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).

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.

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

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

This probably could be a comment to the original post, but I felt it was going to cover enough new ground to deserve its own post. Discussion on the library listserves about Seigenthaler’s article in USA Today continues. It has become a heated debate on at a few listservs.

People are using it to discuss blogs as well. They brough up an article called Attack of the Blogs, that was published in Forbes on Nov. 14. I don’t think we have discussed that yet. On the first page of that article, Daniel Lyons, basically attacks blogs as slander machines. It is long, so I haven’t made it to the other 3 pages yet. Karen G. Schneider, then points to a blog entry of hers where an open letter in response to Forbes has been published. The letter was written by the Internet Press Guild.

This article in the Onion was also posted as comic relief. This article jokes about the idea of a wiki-constitution. As someone who has published a copy of the constitution, Michael S. Hart, of Project Gutenberg, then pointed out that even the original copies of the constiution differ from one another.

p.s. I also noted on Karen’s blog an entry about Leslie Burger, President of the ALA’s, return to blogging. She got this from an entry on tametheweb. They both pointed to this entry about Leslie’s visit to UNC-Chapel Hill. Free press about our event. No one noticed when Leslie posted it to her website, but her blog, and lots of people now know.

Rather than make a really long repost of what’s on my blog, Ed Cone’s and Sue Polinsky’s, let me point you to the article on my blog.
The gist: News and Record asked both Sue and Michael Skube, Pulitizer winner and Elon prof, to write a bit about blogs — pro and con. Skube’s article excoriates blog (supposedly it’s not on-line), but he admits not being familiar with blogs or bloggers at all. Not having even read one he can recall. Ed calls him to task, then calls him to discuss the article.

This article is about a disgrunted customer writing about his bad experience, ultimately causing mass chaos for this online retailer. He claims that his bad experience just resonated with others and that he was not trying to cause real harm. The article hints of legal action, but the owner did ultimately apologize to the customer blogger.

There have been times that I have been so mad about a service experience that I have been tempted to blog about it. I have blogged about it in general, but have never used the firm’s name–at least not yet. Maybe if I do, I will get an apology, too.

–karen

http://www.unc.edu/~kunza/psp

Today’s News and Observer carried a story entitled Big mother, or father, is watching teens’ blogs which would be very germain to this course. I could bring in the print copy, but it turns out that the News and Observer had syndicated the article from the Wall Street Journal. Instead of the article, you get:

Big mother, or father, is watching teens’ blogs
Kevin J. Delaney, The Wall Street Journal
We do not have permission to reproduce this story on our website.
All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.

Two stories in one! In a story in the Business section of Friday’s News and Observer, Jack Hagel reports that blogs report that Google is looking for office space in the RTP area. Hagel with the help of Jonathan Cox and David Ranii reports on the rumor, the blogs and other circumstantial evidence that make you wonder if the story will ever rise above gossip. Is this good reporting or is it a sign of a newspaper dropping to the iffy reporting of bloggers?