I only work there 60 hours a week.
WILL is the public broadcasting station at the University of Illinois. We have a proud tradition of public service and innovation in broadcasting. Now we are struggling to go beyond ‘broadcasting’, like everyone else in ‘broadcasting.’
Didn’t make the end-of-May 2008 deadline I set for the new site, but it went live on June 2nd. Not really bad eh? Here it is.
This site should win an award but not for my efforts. Kimberlie Kranich, WILL’s Outreach Coordinator, has outreached herself and everyone else in creating this project. I am but a dumb webmaster.
WILLblog began in March 2004 as an experimental blog for me as the webmaster at WILL-AM-FM-TV. No one else on the staff was blogging yet, and while blogs weren't exactly new they weren't yet totally mainstream and ubiquitous as they are now. I told me then-boss I would spend no more than ten minutes on it per day, as my time was at a premium even then (much more so now!). I attempted to post to it every few days at least, but there were whole weeks, and later months, when I didn't post anything at all.
What I found was that the format tempted me to become a bit edgy. I look back and cringe at a few posts, but that's probably inevitable. I did use it to publish content directly related to WILL and public broadcasting, including streaming archives of various political events. Today that content would more likely go on WILL's main website...but WILLblog served a unique purpose at that time for publishing new media. I've attempted to revive it recently, and may yet find a new rhythm and purpose for it. Meanwhile, some possibly interesting archival postings remain with WILLblog, hosted at Blogger.com.
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