Frebby Honorable Mention Winners
This morning, Paprika Studios announced the Honorable Mention winners of the 2011 Frebby Awards. While the seven winners are to be announced tonight during the festivities at Fulton 55, here are the honorable mentions (filled with plenty of honor): Best Local Blog Quotes of the Week I Work at a Public Library Harvesting Health Weird … Read more
Remembering 9/11 across the web
At the time that two buildings in the New York Financial District fell, there were no forms of communication known as Twitter, Facebook and even MySpace. Most found out about the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a likely attack on Washington, D.C. through television and radio. Ten years later, the jubilant … Read more
Coming Soon: Great Fresno Scavenger Hunt 2.0
The Great Fresno Scavenger Hunt is back, but different. Instead of searching the city for answers, you’ll be using the searching the city for the questions and the web for answers.
New Addition: I’m from Fresno, Ace T-Shirt
Seen Captain America yet? If you have seen the film, you’ve undoubtedly seen the scene where Captain America frees a group of POWs from a prisoner camp. As one of the prisoners, a Nisei commando named Jim Morita says to Captain America, “I’m from Fresno, Ace,” then runs off to escape. Morita, of course, joins … Read more
Duesland: Two Years Later
Two years ago, I started the Daily Dues in San Luis Obispo. After a two-week workshop sponsored by the California Scholastic Press Association (which celebrated its 60th anniversary yesterday), I began blogging about everything: from the music I enjoyed to the sports I loved watching to the news I found fascinating.
Panel Watch: The Future of Journalism
If you work in a field that is relatively close to journalism, you’ve heard that, in general, the industry is dead. With the decline of newspapers and the growing number of web-based publications, journalism is in a state of transition. Thanks to the hard work of the Social Media Club of Fresno, you’ll get some … Read more
The Daily Dues is taking a week off
It’s Spring Break at the Daily Dues. While we won’t be relaxing in Mexico this week, we wanted to make sure that you knew that no local news will be coming from the Dues. We’ll still have some updates at The TIcket 2012 (our politics and election hub) for those looking to fill their need … Read more
A Challenge for Fresno: Win a Shorty Award
I’m asking Fresno for a favor, and I hope you’ll help us out. Fresno has one of the best web communities in the country, and I’d like you all to support the Daily Dues for a Shorty Award. We’ve been providing great content for the last year and we’d like you guys to support us … Read more
Introducing the Daily Dues Review
Twitter is a magnificent tool that people use for all sorts of reasons. Here at the Dues, we’re taking your Tweets with links (those being the people who we follow) and compiling an online paper called “The Dues Review.” If you get a Twitter mention with our Dues Review, that means that one of your … Read more
