Category: Education
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Factiva vs. Firefox
Hey Factiva people! Any compatibility with Firefox in the works? Factiva is the LAST thing I’m still using IE for. UPDATE 5/16: well that worked. Murray Williams, a product manager at Factiva, dropped a comment: “Factiva does indeed have great plans for Firefox in the works. We’ll be making an announcement shortly.” Cool. Thanks for…
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A Face-to-Face Moment
Well that was cool. SJSU Photojournalism Prof/blogger Dennis Dunleavy invited me up to his class to hear Steve Sloan, SJSU Emerging Tech Guru & general technological evangelist, who riffed on podcasting and tablets in education. Steve wants to get together a few SJSU/JMC bloggers for a podcast-friendly interview soon – i’ll link to it here…
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News from the front: Blogs Vs. Journalism
There are quite a few Profs here with more than a few decades of journalism experience under their belts, not to mention years of teaching, and frankly, precious few of them buy into the idea of horizontal communication.
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School Is Hell: Lesson 19
Found this old Matt Groening cartoon while researching an article I’m writing on a certain local cartoonist.
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[JtB] Another angle
Daniel Sato, an SJSU photojournalism student, talks about what his expectations were for the event and what he would have liked to hear more about: “How can blogging be best used in education? In public relations? In empowering freelance writers/photographers? How can future readers avoid taking pr spin and propaganda as truth?” For more on…
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[JtB] Shocking
This is why I will never be a photojournalist. Just like I would never go to grad school. Dan Gillmor, Jude Barry, David Satterfield, Richard Craig, and Dennis Dunleavy after the Joining the Blogosphere event last Tuesday at SJSU. Feel free to write your own caption…
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Chuck Olsen on the SJSU Experience
Blogumentary producer Chuck Olsen’s thoughts on the JtB event, including props for Prof. Craig: “I want to send a shoutout to Prof. Richard Craig at San José State University. I traded him a Blogumentary DVD for a copy of his new book, Online Journalism: Reporting, Writing and Editing for New Media. Craig really gets the…
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[JtB] 4.0: Dan Gillmor
How will we know who is credible? Dan mentioned “new tools being developed” which will help people learn what to trust.
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[JtB] 3.0: David Pescovitz
I’m posting my revised notes from last night’s Joining The Blogosphere event at San Jose State University. This is the third of four panel members. My input is in italics. David Pescovitz ran down a brief history of BoingBoing, the single most read blog around. In the 1980s, the diffusion of the PC lead to…
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[JtB] 2.0: Jude Barry
Jude Barry on the role of blogs in politics: We want to be able to talk to each other, not filtered through the channels of consolidated media.