I spent nearly three hours tonight at Technorati’s first Developers Salon at Technorati’s HQ in a startup-friendly quarter of lower San Francisco. More familiar faces there than I expected. Among those on hand were founder David Sifry, Marc Canter and eweek columnist Steve Gillmor (pictured above), Doc Searls (who drove up from Santa Barbara for […]
Weblogs
Blogging, journalism and new directions
In advance of tomorrow’s BloggerCon 2, Jay Rosen at PressThink has this: Journalism and Weblogging in Their Corrected Fullness. A lot of interesting stuff here: … To me–but then I’m a professor of it–journalism is always up for grabs. That’s a principle and it needs to be maintained. But to many people I have been […]
Blogging from Florida
A few minutes ago we finished our panel on Blogging and journalism at the University of Florida’s Symposium on Converged Journalism. There are 50 or 60 students and faculty members in the audience, but I’m not sure who is blogging the conference. (The setup didn’t allow for us to blog from onstage.) I promised the […]
Journalism symposium at U. of Florida
I’m off to Gainesville, Florida, tomorrow morning (taking BART to SFO Airport at 4:14 am — ugh) for three days, so won’t be checking email and will only sporadically update this blog. Here’s the event: The Third Annual Symposium on Converged Journalism at the University of Florida. Conference details (Flash required). When: Thursday, April 1, […]
Students ask about the secrets of blogging
Kynn Bartlett, chief technologist for Idyll Mountain and author of CSS in 24 Hours, among many other things, invited the students taking his Blogging Basics Online Course to ask me some questions. So here goes: What’s your blog about? Who is the audience? I began a blog, New Media Musings, in May 2001, and it’s […]