My mom has always been our clan’s chief information hunter and learner. That is, until last week, when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer: Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. Mom was a medical research librarian – someone who delighted in being a generous resource for journalists like me. I remember her describing the day in 1981 or…
I was asked to be the wrap-up Rapporteur for the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin last week. The conference had the Twitter hashtag #isoj, and, partly because it is Webcast live, people were watching and Twittering about it in real time on at least four continents. (Here…
What is Twitter? It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less. And it is a place to listen. Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around…
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like…
Here’s the reason for my slow posts this past couple weeks, as I and other faculty herded students from seven universities to the Online News Association conference in Toronto to present youthful and innovative visions for the future of news. First, a video of students from each of the three projects from MediaGiraffe. I’m a…