kitchen for having a bit more space?
Excellent location to begin with,ideal for couples with 1 baby "in tow."Both the elevator door frame / gap and the door jambs in the apartment (the main and entrance door) are barely wide enough for a single-baby stroller to be squeezed through,so if you are planning to travel with one - beware. Ours did fit eventually,but at a pinch. We were greeted by one of Melvin's secretaries-a kind and very helpful girl.She showed us around and handed us the keys to the property.A bottle of good wine had been set on the table,which was a nice gesture.We did not lack in anything during our stay-there was a toaster,a microwave oven,a flatbed toaster,an electric kettle,besides a 2-burner kitchen range and a fridge of course.Although the place is somewhat smaller than advertised,we enjoyed staying there. The service was fine. If we needed anything, it just took a text message and we got all our problems sorted out.At night it was real quiet, which is a great pro!After all,most central locations tend to be quite noisy and this one was an exception. I would highly recommend this owner and the place to those who want to explore the city without having to shlep half way across the city to get anywhere. I will definitely consider stayingbthere in my next visit to this magnificent city!
Melvin provides a perfectly clean, well furnished flat to accommodate a high number of persons.The air conditioners are necessary to survive Madrids very hot summer.
The stay was very nice, the floor is as is shown in the pictures, and we did not expect anything to come to him, the hosts were very attentive and were at our disposal, we also held our bags the last day.
certainly highly recommended apartment
La estancia fue muy agradable, el piso es tal cual se muestra en las fotos, y no tuvimos que esperar nada para entrar a él, los anfitriones fueron muy atentos y estuvieron a nuestra disposición, además nos guardaron las maletas el último día.
apartamento muy recomendable sin duda
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Lazarus_2 wrote:I don't consider Wings better than The Who...maccastheman wrote:Wings. Game over.
I genuinely believe Wings were better than The Who. I mean, The Who were great, no question, but apart from the standout songs, there's an awful lot of filler on their albums. Pete Townshend is not as consistently as good a songwriter as Paul McCartney. Their albums suffered for that.


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Coconut Tapioca Pudding & Cardamom Pecan Cookies
December 9, 2011 in Cooking | Tags: cardamom, coconut, coconut milk, dairy free dessert, pecan cookies, pudding, tapioca pudding | 7 comments
Playing on the coconut theme a lot of my dairy-free recipes have been over the past few months, I made a delicious tapioca pudding. I have to confess I made six full batches this past weekend of pudding and found this to be the best spin on the age old classic.
Sometimes making desserts does not mean spending laborious amounts of time making tarts, jelly rolls or mousse cakes. It's all about variety, comfort and spending time with others, not to mention they would be happy to help with over abundant dessert making!
Using coconut has been a great way for me to enjoy dairy rich recipes without using dairy at all. I am not saying no to dairy, but I think experimenting and variety to be what keeps cooking and baking exciting here at home.
Another recipe today is a cardamom spiced pecan cookies that was paired with this dessert just for fun and a nice balance from the creamy pudding.
Coconut Tapioca Pudding Recipe
½ cup tapioca pearls [not instant]
2 2/3 cup unsweetened coconut milk [drinking beverage]
1 14-ounce can coconut milk
½ teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoons cornstarch*
2 teaspoons cold water
1/3 cup granular sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract.
1. Soak tapioca pearls in coconut milk [drinking beverage] overnight in the refrigerator.
2. Once soaked, place in a medium saucepan with the coconut milk and bring to a simmer.
3. Reduce heat if necessary to keep coconut milk at a gentle simmer and cook for 8 minutes.
4. Add the cornstarch mixed with water to the pan. Stir until mixture comes back to a boil and has thickened.
5. Add sugar and vanilla extract and remove from heat.
6. Chill pudding in a shallow bowl and covered with plastic wrap directly on the surface.
Served room temp or chilled, makes 6-8 servings.
*note: If in the event you boil the pudding to hard you may not need the starch to give a more pleasant body.
Cardamom-Spiced Pecan Cookie Recipe
6 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 cup confectioner's sugar, sifted
½ cup finely ground toasted pecans
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 large egg
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon sea salt
2 cup gluten-free baking mix
2 tablespoons finely chopped toasted pecans
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
1. In a food processor cream the butter and then mix in confectioner's sugar until smooth.
2. Add egg and vanilla; process for a minute until well incorporated.
3. Add pecans, cardamom and sea salt and mix in.
4. With the processor off place the full amount of flour mixture and process just until dough forms.
5. Chill dough for 2 hours in a flattened disk or one inch logs.
6. Cut eight inch slices and arrange on a parchment lined sheet pan and sprinkle on pecans.
7. Bake for 12 minutes or until edges are lightly golden.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (584 votes).
In short: quick, fairly flat, easy access and close to my PB!!Date of review: September 2, 2008
In short: Perfect warm up for flmIn full: It was a bit boring scenery wise, but the pre-flm atmosphere made up for that. Date of review: May 10, 2008
In short: Great for motorsport fans. Good crowd support when the weather holds out!In full: This was my second Silverstone half, and I have to say I enjoyed this year much more than the hail and gales of 2007. The organisation is great here - I hardly had to queue for anything, not even the toilets! No problems getting my bag back after the race. My only gripe was that my timing chip didn't scan over the mat at the start so my finishing time was about 35 seconds out (the time it took me to get to the start line after the gun). I started with one of the Runner's World pacing groups which is a great idea if you feel intimidated by other runners around you - we had no problems getting past the people in front with our pacing group leader politely calling out we were coming through! Next year, it would be great to see a 7:30 mile group if you can manage one RW.Date of review: May 4, 2008
In short: Slick, well run event and a good run in for a London first timerIn full: Not exactly inspiring scenery although I love motor sport so it was great for me. A bit bleak round the back with no spectators but very well organised and beginner friendly with a nice chunky medal and a quality tee shirtDate of review: April 19, 2008
In short: Great race, organisation and atmosphere. Real PB potentialDate of review: March 31, 2008
In short: Great race, better weather this yearIn full: I like this race, always goood for a pb. Plenty of room for everyone( although cheating faster cretins who start at the back because it's chip timed and barge past us slower runners should be slapped) Lovely weather for a change. Overall a great day and I hope to be back for a 4th go next yearDate of review: March 20, 2008
In short: My first HM, love it, great goody bag, back next yearDate of review: March 17, 2008
In short: Great race for all type's of runnersIn full: Great race better than 2007 only because of the weather last year with hurricane albert, good atmosphere, very well organised, plenty of drink stops & an excellent 4 man tent style t-shirt ready for camping! (joke) & well the scenery... its a race track for gods sake what do you expect to see? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically…!" ill be back next year if London dont kill meDate of review: March 15, 2008
In short: Beats the weather of 2007Date of review: March 14, 2008
In short: Great race, amazing to run the Silverstone trackDate of review: March 13, 2008
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1. Make your fire bigger. Much bigger! 2. Your coal bed --- same thing. Twice the size!!!
4. Buy one of the metallic pizza peels. With the holes. Night and day difference. No need to think about it. Just a necessity really.
I'm still struggling with this one. I start off with a decent size fire, to the point where I see flames rolling up the vent. I then break down the fire just a bit as I don't want all the heat rolling up the chimney. I'm also curious to know what the average temperature drop is. I've read various articles/postings about people making some pizzas and then an hour or two later making some bread. I'm loosing about 50 degrees (F) over a few hours. In fact, the tuscan bean soup I was hoping to make tonight will be postponed until tomorrow morning due to a too-hot oven (for the soup).I just don't get this. My mind keeps telling me that it would actually make things worse. I think some of my problems (beyond high expectations) had to due with the dough recipe I was using. It contained sugar, oil & malted flour. It was *great* on Friday when I was cooking at low temps. Yesterday though, I was constantly fighting a charred bottom (if it came off the peel, that is). While I haven't figured out the hydration on that recipe, I think it has to be pretty high. It was incredibly sticky and I had problems stretching it. As soon as it folded in on itself it was over. Back to the peel, I just think that with dough that sticky, it would naturally fall into the holes on the peel and make my problem even worse. -Paul
Paul,I'm not trying to tell you to reinvent the wheel here. Robin and Tom are trying to tell you the same thing you can read ALL OVER the NP forum re: ingredients of NP dough. I'm not sure how you can be using a dough whose hydration you do not know. Even someone like me who will fudge the HECK out of any recipe given to me knows the hydration of his dough. You gotta know where you are in order to know where you want to go, right?!
And don't get me wrong, I LOVE the versatility of my oven. Steak, chicken, vegetables, even double duty as a smoker, and oh yeah the Tuscan Grill. And yes bread. But not bread two hours after making NP pizza. The bread is for the next DAY!!
Actually - thats not a bad idea. I'll see if I can replace the dome thermometer with something that is bluetooth enabled. I could pair it with my phone and be able to remotely check the temp on my phone. Heck - I might even be able to program something that pings me when the oven hits a certain temp. -Paul
This morning I woke up and made another round of dough. I took a recipe from Mitchjg (thanks!) for dough that was a mix of KABP/00. I also made some straight up 00 dough balls at about 62%. I planned ahead and started a fire around noon and slowly brought the oven up to about 750. Not the ideal temp for a true VPN pie, but I was able to slow things down and practice.No pics unfortunately. My favorite pizza of the night was garlic scapes (sautéed in EVOO) with fresh arugula from our garden. No cheese. A little EVOO drizzled over the top and it was over the top. The sweet scapes + the bitter arugula was the perfect combination. I headed the advice that less is more and went easy on the sauce. Made a huge difference - thanks!I hit a major milestone today - all pizzas were successfully launched off the peel into the oven. Even better, most of them were round. The trick, I found, was to rub 00 into the grain of a wooden peel and build the pie on that. I sprinkled enough 00 flour onto the sticky dough ball so that it was manageable. I realize now that I didn't use enough flour while stretching previously. Once the pie was built, I'd slide it under the metal peel (with a pinch of semolina) and then run it out to the oven.Regarding fire management, I built a decent sized fire slowly in the center until the dome went clear. I then pushed everything off to the side that I would cook on and added more wood. When it was time to make the pies, I banked everything over to the other side and added more wood. It worked out well. When the first pie went in, I was at about 800 hearth/dome. It slowly lowered after that, which was fine by me. The KABP/00 dough cooked in about 2.5 - 3 min. The rolling flames went out a few times, but a couple of small logs took care of that problem. I am really loving this oven. It is nice when everything "clicks" and nothing comes out burnt. I think I have enough confidence to invite friends over next weekend for my first pizza party. I have some baguettes rising in the fridge for tomorrow morning's breakfast. I'm digging it. Couldn't get here without the help from the forum - thanks!! -Paul


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Beginners Bootcamp II
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Boot camp instructor Sonja Anderson-Strevesto will be leading this free exercise training! It will be fun and you'll work a sweat! Please wear athletic clothing and bring a water bottle.
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- Student Activities Board
- Location:
- Robertson Field
- Cost:
- Event is Free
- Audience:
- Current Students
- RSVP below. RSVP is appreciated, but not required