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Ryan Sholin

Tag: Media Theory

  • Is Blogging Journalism? Another correct answer

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    Dana Blankenhorn asks the 64,000 dollar question. My answer? Blogging is just a format, albeit a good new useful one that delivers the potential communicative power of the Web to its users.

  • Blog Theory

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    Doc Searls delivered a keynote this week at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, and has posted his slides. Doc says: “Blogging is about writing.” Somehow I feel vindicated, yet guilty. More writing coming…

  • [JtB] Another angle

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    Daniel Sato, an SJSU photojournalism student, talks about what his expectations were for the event and what he would have liked to hear more about: “How can blogging be best used in education? In public relations? In empowering freelance writers/photographers? How can future readers avoid taking pr spin and propaganda as truth?” For more on…

  • ExxonMobil Fears Reality-Based Community

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    I came home today to a fresh issue of Mother Jones, including a look at global warming from several angles. Here’s Bill McKibben in the introduction to the report on how the energy industry (read ExxonMobil) has worked to denigrate actual science for years: The strategy turned out to be simple: Cloud the issue as…

  • [JtB] 4.0: Dan Gillmor

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    How will we know who is credible? Dan mentioned “new tools being developed” which will help people learn what to trust.

  • 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:…

  • More on the Commonwealth Club event at SJSU

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    It seems like they really are serious about running through the whole “Blogging as Journalism” schtick. One of the organizers stopped by our class and showed a bit of video to pump us up about the whole horizontal communication thing. The coolest thing about the event, especially given Jay Rosen’s recent post about how boring…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • In San Francisco Today

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    I am now an official cliche. I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in San Francisco with my notebook computer hooked up to the wireless, and I am blogging. Ugh. If it can get any sillier, Leonard Cohen is on their stereo satellite radio. A few amusing sightings today, but given my city years, it takes…