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Tara Cuslidge is online editor for Recordnet.com. She covered youth, features and entertainment for The Record from 2002-2005, and was a general assignment multimedia reporter from Sept. 2007- Nov. 2008. Cuslidge holds a bachelor degree in ... Read FullIan Hill
Ian Hill is a Web content producer for Recordnet.com. In 2007 he helped found 209Vibe, the first newspaper and Web site covering music and entertainment in Stockton and Modesto. Prior to that he served as The Record’s local music and entertainment ... Read FullKirk Barron
Kirk began at The Record in 2007 after graduating from California State University, Chico, with bachelors of arts degrees in journalism and psychology. He has experience as a copy editor, sports reporter, general assignment news reporter and in ... Read FullCategories
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Author Archives: Ian Hill
Ian Hill
Tweets about S.J. County traffic conditions, outages
The roads are a mess this morning thanks to the wind and rain that continue to batter the area. Power outages also have been reported throughout San Joaquin County.
I’ll be posting information about car crashes, traffic hazards and outages on Twitter.com/recordnet as they’re reported this morning by the California Highway Patrol. More information about power [...]
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Story elements and more Halal photos and video
An ideal news article has three elements: Text, photos and multimedia features. Over the past few years I’ve been working to put together a toolkit that would allow me to produce each of those elements for Recordnet.com and The Record.
The first item in the kit was a MacBook Pro for writing text while out of [...]
The Record’s front page, Jan. 1, 2000
With only about 12 hours left in the aughts, I thought it might be interesting to look at The Record’s front page from the decade’s first day – Jan. 1, 2000. The image below is a scan of a photocopy; click on it for a closer look.
As an entertainment guy, I was keenly interested in [...]
Map: Ian’s eating destinations in Western New York
Greetings from my hometown of Williamsville, N.Y., located in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburbs. I’m spending the holidays here with my family.
Buffalo, like Stockton, has been unfairly given a bad rep. Yes, it snows here. But we’re not buried by blizzards nearly as often as our reputation would imply; right now we have about one-quarter of [...]
T is for Twitter, that’s good enough for me…
The Sesame Street gang has made it to the Twitterverse. Check out www.twitter.com/sesamestreet and you’ll find Tweets from the characters, including:
“Cookie Monster: Me love tweeting in privacy of me own home. You no can see how many cookie crumbs stuck in me fur today!”
“Cookie Monster: Cookie haiku: Cookie, cookie, cook. Cookie, cookie, cookie, cook. [...]
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Praise for snail mail
I’m an email devotee who rarely uses the U.S. Postal Service. Still, there are some things you just can’t do online – like send an email to “Stockton Record, Stockton Calif., Ian Hill” and expect that I’d get the message.
Apparently, though, that’s all the information the postal service needs, as shown by this envelope I [...]
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Testing Google Wave in Stockton
Google has been hyping its latest innovation, Wave, as the future of online communication. And Wave is impressive in its beta version, which is now being testing by users across the world.
It allows users to share information live in a variety of formats, including text, hyperlinks, video and maps. It’s like live chat in which [...]
Recordnet snowglobe gets a New Hampshire update
Editorial Artist Mary Francis at Seacoast Online, Recordnet’s sister site in Portsmouth, N.H., has added some neat New England features to our interactive snow globe. Check it out here.
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Test photos in downtown Stockton