Category: Technology
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Your passion, their potential to censor you
Anyone remember that term paper I wrote last month on how American tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco) were helping the Chinese government filter the Internet? No? That’s okay, I remember it well enough to see these moves on MSN Spaces (via Rebecca MacKinnon) as something new, but not surprising. The obligatory Scoble posts on…
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What is your dangerous idea?
The Edge World Question for 2006 asks a truckload of current thinkers to share a dangerous idea: What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true? As for me, I’ll throw the…
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Well, at least Knight Ridder Digital is hiring
Now this goes under the “future jobs for me” heading in the filing cabinet… “Lead Web Operations Engineer” for Knight Ridder Digital. Personally, I’d rather be in the newsroom, but this probably wouldn’t be that bad. Then again, this looks like a lot of advertising work, so maybe not for me. But there must be…
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That said, Wikipedia is the way to find information online
That said, Steve Rubel is right when he says “Wikipedia is the next Google.” When I want to know where to find a place to get my oil changed in San Jose, I use Google. If I want to know more about the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (who doesn’t?), I go straight to Wikipedia. Wikipedia…
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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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Getting It and Not Getting It
Getting it: “This year for the first time I have come to believe that we will be able to tell you about certain subjects better on the Internet than we will be able to in print.” — Donald Graham, Washington Post chairman, via The Washingtonian. Not getting it: Clear Channel sells naming rights for a…
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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 New York Times is Blogging
It’s an Arts & Entertainment award season blog called Carpetbagger. Check out how the Times keeps the look and feel of its Web pages constant. The NYT brand, online and off, is all over everything it does. But hey, it’s the New York Times linking to other sites and other blogs, which is always nice…