Month: August 2005
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Once more, with feeling.
Pardon the dust. Testeroo. No, really, ID… Okay, whatever, I’m in iTunes, it’s working well enough. My image doesn’t come up, but that’s an easy thing to experiment with. Cool.
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Required Reading
If you have any interest at all in what’s going on in online journalism, new media technology, citizen journalism, or any of the other theoretical neighborhood hangouts near the intersection of Journalism and the Internet, Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits is a necessary daily read. Here’s the feed to drop straight into your favorite news reader,…
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Test Podcast
This is a test. This is only a test. If you bother listening to this 1.5 minute 1.4 MB mp3 file, that’s your problem. (second attempt at a proper link for the enclosure) To create this test podcast, I used Audacity. It’s free, and it records. Then the LAME mp3 encoder does what it says…
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Another J-School Prof Wondering What To Teach Us
Denny Wilkins writes at Editor & Publisher: “I teach journalism for a living to college students now. So I think a great deal about the newsrooms and the journalistic life my students will eventually enter. Should I teach them how disheartening it became for me at the end? Or should I teach them about, as…
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Laptop Riot
CNN reports: Panic Ensues In Rush For Cheap Laptops. from CNN.com (AP/Richmond Times-Dispatch) Okay folks, this is pretty good proof that people want technology to be more affordable. The next time a school system sells its used laptops off ($50/iBook), PLEASE CONTACT ME so I can research what the people DO with the darn things.…
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A+E Interactive: How to subscribe to Mercury News podcasts
A+E Interactive: How to subscribe to Mercury News podcasts
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What Is RSS To You?
I’m working on a “What Is RSS?” page for a Web site that’s introducing RSS feeds shortly. Here’s an excerpt: Why should I use a news reader? A news reader helps you get more of what you want. As you start to gather a variety of RSS feeds from your favorite information sources in one…