Year: 2006
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Pizzacasting for answers
I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some pleasantly…
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YouTube – Heat Vision and Jack
TV pilot: Jack Black as a superintelligent astronaut; Owen Wilson is his motorcycle. YouTube – Heat Vision and Jack
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Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post
“When I was selected as a student speaker for the New School commencement about two months ago I had no idea that I’d end up on CNN and in Maureen Dowd’s column in the New York Times, among other places, when it was all over.” Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post
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Geek pizza dinner tonight
Just a reminder: There’s a geek dinner tonight for anyone and everyone interested in talking about the New Media (lab?) class being offered next semester at SJSU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. If you’re an undergrad or grad student planning on taking classes in the department next semester, stop by for a slice (and/or…
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Question: Who Is MediaNews’s Dean Singleton? – New York Times
“Indeed, Mr. Singleton intends to make a showcase of The San Jose Mercury News, in the heart of Silicon Valley, as a kind of laboratory for how to meld print with the Web.” Question: Who Is MediaNews’s Dean Singleton? – New York Times
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Building a community with newspaper blogs
John Robinson, editor of the blog-and-citizen-journalism-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina, points to Robin Roger’s UNC-Chapel Hill master’s thesis on “Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs.” [The full thesis as a PDF is here.] Robinson on the broad strokes of community-building: “We use the blogs to help us add information, context…
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Poynter Online – Putting Endings First
“Ending a story with a quote is a reflex action, understandable especially in the crush of deadline, but overused to the point of cliché.” Poynter Online – Putting Endings First
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The Mechanic & the Muse: To Be Continued…On iTunes
“If serial narrative pioneers Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac were writing today, we’d be eagerly uploading their novel installments onto our iPods.” The Mechanic & the Muse: To Be Continued…On iTunes
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Learning Flash, vol. 1
First attempt, apologies to RSS readers, try not to get dizzy, all photos copyright me, etc….
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Sulzberger to speak at Web 2.0 conference
An interesting crossing-of-paths here as NYT chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. gives a speech at the Web 2.0 conference in SF next November. Sulzberger to speak at Web 2.0 conference