JOMC 191.3 Blogging, We the Media and Virtual Communities

I blogged a bit about Bob Dylan’s upcoming XM radio show and included a link to the Washington Post story about Dylan/XM (amongst other links). Now there is a link to my blog entry on the page at the Post site. Thanks Technorati! and thanks to the Post for including references to blog references (sorta like TrackBacks).

I just wanted to tell you all how much I have enjoyed this class this semester. Thanks to Paul for sharing his vast wisdom and for motivating me to want to teach this class wherever I may go, and thanks to each of you for teaching me new things, as well. Being in this class reminded me why I came back to school and why I want to be a professor when I grow up.
–karen

I’m still plugging away but it’s almost done:

Myspace Music Community Study

-Dan

Ed Cone tells us that the New York Times is starting blogs and that a movie review blog by David Carr called the Carpetbagger is the first of a new online section called The Red Carpet.
A memo from Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman (reposted with commentary on the LAObserved blog) begins “We’re blogospheric” then goes on to make the case for a newspaper blogging.
Ed, a tireless Greensboro promoter, notes “In January, NYT managing editor Jill Abramson looked to Greensboro for some insight on newspapers and blogs.”

Update: JR commenting on Ed’s post says the News and Record wasn’t contacted by Abramson.

Here’s the link for my project on mothers who blog. I haven’t published the final drafts but I’ll be doing that in the next few hours. The link here is the same as my blog link in the link bar. It’s HarmoniousDiscord

- Catherine

I know we have discussed podcasting in class, but I was playing around on a website today and read something more about a person who podcasts. It was then that I remembered my ipod has podcasting abilities and while I know it has to do with being able to watch video clips on my ipod I don’t actually know how to use it. It’s kind of an off topic post, but can anyone tell me a little more about podcasting?
- catherine

At 11 a.m., Dan Burstein will be on the Diane Rehm show, wunc, to talk about his book, Blog and to talk about how bloggers, blogs and blogging have changed life as we know it.
–karen

here’s the link for my presentation:

www.dsicommunity.blog-city.com

i was trying to post it last night and the class blog kept timing out and i wasn’t able to get to it, so i said dah! and went to sleep.
-amy

CNN just launched it’s newest version of its website… from the article:

Early reaction to the commercial-free service, which costs $2.95 a month or $24.95 a year, has been predominantly positive, judging from entries on media, technology and Web-watcher blogs that have feedback on the programming and application.

“The video quality is very nice even in full screen mode … I’m surfing and watching news at the same time. I’m impressed so far,” one blogger said on TADSpot.com. A post on Lost Remote read: “The interface is fairly intuitive.”

But there were suggestions on the blogs, too. “There ought to be a way to automatically continue playing the on-demand reports. Right now, once your chosen video is over, it stops playing,” posted a user on Lost Remote.

Full story at http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/05/pipeline/index.html

Carrying on from Karen’s post earlier in the week, after discovering some libelous and false information posted on the site, Wikipedia has decided to tighten its rules for posting. It’s interesting especially considering Jimmy Wale’s discussion with us earlier this semester and his view that loose posting guidelines were beneficial to community building.

-dan