Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time. — Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author (thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)…
Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content? People will buy it. Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff. The numbers are…
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…
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Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and…
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…
Note: I was asked to be on Nevada Public Radio’s KNPR State of Nevada program on Oct. 2 with host Dave Berns and Marvin Kitman discuss Kitman’s piece in The Nation Magazine proposing that CBS Evening News hire Keith Olbermann, the opinionated host of Countdown on MSNBC. Here’s a link to the audio from the…
I once said that I left newspapers in the late 1990s because I didn’t want to be encased in amber. That’s cold, I know, but true. I’ve worked for more than my share of “former” newspapers. And at the surviving papers today, I’m seeing many bosses do the blame game and have ugly public panic…