Year: 2005
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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…
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Word for Blogger
This is smooth. I assume this is what Scoble was doing at Google today, and what he was waiting for Google to announce. You can now post to your Blogger/Blogspot blog from Microsoft Word. Word Up, indeed. Okay, I want one for WordPress and I want it now. Heh. [tags]Blogger, WordPress, Word, Microsoft[/tags]
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ProfCraig.com – Richard Craig – Journalism 134, Fall 2005
ProfCraig.com – Richard Craig – Journalism 134, Fall 2005
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More Journalistic Heresy: Jay Rosen’s List of Things He Doesn’t Teach Anymore
Jay Rosen of PressThink has posted his list of “Things I Used To Teach That I No Longer Believe”. Jay writes: “I used to teach that the ethics of journalism, American-style, could be found in the codes, practices and rule-governed behavior that our press lived by. Now I think you have to start further back,…
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Second Semester of Grad School Starts Next Week
Next week, Fall classes start, and I’ll be trying to wrap my brain around the following: MCOM 270: Communications Law and Policy. This course has the reputation of carving up students into cute little wood blocks covered in entrails. I plan to be challenged. MCOM 250: International Communications. Given the variety of ethnicities and cultures…