Category: Education
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A visit from the Scobleizer…
I just got out of a meeting with some of the JMC faculty and Robert Scoble. I was glad to see most of the right people there, asking all of the right questions. Here are the important takeaways, in my opinion: Context-based advertising is a real live source of revenue. Google, and others to a…
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Closing the digital divide – the $100 laptop
It’s been a busy week in Tunisia. During the lead-up to the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN and the European Union both expressed interest in making the governance of the Internet more of an international affair, especially decisions about top-level domains currently tweaked by California-based nonprofit ICANN. This call was quickly picked…
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Copyright Presentation
I’m doing a presentation tonight in my Media Law class on Copyright/Copyfight. Here’s some links to things I’ll be referencing, plus some additional stuff if you’re interested: Creative Commons Housing Maps Google Maps Mania the Public Library of Science the Pizzaright Principle A Lawrence Lessig presentation on Free Culture that I’m clearly borrowing from… Bonus…
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So how do we teach this stuff?
I haven’t taken a class in any sort of computer language since my first semester of college at NYU. It was something like “Intro to Principles of Programming,” and a noble fellow tried to teach us PASCAL at about 730am. It did not go well; I learned little, but earned that one class worth of…
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Intelligent Machine Debate at King Library this afternoon
I must have missed this in the SJSU Events feed, but Rudy Rucker debates Noam Cook today on the question of “Will Computers Ever be Alive or Intelligent?” 430-600pm in 225B at the King Library. If I get lots and lots of work done this morning, maybe I’ll duck in for a few minutes. Maybe.…
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Columbia J-School launches multiclass multimedia news site
The Columbia Journalist went live yesterday with election news from New York City. The site aggregates stories covered by Columbia J-School students, including radio, photo, and text elements. Check out the “Browse by Class” menu to get an idea of how many different classes are involved. Columbia J-School Dean of Students Sreenath Sreenivasan announced the…
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A convener of communities…
NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at last week’s Online News Association conference: The New York Times is “exploring becoming a convener of communities.” Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits calls that “a leap” coming from the Times, but they did buy About.com some time back, and there’s been talk of turning it into one big stable of…
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Online Journalism – Where are we going, who is our audience, why are they paying attention?
In the course of my regular reading on online communication this week, I’ve come upon a few things I’d like to tie together here to address the questions of Who is using the Internet to communicate What, Why, and How. (Pardon the j-school cliche usage.) Danah Boyd, a PhD student at Berkeley (if I’ve kept…
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My suggestions for upcoming changes in the JMC curriculum
There’s been a lot of talk within the department here about what/why/how the curriculum should change to include more instruction dealing with Online Journalism and its buzzwordy comrades — Convergence, Multimedia and Interactivity. Although I’ve been nudging a few faculty members in directions regarding my ideas on the topic, this is the sort of thing…
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Columbia J-School Dean of Students blogs
The Dean of Students at the Columbia University J-School is using a blog to communicate with students. It’s mostly announcements and events, which means less email from him in students’ mailboxes. He’s not messing around with internal servers or anything like that; it’s just a free hosted WordPress blog from blogsome.com, where I had this…