Sunday, January 30, 2005
Fifth Annual Bloggies Awards
Take a look at the nominees for Bloggies and get a sense of the wide variety of content on the best blogs. You can also view the archives of winners from previous years.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
More (free) reading to get you thinking
For lots more about the changing role of the public in journalism, download or read online "We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information." It's a fairly quick read and should give you plenty of ideas for your project.
Students play part in convergence project on terrorism
Students from UC-Berkeley were part of a team that has created an investigative report on how the new front line of terrorism has moved to Europe. Read about the project or view the project. Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute calls the project "a prime example of what many who touted 'convergence journalism' hoped might happen -- journalism that leverages the strengths of each media to tell a more complete story than any one media could tell on its own."
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
How Wikipedia works
To follow up on a good question raised in class: There is no formal editing structure with Wikipedia. It just depends on the contributors. If you go to any entry and then click the tab for Discussion, you'll see how it works to keep out nonsense like "a duck is a member of the canine family."
Setting up your blog
To create your blog, you'll need to choose a title that appears at the top of your blog (I picked Writing for New Media) and an address that replaces the x's: xxxx.blogspot.com. Your address should be unique and easy to remember. I used the course number, mcom407.
To add a link, you just type the words you want to act as your link, then highlight them, then click the link button (right next to the T text button). Then just enter the full URL, including http:// and you're set!
To add a link, you just type the words you want to act as your link, then highlight them, then click the link button (right next to the T text button). Then just enter the full URL, including http:// and you're set!
Monday, January 17, 2005
Baltimore Sun: The New Digital Democracy
The Jan. 16 Baltimore Sun ran a good overview that explores the many ways the new digital communications are changing the way we live. It particularly focuses on breaking down barriers between producers and consumers, and on creating new communities. Take a look at this article before it disappears into the archives January 29.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Welcome to the Writing for New Media blog
To my students,
This will be the spot where I provide updates, examples, etc. for our class. Be sure to check in at least once a week.
TL
This will be the spot where I provide updates, examples, etc. for our class. Be sure to check in at least once a week.
TL
