Category: Media
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Topix.net including blogs in its results
Topix.net, a news site that provides specialized seaches and feeds for the topics and locations of your choice, has begun to include results from a pool of 15,000 blogs in its results, according to this story on the Topix.net Weblog. So that’s why I saw a post I had tagged “Greensboro” in Topix’s North Carolina…
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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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Daniel Pepper negotiates everyday journalistic problems…
…in Beirut. And when you’re a photojournalist based in Beirut, getting Hezbollah to credential you for their events becomes an important part of your job. It’s not exactly getting a University press pass to cover the volleyball game, but you get the idea. As Daniel wrote in a recent post about his ongoing Hezbollah melodrama,…
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Workaround for students trying to read the NY Times Opinion Pages
As many folks have pointed out, a stable of New York Times columnists have been locked behind a paywall online. I agree with everyone who thinks this is a load of crap. Hiding content behind a cash register serves only to further remove the NYT from public discourse. But that’s a given. Anyway, if you…
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Reality Check For the Paper World
These days, gasoline prices aren’t the only thing hitting all-time highs. Newsprint. Seriously, do you think this stuff…grows on trees? Well, okay, maybe it does, but at $625 per metric ton, every inch costs real live money. Meanwhile, the machines of progress are pushing toward real live e-paper and e-ink. [UPDATE: Siemens shows off e-paper…
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Information is not in itself harmful…
As an addendum to a comment I left on a post this morning by Prof. Dunleavy, here’s a bit of Harry Blackmun from Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976). “There is, of course, an alternative to this highly paternalistic approach. That alternative is to assume that this…
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Scripps J-School at Ohio University Online Magazine
I’m listening to a short podcast about speakeasymag.com, the Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism online magazine, which gives journalism majors, online journalism majors (!), magazine track folks, photographers, and Ohio University community members a chance to get their hands dirty in Online Journalism without being closely attached to the established student media. Check…