Category: Technology
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Are you ready to win the pulitzer prize in multimedia online journalism?
The Pulitzer board hasn’t quite created a category for “Best Flash-based multimedia feature” or “Best Google Maps mashup,” but it has decided to allow “online material as well as print content in all 14 of its journalism categories, starting with the 2006 competition,” according to a press release. In the process of getting ideas about…
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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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It’s a small world, after all
The incredible shrinking world, whether it’s small or flat or whatever, continues to accelerate the pace at which we communicate. VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is a big part of that, and one of the biggest players in just-works, on your desktop VOIP software is Skype. Imagine an Instant Messenger window on your desktop that…
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Link blogging via Delicious
By the way, regular readers (both of you) might have noticed these posts popping up here the last few days. Rather than write an essay about every interesting thing I see, and rather than include some widget in the sidebar that pulls my Delicious links, I just set up a little linkbloggy thingy that automatically…
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Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideas
I’m working on a term paper for my Media Law class. The paper is all about attempts to regulate speech on the Internet, from the CDA and its little brothers COPA and CIPA, down to FEC Advisory Opinion 2005-16, with lots and lots of case law, starting with Holmes’ dissent in Abrams v. US in…
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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…
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A visit from the Scobleizer…
I just got out of a meeting with some of the JMC faculty and Robert Scoble. I was glad to see most of the right people there, asking all of the right questions. Here are the important takeaways, in my opinion: Context-based advertising is a real live source of revenue. Google, and others to a…
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Closing the digital divide – the $100 laptop
It’s been a busy week in Tunisia. During the lead-up to the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN and the European Union both expressed interest in making the governance of the Internet more of an international affair, especially decisions about top-level domains currently tweaked by California-based nonprofit ICANN. This call was quickly picked…
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Copyright Presentation
I’m doing a presentation tonight in my Media Law class on Copyright/Copyfight. Here’s some links to things I’ll be referencing, plus some additional stuff if you’re interested: Creative Commons Housing Maps Google Maps Mania the Public Library of Science the Pizzaright Principle A Lawrence Lessig presentation on Free Culture that I’m clearly borrowing from… Bonus…
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So how do we teach this stuff?
I haven’t taken a class in any sort of computer language since my first semester of college at NYU. It was something like “Intro to Principles of Programming,” and a noble fellow tried to teach us PASCAL at about 730am. It did not go well; I learned little, but earned that one class worth of…