Andrew Sullivan in an Atlantic podcast on the key to a good blog. And a lengthy piece in the November issue of Atlantic on Why I blog.
Journalism as a conversation
Saw University of Memphis journalism prof Carrie Brown’s tweet about this. I don’t often link to graduate students’ thesis papers, but this is an elegant read: Journalism-as-a-Conversation: A Concept Explication (Word doc), by Doreen Marchionni, a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Columbia (which is still turning out the bright ones). Excerpt: Journalism can’t tell […]
Photographers find unwitting success with social media
LA Times: Photographers find unwitting success with social media. Or, how pro-am and amateur photographers are attracting a following on Flickr and other photo-sharing sites (such as Richard Peters’ Spring lamb photo, above). My Flickr sets are here.
Barack Obama’s use of social media
President-elect Barack Obama today began his pre-inauguration conversation with the American people by giving his first weekly radio address, which was also released as a YouTube video (above). In it he discusses the current economic crisis. Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch: Obama to post fireside chats on YouTube. Brian Solis in today’s TechCrunch: Is Obama ready […]
Google Earth goes to ancient Rome
This doesn’t have much to do with social media, but I just love Google Earth, and now Google has put ancient Rome online. That’s right. You can now walk the streets of ancient Rome and see the Colosseum in all its glory. Amazing. From the Wired blog: The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in […]