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OK, Justin Vernon. Like every other 20-something woman who gets her music from friends a year too late, I might be a little obsessed with you.
So. In honor of National Blog Posting Month (brought to my attention by my buddy, Diane), I’m trying to add something to this site every day. This means some of my posts are going to be totally uninteresting to you, but are going to be enjoyed by me at a much later date, probably when I am old and boring. Anyway, I could listen to my Top 25 iTunes picks every single day. Come to think of it, that’s pretty much what I do. So, without further ado:
- “Skinny Love” Bon Iver
- “Use Somebody” Kings of Leon
- “Flume” Bon Iver
- “For Emma” Bon Iver
- “Re: Stacks” Bon Iver
… sense a trend …?
- “Wisconsin” Bon Iver
- “Crimewave” Crystal Castles
- “The ‘59 Sound” Gaslight Anthem
- “Electric Feel” MGMT
- “Lump Sum” Bon Iver
- “The Wolves (Act 1 & 2)” Bon Iver
- “Blindsided” Bon Iver
- “For Our Elegant Castle” Of Montreal
- “Creature Fear” Bon Iver
- “Team” Bon Iver
- “Can You Tell” Ra Ra Riot
- “Rebellion (Lies)” Arcade Fire
- “When the Night Comes” Dan Auerbach
- “Sex on Fire” Kings of Leon
- “It’ll Be a Breeze” Long Winters
- “Smile Like You Mean It” The Killers
-”Manhattan” Kings of Leon
- “Stupid” Long Winters
- “Charlie Darwin” The Low Anthem

Kings of Leon: At the point in their career where it's embarassing for me to enjoy them as much as I do.
[You probably didn't] notice that there are only 24 songs listed — that’s because “Sex on Fire” comes up twice. Yes, I am a 24-year-old teenybopper, and I needed a quick and easy way to add to NBPM while in the midst of working, studying and looking for jobs.
It really is as terrifying as they say.
Real quick, just wanted to say I was blown away by a CollegeJourn chat I peeked in on tonight. It hasn’t been that long since I got my undergrad degree, but the entire nature of the conversation is different. In fact, I’d venture to say that just two years ago, there was no conversation about where journalism was going — I think many of us, including our instructors, were still very much rooted in traditional practices. I hate to say that grad school hasn’t been all too different.
Some questions posed by the discussion, which Greg Linch of Publish2 told me usually consists of mostly undergrads:
- How should editors best pay attention to search results, specifically using SEO terms?
- Are site homepages still relevant, or do most readers access content story-by-story?
- What are the best editors out there doing right now to harness the capabilities that come with the web?
I mean, wow. Quite intimidating. It made me think the future of journalism will consists of people who can not only write, but possess technical knowledge to build a site from the ground up if they had to. But now I have a couple questions I wish I would’ve asked:
- Where do mid-to-late career journalists, many of them now editors strapped for time and resources, fit into these theories? I had a great experience with an editor named Marshall King. He let us roam free as far as using web techniques to gather stories were concerned, but he’s a busy guy. It seems like a tall order for us to expect every traditionally-trained journalist to go out there and learn to code and use SEO. The people out there hiring us are still trying to save the print dinosaur, bless them.
- Where does the print model fit? No one talked tonight talked about newspapers.
Maybe I’m a little late to this discussion. Has the past year of my life been spent learning stuff that won’t be applicable in five years? Whatever happened to writing? I feel like I’m right on the cusp, somewhere between new and old.
When Washington Post recruiter Peter Perl spoke to us at Medill today, he jokingly compared journalism today to sausage processing.
So telling, and so scary, and so true.
If you need me, I’ll be outside with the chirping crickets. Night.


Finally, success! Since those first invites were dispersed Sept. 30, I’ve been waiting with bated breath to be asked into the secret Internet funhouse that is
A few important points:
Into the void: A sampling of Medill student Web sites

New media guru Jay Rosen gives his tips. Graphic via Creative Commons images





