Last week at the AEJMC Convention in Chicago offered me a unique chance to get a feel for how new media is working its way into college program offerings. Because I am entering the final phase of my PhD program here at Missouri, I spent four-plus days during the convention interviewing for a number of [...]
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The Web on a cell phone? A dialogue
The Cyberbrains had the following discussion over e-mail the last few days (I know, we are so old school.) It all started when Clyde asked how Web pages looked on an iPhone and evolved into a treatise on the viability of the mobile web. It included Cyberbrains Clyde Bentley, Joe Kokenge, Jeremy Littau, Deborah Mason, [...]
Upgrading the old OS
“You must unlearn what you have learned”
-Yoda
I’ve been conducting something of a study in individual change this summer, and somewhat by accident. Students in online MU’s masters program have been asking for a Web course version of Online Journalism, the course we teach here at MU. In our brick-and-mortar version, we teach social and participatory [...]
A prophecy fulfilled
While reviewing Dan Gillmor’s We The Media for my comprehensive exams, I came across an interesting prediction about the 2008 campaign.
Gillmor had just spent pages talking about the 2004 Howard Dean campaign, how his choice to open up the lines of conversation using Web tools helped fuel his rise from a nobody to the front [...]
Leading, not following
Mark Cuban had an interesting post pertaining to the news media and blogging this past week. Cuban’s a sharp guy, he’s an entrepreneur who “gets it” when it comes to striking that balance between technology and content distribution. Plus he remade the Dallas Mavericks, maybe he can take over the LA Times next and make [...]
True citizen journalism
We had an interesting email come in the Powers That Be here at Mizzou the other day. It was from Vadim Gorelik, one of the people run the citizen journalism Web site Neaju, promoting the site’s work and some of their activities. A couple lines from an email exchange caught my attention (and emphasis is [...]
Citizen … advertising?
I suppose we’ve been talking about citizen journalism for so long that citizen advertising was inevitable.
The news is a bit late for some of you Applephiles, but I just picked up on it today that Apple’s latest commercial for its iPod Touch is actually a YouTube remake. Apparently a guy named Nick Haley liked his [...]
Web aggregation and no context
A story you might have seen, but maybe not: The Columbia Missourian has dropped professor emeritus John Merrill’s column because it was discovered that he had some information that was unattributed that turned out to be direct lifts from the school’s student-run newspaper, the Maneater. The above link has a look at editor Tom Warhover’s [...]
A journalist’s duty
Roy Peter Clark has an interesting post on Poynter’s web site declaring that it is the journalist’s duty to read the newspaper (”…emphasis on paper, not pixels,” he adds) while we for business models to make online news solvent. The thinking, as it goes, is that journalists need to use their own product more to [...]
The Starbucks model
My wife and I had an interesting conversation today about the “Starbucks way” of doing things. I know there are Starbucks haters out there who accuse it of going into towns and driving local business into bankruptcy, but they are a different kind of company. They don’t go in and slash prices like Wal-Mart, making [...]