Category: Education
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I am Jack’s convoluted stylesheet
If the posting is light, it’s because I am hacking away at YARSDW (Yet Another Redesigned Spartan Daily Website). Our old cms/server/hosting company, New Digital Group, merged with College Publisher, and we’re in the process of switching content management systems. The analogy I keep using for this is to say “Just imagine that the Gannett…
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Note to advertising profs, students
Here’s a great blog on the future of advertising…just scroll down the first page to get an idea of what sort of advertising technology is in the works for next week, next month, next year. Also useful: Paid Content and Om Malik. [tags]advertising[/tags]
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New Media Projects Online at Sandbox
I’m just wrapping up work on the bits of coding I did on two projects over at sandbox.sjsu.edu. [UPDATE: We’re currently working out some server issues, but sandbox will return shortly…] [NEXT UPDATE: There’s still some interesting discussion going on about the site and the server, but sandbox is back online. Enjoy.] Sandbox is a…
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A word on Wikipedia
Ladies and gentlemen, Wikipedia is great… …but not for everything. Here’s what I use Wikipedia for: background research. For example, I used it this semester to find the context and narrative of law cases I was briefing, then I went back to the cases having some idea of which elements were important. DO NOT use…
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More required reading
College Media Advisers, an association for advisers to student news organizations, has launched reinventing.collegemedia.org, a site dedicated to asking and answering the sort of questions we’ve been banging around here at SJSU. This is the sort of resource I’ve been looking for — an active public discussion about What To Do With Your J-School. Check…
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A warning from the future…
Rob Pongsajapan at Sinking Ships is musing about his alma mater’s online edition and its apparent fall from award-winning grace. Apparently, Rob worked on the online edition of the Indiana University student newspaper in his college years, but he speculates as to why the New Media talk at his school never went anywhere: Online journalism…
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Should we be saving sinking ships, or building hovercrafts?
It’s been a busy week, and I think it’s time to reorganize my reading-about-the-media habits to make sure I get some thinkers in front of my tired eyes and not just informers. The sometimes-annoying but often-insightful Jeff Jarvis has been around the New Media block once or twice, and he let loose a winner earlier…
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The Future of Journalism?
[Monday morning came faster than I expected it this weekend. I’m starting to get the feeling I won’t fully catch up on little things like sleep and rest until I’m on the plane to Miami next Thursday. Nevertheless, I’m on the train on the way to school, and I’m just itching to put some thoughts…
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Marketplace of Ideas, Part 2
I turned in my Media Law term paper on The Marketplace of Ideas, the Internet, and Campaign Finance Law yesterday, barely making sure all the pages had printed out before I slid the barely-held-together-by-a-staple behemoth under the Prof’s office door. Here’s a suitable excerpt: When Holmes wrote of the “free trade in ideas,” he transferred…
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SJSU Journalism & Mass Communications departmental news is now a blog!
SJSU School of Journalism & Mass Communications Web master Prof. Cynthia McCune has launched The JMC Journal, formerly known as the “What’s New” section of the department’s home page. It’s a blog! To subscribe in your favorite feed reader, just copy this link: http://thejmcjournal.blogspot.com/atom.xml and paste it into the “Add a feed” box in your…