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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 FullCategories
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Author Archives: Ian Hill
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How not to advertise your apartment
The second Tweet below caught my eye this morning; it references a standoff on Pershing Avenue. ApartmentsRent4 seems to imply that the Twitter account hypes apartments available for rent. If that’s the case, the user needs to update the settings on their Twitter bot.
Posted in News and updates, Social Networking, Twitter Tagged standoff, Stockton, Twitter 0 Comments
Stockton part of nationwide Amber Alert hoax on Twitter
The California Highway Patrol said this morning that there is no Amber Alert in Stockton, despite several Tweets to the contrary.
Tweets began appearing Thursday or Friday alleging that a 3-year-old boy was taken by a man in a BMW. Thy give a license plate number and close with “Keep it going. U [...]
A correction from today’s live chat
Moderating a live chat requires you to react to dozens of questions from an online audience while ensuring that the conversation keeps a brisk pace. You have to be able to think on your feet.
Unfortunately, in some chats I trip up.
During today’s Recordnet.com chat with Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston we received nearly 150 [...]
Which IFG-Stockton employees should stay, and more on IFG and SMG
I’m back in the office today after a restful week’s vacation. On July 4, while I was gone, I had a story published that looked at current Stockton entertainment venue managers International Facilities Group and the prospective new managers SMG. I interviewed several promoters and experts for the article, and not everything they said fit [...]
Alyssa Milano hypes the Stockton Stingrays
The “Who’s the Boss?” and “Charmed” actress and baseball fan posted the Tweet below for her 907,000 followers this morning. For video of the Stingrays in action at the 2009 National Beep Baseball Association World Series, click here.
iPhone 4 on Twitter and Facebook
Thousands of people are lined up at stores across the country to get their hands on the new iPhone 4. Are you in a line at an area store waiting for your phone right now? Did you camp out last night? Have you made it through the line and you’re excited to finally have your [...]
Puppies and kittens!
I received a few calls today from readers asking how they can get free veterinary services from students and instructors in Western Career College’s veterinary technology program. The students and instructors treated a total of 63 cats and dogs during a free clinic for pet owners who were homeless or in need Thursday in the [...]
Posted in Multimedia, News and updates Tagged pets, St. Mary's, Stockton Shelter for the Homeless, Western Carrer College 0 Comments
Video: Cantu and Huckaby families after Melissa Huckaby’s sentencing
Melissa Huckaby, the Tracy mother who pleaded guilty in May to killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in 2009, received a life sentence this morning without the possibility of parole. The sentencing hearing drew media outlets from Sacramento, the Bay Area and Fresno as well as San Joaquin County. At least nine television trucks were parked outside [...]
Video: Imagine seeing this from the Crosstown Freeway
It’s a dynamic building skin for a high-speed rail station in Stockton as proposed in an architecture student’s video thesis. I came across the thesis, titled “Stockton, CA: Growing Up,” yesterday on Vimeo.com, a video site I often visit for inspiration.
The student, who goes by Mark D. says he’s from Los Angeles and that he [...]
Countdown to kickoff, and a Marcus McDade update