Category: Ideas
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Has mass media slipped the surly bonds of programming?
Terry Heaton has been laying down some serious thoughts on the future of television as unbundled bits of media, and his model scales to newspapers easily enough. One of the features of the “pull” technology deployed in everything being called Web 2.0 is the natural-but-new condition of the separation of program and schedule. We think…
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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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Sphere beta launches
Sphere has been promised as a Technorati-killer of sorts in the crowded but mostly-inefficient arena of blog search. I just got into the beta, so what follows are first impressions: FAST. Whoa. Very Fast. Cool – you can choose whether to search by relevance or time, and separately, you can set how far back in…
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Where to vote
Heads up – it’s election day. If you don’t know where you’re supposed to go, you can look it up here. [tags]california special election, california, elections[/tags]
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California special election tomorrow
Vote NO on everything. Seriously. I know there’s a long history of ballot initiatives in California, and I know some of tomorrow’s counter-initiatives might have some merit, and in fact, I prefer direct democracy to layers of representation whenever I can get it. I am fully aware that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton shaped the…
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The faster the rabbit, the deeper the hole
Ever heard of Moore’s law? The amount of processing power that can fit onto a microchip is constantly getting larger, while the price tag gets lower. In a decade or so, we max out the power of silicon and move on to other mediums – organic polymers, oleds, etc… Now take that principle and apply…
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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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Pumpkin carving with friends and neighbors
A few pictures from last night’s pumpkin carving party at Dan & Rozalyn & Addie’s place are now online. [tags]Halloween, jack-o-lanterns, pumpkins[/tags]