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.

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

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

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.

Seems as if Microsoft can’t keep there hands off of any market, from CNN:

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — Microsoft is developing an online classified service to compete with the likes of Craigslist and becoming the latest company to capitalize on growing consumer interest in buying and selling everything from cars to baby-sitting services on the Web.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/12/02/microsoft.classified.ap/index.html