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Conover hand-coded his first web page on Geocities in 1994 and began studying the digital revolution's effects on traditional media companies in 2004.
Conover hand-coded his first web page on Geocities in 1994 and began studying the digital revolution's effects on traditional media companies in 2004.


He is best known in media-futurist circles for ^\2020 <http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/news-futures-a-whats-next-overview.html>  Vision: What's
Some of his ideas:  
Next For News,^] but also for the essays ^\My <http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/my-final-newspa.html>  Final Newspaper Article,^] ^\10
<http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/10/10-reasons-why.html>  Reasons Newspapers Won't Reinvent News,^] ^\21
<http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/21st_century_tr.html> st Century Trust ... the Techno-Geek Way!^] and ^\Journalism
<http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2006/02/journalism-from-software-perspective.html>  from a Software Perspective,^] plus the new-media posts ^\Web
<http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/coordinates-20.html>  Coordinates 2.0,^] and ^\Foundations
<http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2008/02/foundations-of-21st-century-journalism.html>  of 21st Century Journalism^] (written for the journalism students
and faculty at the University of Mississippi).


Conover blogs at Xark! <http://xark.typepad.com> , e-mails from dan@danconover.com and is @Xarker <http://twitter.com/xarker> on Twitter.
*[http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2008/03/old-idea-has-new-future.html Using the iPhone to read related stories identified in the print paper]
*[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/news-futures-a-whats-next-overview.html News Futures: What's next?]
*[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/my-final-newspa.html "My Final Newspaper Article"]
*[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/10/10-reasons-why.html Reasons Newspapers Won't Reinvent News]
*[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/21st_century_tr.html 21st Century Trust ... The Techno-Geek Way]
*[http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2006/02/journalism-from-software-perspective.html Journalism From a Software Perspective]
*[http://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/coordinates-20.html Coordinates and Foundations]
*[http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/2008/02/foundations-of-21st-century-journalism.html Foundations of of 21st Century Journalism] (written for the journalism students
and faculty at the University of Mississippi)
 
Conover blogs at Xark! <http://xark.typepad.com> , e-mails from dan@danconover.com and is [http://twitter.com/xarker [ @Xarker] on Twitter.

Revision as of 00:47, 17 May 2009

Dan Conover is a writer and filmmaker who spent 20 years in the newspaper business, 14 of them at the daily paper in Charleston, SC. His newspaper career ended with a buyout in 2008.

Along the way he worked as a pasteup clerk, a reporter, a page designer, a political editor, a city editor (twice), an illustrator, a cartoonist, a puzzlemaker, a web director, a blogger, a metro columnist, a features writer and a web video guy. He was named South Carolina's Journalist of the Year in 2005.

Conover hand-coded his first web page on Geocities in 1994 and began studying the digital revolution's effects on traditional media companies in 2004.

Some of his ideas:

and faculty at the University of Mississippi)

Conover blogs at Xark! <http://xark.typepad.com> , e-mails from dan@danconover.com and is [ @Xarker on Twitter.