The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism invites you to a Sept. 17 panel discussion on:
Weblogs: Challenging Mass Media and Society
Weblogs have received a lot of press lately, and journalism Weblogs are proliferating. Are Weblogs rejuvenating public discussion?. Are they an alternative to mass media?
Join us in a discussion with:
Rebecca Blood Author of "The Weblog Handbook" and creator of Rebecca's Pocket, one of the first-wave Weblogs.
Dan Gillmor San Jose Mercury News Technology Columnist and author of Dan Gillmor?s eJournal Weblog
Meg Hourihan Co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs," co-founder of Blogger.com, and creator of megnut.com, one of the earliest weblogs
J.D. Lasica Online Journalism Review Senior Editor and author of the New Media Musings Weblog
Scott Rosenberg Salon Managing Editor and creator of Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comments Weblog
Tuesday, Sept. 17
6:30 pm
Journalism School Library
North Gate Hall
UC Berkeley
The event is free and open to the public. Please pass this invitation along to anyone else who might be interested in attending.
(Directions to the J-School) Street parking should be available within a few blocks of the school, which is on the northern edge of the campus.
If you have any questions contact Journalism School New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz at grabs@uclink.berkeley.edu
categories: salonika metablog x-pollen
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This blog is semi-reviewed in A Geographical Guide to Blogistan, starting from the memewatch category (Ann Coulter does Google?), then to metablog, and finally finding RFB. The reviewer doesn't seem to understand what Radio categories are, which is something to worry about, because you can't expect someone stumbling onto one part of your blog to intuitively know the history or navigation of the blog.
Regardless of the perspective, the reviewer considers this the worst type of blog, with links he/she has already seen before and not enough original commentary. Another province heard from.
I really don't expect anyone to understand why memewatch tends to track metablog here at a blog that's (maily) about blogging. Or to care that there is a memewatch site where other memes besides those related to blogs are tracked (or would like to be).
That's part of the cost of doing iterative works-in-progress in public. I'm willing to accept that price, since the alternative for me is incubating things in private with no feedback and trapped by some form of procrastination crossed with perfectionism.
The reviewers also states that most Salon blogs are bad but then praises Dreaming of China and Reverse Cowgirl, while fairly gushing over Scott' Rosenberg's professional take on blogging.
A number of interesting observations about other blogs round out the page. Worth reading, even for someone like me who obviously would disagree with at least part of it.
OK, now I'm running late.
8:38:39 AM say what []
In Building New Communities: Learning from Weblogs (a PowerPoint file), Tom Coates of plasticbag.org maps out the role of personal weblogs in community-building online. He has even broken down the communities surrounding a blog into three typical categores: online shared interests, geographical commonalities, and "real life" friends and family.
Why am I not surprised that Tom makes snappy looking PPTs too?
categories: memewatch metablog
8:28:11 AM say what []
plasticbag.org wonders why journalists writing articles about weblogging consider webloggers to be unable to comment on our own revolution:
Despite their protestations to the contrary, most mainstream publishers who say that weblogs represent a new democratising of the media still lapse into talking to figures with substantial 'authority' in the 'real world' rather than webloggers themselves.
categories: metablog
8:20:28 AM say what []
Seb closes the loop on an interesting multi-weblog conversation about why weblogs have not (yet?) been widely adoped by academics as a research tool:
Stephen over at Blogging Alone mentions Sébastien Paquet's reasons why blogging has failed to become a widely accepted research tool among academia. I disagree with nearly all of these reasons. Below is the list of reasons and my thoughts based on my own experiences:Follow the link to Seb's summary to get the whole flow of the dialogue.
categories: memewatch metablog
8:15:54 AM say what []
For some reason I'm really enjoying Girls Are Pretty, whose author dedicates each day to some specific thing that you, the reader, should do that day.
Still blogging at a low-level. Still in New York. It's hot this morning. Soon I'll be heading over to Brooklyn to hang in my brother's studio and do some work with his computer. I'd love to set him up with a weblog but I'm not sure he'd be all that into it. I may post from there if something interesting happens.
Roof party last night. Perfect for a warm evening. View of the Williamsburg Bridge. Two (CD) turntables and a microphone.
categories: metablog
8:10:58 AM say what []
Krzysztof Kowalczyk wonders about how Macromedia differentiates its various product offerings:
I got interested in creating flash animations. I went to Macromedia site. I was confused. From their product description I couldn't figure out which product does what. Thanks to mostly prior knowledge, I figured out that Dreamweaver MX is for web page design, FreeHand MX for vector graphics and Flash MX for creating Flash. Although I'm still baffled as to what Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio is for (except "developing magnetic Internet destinations and powerful multimedia" that id). I remember that a few years ago Director was a program for creating flash animations but what it is now or how does it compare to Flash MX (it's much more expensive)?
categories: fireweaver
7:58:04 AM say what []
I know that the headlines page has no updates since 8/21, and I need to figure out a way to put the headlines macro somewhere where it will be forced to update periodically.
categories: metablog
7:28:15 AM say what []
