Hello Timothy and everybody,
You have a strong point. Student papers seem to be
really happy to have something un-usual to say.
I am working with a teacher newspaper to have a post
in it. I still have to convince them and to post it at
the right time. But it should be ok.
Eugene
--- Timothy Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I worked during college at The Daily Texan, the
> UT-Austin student paper.
> If there will be (and there ought to be!) some LDD
> activities at your
> local university or college, take advantage if they
> have a student paper.
>
> Often, these papers are looking -- begging -- for
> feature stories that
> involve some sort of actual interesting content. If
> you know (or are) a
> reporter for a collegiate or even high school paper,
> suggest the diea,
> start getting background information down, because
> the sooner reporters
> know what the diff. is between an OS and a computer,
> or between an OS and
> applications (etc etc) the more sensible a resultant
> story can be.
>
> I will get to work on telling reporters at The Daily
> Texan, see if we can
> get a big spread on it. That's a 30,000+ circulation
> paper, bigger than
> most local dailies, and read by folks in the right
> age bracket to say
> "Hey! I want reliable internet access, too -- you
> mean I don't have to use
> Windows?"
>
> In the context of this project, college campuses are
> great also because
> campuses typically have not only a student
> publication but computer user
> groups, often Linux user groups.
>
> timothy
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