Month: March 2005
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Print vs. Online – A Question of Class?
Here’s what we need to truly democratize information: 1. Free broadband internet access in the poorest parts of the country/world. 2. Inexpensive/subsidized/donated/free computers and a tiny bit of training for the same poorest parts of the country/world.
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Library Study Time
Spending the afternoon, as usual, at the library in full-on-study/clearly-not-addicted-to-my-feeds-via-bloglines mode. I usually glance around at what people are reading/studying/clearly-not-studying around me, and the glaring amusements today = a girl with her highlighter out and textbook open, unabashedly watching a full episode of Smallville on her laptop + the guy about 4 feet away from…
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Another View
Steve Sloan, SJSU Tech On A Mission, weighs in on Prof. Craig’s talk in his “People to Watch in Emerging Technology at SJSU” series.
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Convergence In J-School
The Professor who teaches my grad class is about to give a presentation on Convergence – he attended a seminar a few weeks ago at the Poynter Institute and came back full of ideas. What’s convergence? Here’s what Larry Pryor from the USC Annenberg School of Communication adapted from the talk he gave at the…
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Jay Rosen hits me in the guts
The question this brings up for me is one of responsibility. What is the responsibility of the journalist, and how does it differ from his responsibility as a human being?