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Ryan Sholin

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  • [JtB] 2.0: Jude Barry

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    Jude Barry on the role of blogs in politics: We want to be able to talk to each other, not filtered through the channels of consolidated media.

  • [JtB] 1.0: Chuck Olsen

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    Chuck Olsen thought digital video might put the power to make media into the hands of the masses. But there was something missing: interconnection.

  • First Impressions of the Joining the Blogosphere [JtB] Event

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    A quick note now – much more coming later. The panel was diverse enough to touch on issues of journalism, politics, and technology – I thought it was a good (not great) introduction to what blogging can do. I would have liked someone to be plugged into a projector with their laptop, though, so at…

  • Joining the Blogosphere Event In A Bit

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    Getting my ideas together for the Joining the Blogosphere shindig here briefly… Some questions I have going in: What does Jude Barry see as the political potential of blogs? Will every candidate start using them as a way to get their unmediated authentic voice out? Or is it enough to use the Howard Dean methodology…

  • DennisKucinich.us feed watch…

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    Regular readers of this blog (I’m talking to you, Mom) might recall that 12 days ago I checked out the shiny new web presence for one of my favorite politicians, Dennis Kucinich. Dennis had no feeds. I asked his volunteers/web monkeys to Feed Me. They said they were working on it. 12 days later, still…

  • Prof. Richard Craig in the paper

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    (hey Mullenweg, where’s that “recover post” button…eh…guess I’ll just write it again and save frequently.) SJSU’s own Prof. Craig weighed in on the “Now who exactly is it that’s a journalist?” question in an op-ed piece in today’s San Jose Mercury news. Prof. Craig, who teaches the grad class I’m taking this semester (full disclosure:…

  • The Future of the Mass Audience

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    Here’s a few links that go with my presentation in our graduate class tonight: Baghdad Burning: Iraqi woman blogging about her life in Baghdad – she was 24 when she started the blog in August 2003. The Annotated New York Times: Putting the content of the NY Times together with the commentary and criticism. Anyone…

  • Another Blogger Talk at SJSU

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    Next Tuesday night, April 19th, at the MLK Library: Dan Gillmor (grassroots media guru), David Pescovitz (co-editor of BoingBoing), and Jude Barry (ex political-PR type) will be talking about…well heck, it’s being billed by the organizers as “Joining the Blogosphere” and sounds like an “Are Blogs Journalism” mixer — but with reps from Media, Technology,…

  • Feeds Simplified

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    Hey Mom – Here’s a good explanation of RSS feeds and how to use them from Yahoo: What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines). Using RSS, Web content providers can easily create and disseminate feeds of data that include, for example,…

  • Let the assimilation begin

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    UPDATE: I am the Universal Oppressor (white american male). Riverbend is a Woman. With a book out. Over at Baghdad Burning, my favorite Iraqi blogger has a post up about the American media content pushing its way onto the airwaves: Al-Hurra, the purported channel of freedom, is the American gift to the Arab world. What…