Category: Education
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[JtB] 1.0: Chuck Olsen
Chuck Olsen thought digital video might put the power to make media into the hands of the masses. But there was something missing: interconnection.
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First Impressions of the Joining the Blogosphere [JtB] Event
A quick note now – much more coming later. The panel was diverse enough to touch on issues of journalism, politics, and technology – I thought it was a good (not great) introduction to what blogging can do. I would have liked someone to be plugged into a projector with their laptop, though, so at…
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Joining the Blogosphere Event In A Bit
Getting my ideas together for the Joining the Blogosphere shindig here briefly… Some questions I have going in: What does Jude Barry see as the political potential of blogs? Will every candidate start using them as a way to get their unmediated authentic voice out? Or is it enough to use the Howard Dean methodology…
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Prof. Richard Craig in the paper
(hey Mullenweg, where’s that “recover post” button…eh…guess I’ll just write it again and save frequently.) SJSU’s own Prof. Craig weighed in on the “Now who exactly is it that’s a journalist?” question in an op-ed piece in today’s San Jose Mercury news. Prof. Craig, who teaches the grad class I’m taking this semester (full disclosure:…
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More on the Commonwealth Club event at SJSU
It seems like they really are serious about running through the whole “Blogging as Journalism” schtick. One of the organizers stopped by our class and showed a bit of video to pump us up about the whole horizontal communication thing. The coolest thing about the event, especially given Jay Rosen’s recent post about how boring…
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The Future of the Mass Audience
Here’s a few links that go with my presentation in our graduate class tonight: Baghdad Burning: Iraqi woman blogging about her life in Baghdad – she was 24 when she started the blog in August 2003. The Annotated New York Times: Putting the content of the NY Times together with the commentary and criticism. Anyone…
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Another Blogger Talk at SJSU
Next Tuesday night, April 19th, at the MLK Library: Dan Gillmor (grassroots media guru), David Pescovitz (co-editor of BoingBoing), and Jude Barry (ex political-PR type) will be talking about…well heck, it’s being billed by the organizers as “Joining the Blogosphere” and sounds like an “Are Blogs Journalism” mixer — but with reps from Media, Technology,…
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Let the assimilation begin
UPDATE: I am the Universal Oppressor (white american male). Riverbend is a Woman. With a book out. Over at Baghdad Burning, my favorite Iraqi blogger has a post up about the American media content pushing its way onto the airwaves: Al-Hurra, the purported channel of freedom, is the American gift to the Arab world. What…
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Current Work
What I’m working on this week: –Finished reading The Future Of The Mass Audience, starting my powerpoint presentation of half of it for my grad class. Check out the beyond bullets blog to get an idea of where I’m headed with my presentation style, which, of course, does not exist, because I have never done…
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Library Study Time
Spending the afternoon, as usual, at the library in full-on-study/clearly-not-addicted-to-my-feeds-via-bloglines mode. I usually glance around at what people are reading/studying/clearly-not-studying around me, and the glaring amusements today = a girl with her highlighter out and textbook open, unabashedly watching a full episode of Smallville on her laptop + the guy about 4 feet away from…