Category: Technology
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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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Columbia J-School Dean of Students blogs
The Dean of Students at the Columbia University J-School is using a blog to communicate with students. It’s mostly announcements and events, which means less email from him in students’ mailboxes. He’s not messing around with internal servers or anything like that; it’s just a free hosted WordPress blog from blogsome.com, where I had this…
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Hey professor, love your podcast
New York Newsday reports that Purdue University has climbed aboard the make your lectures available as podcasts train. This is perhaps the most obvious way to use podcasts in the classroom: let students who miss a class catch up with the lecture by listening to it. Professors worry, and rightfully so, that without the direct…
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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…
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What are your “shining ideals” when it comes to citizen journalism?
Tom Grubisich’s article in the Online Journalism Review this week runs down a list of Citizen Journalism hubs and checks how things are turning out. (Be sure to read the comments for insta-reactions from the proprietors and users of some of the sites.) His thesis, after reviewing the sites, is that few, if any, live…
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SJSU RSS Feed via Feedshake
Playing with Feedshake, a service that lets you, the user, roll a bunch of RSS feeds up into one package. The RSS feed I just built out of a bunch of SJSU sources, including Delicious, Technorati, and Flickr feeds among others, is here. Paste that sucker into your aggregator and enjoy. There’s some bigger ideas…