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Peter Comings 36, Male
Gaylord
United States

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What news organization do you work for?
Northern Michigan Review
Which of these best describes your day job?
Web Producer
About Me:
Eight years in Gaylord, MI starting in 1999 as a staff writer, news editor for the Gaylord Herald Times, online media manager for Northern Michigan Review (Petoskey, Gaylord, Charlevoix) and editor, Gaylord Herald Times.
Website:
http://www.miseasons.com
Blog:
http://blog.miseasons.com
LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/petercomings

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The anti-Wired conversation

No sooner do I write the below than I find this link for the N'west Iowa Review. It always pays to look one more time. But I still wonder if there are others successfully not doing the Web... (Sunday, 7:40 EST) - What do I mean? NOT THAT I"M ANTI-WIRED so-to-speak. But how do you find a discussion among those who are not going online about why they're not and what success they continue to have in print? For years I worked in Iowa at a small t… Continue

Posted on August 31, 2008 at 4:30am —

Peter Comings

Twitter - How do you deal with changes they make on the fly?

It's the risk of building around a free, Web-based product that something would change and break what you have built, right? Mlive.com/twitter served as an inspiration for me to work up a similar (much smaller) group. But with recent efforts by twitter to address scalability - and who knows what all else in their guts - I have issues now posting live feeds from twitter on my sites unless we post just the original feed, friends not allowed. Is anyone else running into this?

Posted on June 7, 2008 at 3:54pm — 1 Comment

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At 8:58am on March 6, 2008, Mary Ann Chick Whiteside said…
Shawn Smith is the creator of the mlive.com/twitter .... I just keep telling folks about it.

Tried doing it for the Flint Journal on mlive, though - does that count?
At 3:28pm on February 1, 2008, Howard Owens said…
Peter, welcome to WJ.

Wired Journalists is a network of professional (or plan on being professional) journalists.

Part of being professional is tell us who you are.

There's no reason not to use your full, real name in WJ. It will lend credibility to your contributions, provide an avenue for career advancement, and help you understand better what being a wired journalist is all about.

So, please, take a few minutes and update your profile with your full, real name.

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