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Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
In the book, We the Media, chapter 8 Next Steps, recaps much of what we have learned in pervious chapters, as well as what the future may hold for the World Wide Web. Dan Gilmore predicts what the infrastructure of the Internet is leading up to based on two main principles. “The first is a [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
Chapter 10 in “We the Media” focused on the idea that bloggers - though at times more free than traditional journalists in their comments - are not completely protected from legal action. Bloggers can be prosecuted for libel, copyright infringment and other law-breaking actions.
While the chapter is certainly important in the larger conversation on blogging [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
In chapter 7 of “We the Media” by Dan Gillmor, the focus is on the development of grassroots journalism, of readers becoming writers. Most of the information wasn’t news to me and sounded like a reiteration of points Gillmor made earlier in the book, but there are two interesting aspects that I would like to [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
Chapter 6 of the book, “We the Media” was about the importance of citizen journalism and “new” journalism that not only informs people, but also opens up the dialogue to include average citizens in places far and wide. It is interesting to note the progressive nature of journalism. In this day and age, a journalist’s [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 10th, 2008
The big picture discussed in Chapter 8 of “We the Media” by Dan Gillmor is that the creation of Web 2.0 has opened up the doors for how we as the public can get our news. The internet gives all of its users the ability to become their own journalist, among many other things. Its’ [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 29th, 2008
Chapter four of We the Media focus on the idea of the newsmakers turning the tables. This means that those who are usually written about do the writing. My favorite part of the chapter came from the section about Mark Cuban and his Blog. I am from Dallas, and have been a Mavericks fan since [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
With the use of all these new technology platforms, users are now able to create more of their own content. As well as being able to create content, users can also influence the ways in which other websites work and are organized. Almost all websites offer some way in which you can personalize the content [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
This is the first time I have used Flickr and it is surprisingly easy to upload photos. I can share all of my photos almost instantaneously.
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
I signed up to use Flickr and posted a few pictures of myself on there. I was impressed by how many people use Flickr to share their photos with each other. Most of the photos looked like they were taken by professionals. They were very creative and used a lot of interesting photography techniques. I [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 22nd, 2008
I have signed up for Flickr, Digg, Newsvine and deli.icio.us. I do not think I will be using Flickr much though, because I’m not too comfortable uploading photographs of myself to a public forum. I already post most of my pictures through a facebook account, and posting them on another site would be too time consuming [...]