by Mallary Jean Tenore Published May 23, 2012 7:19 am Updated May 23, 2012 7:22 am When I first wrote about Twitter in September 2007, I got emails from journalists who said I was highlighting a tool that would never have journalistic application. A lot has changed since then. There’s now a greater willingness to embrace Twitter and other social media tools — or to at least see their potential. As more tools emerge, we need to be open to teaching others how to use them and how to integrate them into our workflow. I’ve put together some tips for teaching social media based on teaching I’ve done here at Poynter. While the tips are mostly geared toward journalism educators, journalists who are coaching their ... Continue reading →

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Health officials are testing 35 babies for tuberculosis after a person with an active case of the life-threatening disease visited neonatal-intensive care units at two Northern California hospitals. Few details have been released about the contagious individual, who has since been placed in isolation and is receiving treatment. Officials say the Solano County resident visited Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento during the latter half of March and NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield in early and mid-April. Sutter says the person was not a hospital staffer. Parents of 20 babies in Sacramento County and 15 babies in Solano County are being notified about possible exposure to the sometimes fatal respiratory illness. Solano County Chief Medical Officer Michael Stacey says he believes the ... Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a decade later, Van Handel himself was molesting children while working as a Franciscan priest at the same Santa Barbara boarding school. Van Handel formed a boys' choir for local children and chose his victims from among its ranks for eight years. The generational arc of sexual abuse at St. Anthony's, including Van Handel's own account of his crimes, is included in more than 4,000 pages from the confidential files of nine ... Continue reading →

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A Silicon Valley tech executive faces charges after authorities say he put fake bar codes on hundreds of Lego sets at various Target stores so he could buy the toys at steeply discounted prices, then sell them online for thousands of dollars in profits. Thomas Langenbach, 47, was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on four counts of burglary. Authorities say Langenbach covered over the original bar codes with his own bar-code stickers to get a cheaper price. They say investigators found hundreds of Lego sets at his posh San Carlos home and learned he made thousands of dollars selling the pilfered sets of colorful toy bricks on eBay under the name "tomsbrickyard." Eight baggies of bar code stickers were ... Continue reading →

CHICAGO (AP) -- A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. John Taylor says the former Zenith engineer died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital. He was 96. Couch potatoes everywhere have Polley to thank for hours of feet-up, channel surfing. His invention began as a luxury, but has become a necessity in an era of hundreds of TV channels and home theaters. Just ask anyone who's lost a remote. Polley's 1955 Flash-Matic pointed a beam of light at photo cells in the corners of the screen. This activated the picture and sound and changed channels. Polley and fellow Zenith engineer Robert Adler were honored in 1997 with an Emmy for ... Continue reading →

LONDON (AP) -- A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan - a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's foundation. The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington, the PFCAuctions house said. John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in California, condemned the auction and vowed to try to halt it. Bidding for the vial had passed the 7,000-pound ($11,000) mark Tuesday, the house said, and the auction ends Thursday. "If indeed this story is true, it's a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase," ... Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod. The first time he tried it two years ago, he ran a third of a mile on grass. Within three weeks of switching over, he was clocking six miles on the road. During a training run with a friend along a picturesque bike path near downtown Minneapolis, Carter suddenly stopped, unable to take another step. His right foot seared in pain. "It was as though someone had taken a hammer and hit me with it," he recalled. Carter convinced his friend to run on without him. He hobbled home and rested his foot. When the throbbing became unbearable days later, ... Continue reading →

"We came into this world without shoes." Yes, well, we also came into this world without drugs, but the invention of medicines have certainly been better for us than just letting our bodies "naturally heal". I don't know about other people, but running barefoot hurts my ankles, because my feet turn inward naturally. I don't only have to wear shoes but also support inside my shoes not to hurt when I run or jog. MaggieLovesJimmy 1 hour ago Continue reading →

SEATTLE (AP) -- Officials released a video Monday of a Washington state teen's dramatic, middle-of-the-night rescue just above a 270-foot waterfall. The video, shot by a volunteer rescuer, shows the 13-year-old Burien boy huddled on a narrow, sloping rock shelf with his back to the water just above Wallace Falls, a popular hiking attraction northeast of Seattle. One roped-up rescuer cautiously makes his way to the boy using an aluminum ladder as a foothold, and then guides him up a rock wall to safety. The boy, whose name was not immediately released, had been wading in the Wallace River when he lost his footing late Saturday afternoon. The whitewater swept him over one 10-foot waterfall, but he pulled himself onto a narrow rock shelf just ... Continue reading →

Related To StoryManning Looks Good In Broncos' First OTA WorkoutFirst Time Media Has Seen Manning ThrowingPOSTED: 12:43 pm MDT May 21, 2012ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Peyton Manning is on target and there's plenty of zip on his throws at the Denver Broncos' first OTA workout. Manning ran the offensive practice, lining up receivers, running backs and even fellow quarterbacks during the Broncos' workout Monday that marked the first time the media witnessed Manning throwing the ball since last year's training camp. Up until now, reporters have had to rely on his receivers for updates on his progress from a series of neck operations. Manning has refused to talk about it. Manning was released by the Indianapolis Colts in March after he missed the entire 2011 season ... Continue reading →