Ruby has been spending a lot of time working on RootsCamp in Second Life. She’s been using it for the discussion of progressive politics. Second Life is a virtual 3D world with lots of serious implications. Politics is one, media is another.
Brian C. Howard writes on NewsAssignment.net about Journalism In Its ‘Second [...]
I just bought the domain name wii the media (dot) com. Nothing there just yet but I’ll let you know. The idea to buy it came about from daydreaming and my blog posts Wii the Media (duh) and Wii and Newspapers. Several people have told me they enjoyed the ideas. Let’s see how [...]
Chuck from Minnesota Stories has a wonderful video and blog post up called What Muslim Prayer Looks Like. Please go over to his site and watch it. Its a simple introduction to the religious culture of Muslims. We must learn about each other in this world if we expect peace to exist.
In [...]
Right after I wrote the last post I came up with the title of this post. In case you didn’t notice its a pun on the phrase “We the Media“.
Can a video game console help Citizen Journalists? The Wii has an internet connection, a browser, a basic photo editing app (PhotoChannel), message [...]
Newspapers have been trying for years to increase the number of young people reading there content with varying degrees of success.
Here’s an idea:
Partner with video game manufactures and push your content through their consoles. The Nintendo Wii, pronounced We, just came out to rave reviews. We’ll see how many units they sell.
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Gannett CEO Craig Dubow announces the Information Center concept will be used in some of their newspapers operations. Some reports say this will not include USA Today.
The Information Center, frankly, is the newsroom of the future. It will fulfill today’s needs for a more flexible, broader-based approach to the information gathering process. And [...]
From the The Columbia Guide to Online Style
Blogs and Wikis
Humanities Style
Cite blogs or wikis similarly to citing mailing list or newsgroup postings, including the name (or alias) of the author, the title of the posting (if applicable), the title of the site, the date of posting, and the address of the [...]
For the past several years I’ve gotten most of my news online. I’m a computer worker so I sit infront of a PC for hours during the day. Only makes sense I’d find the most time to keep up with daily news while I’m at a computer.
But various changes in my life have moved [...]
A good article from the Tuscon Weekly called Censored Stories: The 10 stories the nation’s mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year. (Thanks Digg user pgoetz)
Here are Project Censored’s Top 10 stories for the past year:
1. The feds and the media muddy the debate over [...]
Via Indiana University found at Craig Newmark’s Blog
Julia R. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University isn’t joking when she says the popular “fake news” program, which last week featured Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a guest, is just as substantive as network coverage.
While much has been written in the [...]
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