Importing from Boblog.blogspot.com
This is a test of synergy-through-redundancy between blogging platforms. The items below were originally published at http://boblog.blogspot.com and I'm reproducing them here with a basic "copy and paste" of the HTML code. (Plus a little cleanup to remove Blogger-editing-system and "mailto" links.) The time stamps should still be permalinks back to the original posts done with Blogger.
Since the technique apparently works, during the school year I may use Radio Userland for more "essay" style posts, and Blogger for "bookmark" links, which I'll aggregate here from time to time so that my students don't have to subscribe to feeds for two blogs. A daily blog post explains the differences between the two programs.
Wednesday,
May 17, 2006 Salon.com
Technology | ?Ay caramba! MacBook is hot" When I smelled bacon wafting from my new
computer, I was thrilled -- until I realized it was the smell of my
thighs igniting..." Includes suggestions for
using the MacBook to thaw frozen food, dry socks, etc. I wonder if the
black or white MacBooks are cooler than the metal MacBook Pro in the
article.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Serendipity
of (Communication and) Technology Careers: Tim O'Reilly,
founder of the technology-focused book publishing empire, told Berkeley
information science grads to realize that to many they speak "a private
language that sets us apart like one of the secret societies depicted
in The Da Vinci Code!" Not a technologist
by training, O'Reilly said that helping a programmer friend with a
writing project was the turning point in his life. "I never
imagined that I'd build a career as a technical writer, publisher, and
entrepreneur. My training was in Greek and Latin
Classics!" Hey, wait a minute. Greek... Latin... Da
Vinci Code... Hmm. Conspiratorial or not, O'Reilly's talk
includes a valiant attempt to survey the current "Web 2.0" scene in
language that wouldn't completely befuddle the parents in the
graduation audience. Well, not completely. See Full
text on his blog. (tx, rex)
KnoxViewers Night Out |
KnoxViews: "Who: Anybody reading this What:
KnoxViewers Night Out When: Wednesday, May 24th, 6:00
PMish Where: Downtown Grill and Brewery, East TN History
Center Auditorium"
Thursday, April 13,
2006 paulconley:
Students, teachers and
visionariesSeasonal food for thought from
media consultant Paul
Conley -- highly recommended to seniors writing their
resumes... and to younger students thinking about taking my new online
journalism class in the fall: "Last week I visited Northwest Missouri
State's new media program... So I've been giving a lot of thought of
late to the next generation of journalists. And much of what I've been thinking
hasn't been positive."Perhaps the strangest thing I've run
into is what I've come to think of as the silo student. Kids keep
handing me resumes that look like they were written 20 years ago. They
mention the student newspaper, the yearbook and the college literary
magazine. But they don't mention Web sites, blogs, email newsletters,
podcasts, html skills, citizen journalism projects, video, etc.
"And when I ask the students about their online experience,
I get these weird responses. Lots of them tell me 'I only want to work
for a newspaper.' Lots of them say things like 'I'm going to be a
writer, not anything else.' Some seem genuinely perplexed and ask me if
I think 'most newspapers have Web sites?' or if 'reporters need to do
things on the Web?'"
New
media lessons from magazines - Editors Weblog: "It's not just
newspapers and television. Magazines are also fighting to adapt to new
media. If they haven't already, newspapers could learn from several
developments that took place over the past week in the industry of
their smaller cousins, some of which could be used to attract young
readers." After you've followed that link, here's
the quiz -- name the magazine publishing company that is: 1.
Cutting back magazine jobs. 2. Increasing "new media jobs"
(but not by as much as the print-side cuts), and -- perhaps just for
irony -- 3. Launching a website "aimed at office workers
looking to waste time." Presumably people from
category #1 are not part of the intended audience for publication #3.
Wednesday, April 12,
2006 Murdoch
speech at Stationers Hall - Times Online: Fox boss says
"great content" will preserve news organizations
"What happens to
print journalism in an age where consumers are increasingly being
offered on-demand, interactive, news, entertainment, sport and
classifieds via broadband on their computer screens, TV screens, mobile
phones and handsets?"The answer is that great journalism
will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are
the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed
the mind and move the heart."And, crucially, newspapers must give
readers a choice of accessing their journalism in the pages of the
paper or on websites such as Times Online or - and this is important -
on any platform that appeals to them, mobile phones, hand-held devices,
ipods, whatever. As I have said newspapers may become news-sites. As
long as news organisations create must-read, must-have content, and
deliver it in the medium that suits the reader, they will
endure."Great content always has been, and I think always will be,
king of the media castle."Rupert
Murdoch, chairman of the News Coporation media empire, gave this
address on the future of the newspaper industry last month to a London
organization with an impressive name: the Worshipful Company of Stationers
And Newspaper Makers. (Thanks, Hannah) Monday, March 13,
2006
Great timing... Just when I have
classes writing about "watchdog reporting," I've stumbled on a story
about a do-it-yourself watchdog in Memphis. I don't know anything about
Memphis politics and I haven't read much of Joe Saino's website,
memphiswatchdog.org, but the message on his homepage is
encouraging (just ignore the very-1996 graphics and hard-to-read
upper-case type):
A
NEW WEBSITE FOR MEMPHIS TAXPAYERS WILL HELP YOU TO KEEP UP WITH WHAT
THE POLITICIANS AND DOING AND NOT DOING IN MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY.
ALSO IT WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED ABOUT THE MEMPHIS CITY ADMINISTRATION,
THE MEMPHIS CITY COUNCIL,THE SHELBY COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND ALL THOSE
THINGS THAT ARE NOT REPORTED IN THE LOCAL
MEDIA. Here in Knoxville
we have some watchdog-like activity from time to time in local blogs,
including the group site KnoxViews, but I haven't seen a statement of
purpose quite like Saino's. (Tuesday Update: Coincidentally, while I was typing this
blog entry yesterday afternoon, the publisher of KnoxViews was writing
up his first on-the-scene crime story, about Monday's bank robbery in
Maryville, complete
with photos of police on the
job.)
The watchdog role of the press is also
in the news as a celebration of Sunshine Week... an attempt by news organizations
to draw attention to open meeting laws -- and Tennessee's a bill
intended to give the state's version sharper
teeth.
Michael
Silence at the News
Sentinel calls this the quote of the
day:
Tennessee has sunshine laws not just for state
government, but also for local governments. However, those laws have no
punishments associated with them. As a parent, I know better than to
make rules without consequences. -- Bob
Krumm on Sunshine
Week
Wearing his other
blog hat at Facing
South (instead of KnoxViews), R.Neal
says: Somehow, $50 doesn't sound like much of a
penalty for a secret meeting between, say, a wealthy developer and a
zoning board to grease a multi-million dollar real-estate deal. It
wouldn't even amount to much of a tip. But it's better than nothing,
and should help raise awareness of the law. Curiously, the law would
not apply to the Tennessee General Assembly itself. According to a
legal
opinion by the state Attorney General's office, the state
constitution prohibits the legislature from passing laws regulating
itself.
Organizations: Sunshine Week
(national)
Tennessee
Coalition for Open Government
Tennessee Press
Association
More editorials and columns about the
Tennessee records law: Government meetings must be open to
public
Robertson County Times, TN
-
Mar 12,
2006
Much has changed since 1974, particularly in the
realm of communication, but something that hasn't changed significantly
is Tennessee's sunshine law...
Lawmakers say meetings must be
open
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, TN
-
Mar 12,
2006
Local legislators are applauding a new bill that
would bolster the state's open meetings law if passed by the House and
Senate. ...
AP moved Trent Siebert's story to papers all over the state,
where it ran under various headlines:
Bill would fine officials for meeting in
secret
Fairview
Observer
Sunshine Law
changes proposed
Shelbyville
Times-Gazette
Bill adds teeth to
law
commercialappeal.com
Keeping government fair,
open
Knoxville News
Sentinel
Other
voices:
Open-Government Proponents Intensify Efforts
Statewide
Memphis
Daily News
Sunshine Law needs to heat
up
Daily News
Journal
Sunshine Law changes
proposed
Shelbyville
Times-Gazette
Law
changes would charge officials for secret
meetings
Oak
Ridger
Freedom of information could be snatched
away
Baltimore
Sun
Include state legislators under Sunshine
Law
Jackson
Sun
Let more Sunshine into
state
Clarksville Leaf
Chronicle
For even more,
here's a simple search of Google News for Tennessee
& Sunshine Week.
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