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, […]
My review of Lessig’s ‘Free Culture’
When future generations look back at this unsettled era in which we’re transitioning from an analog to a digital society, Larry Lessig‘s works will provide a treasure trove. In his first book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, dark forces were gathering, seeking ways to use code as a sort of privatized law to hem […]
A day at the bookstore
I haven’t had time to do much of anything while writing this book on the digital media revolution, so I’m behind on my reading. I’ll be flying to Florida Wednesday for a journalism symposium, so I headed to Borders yesterday to pick up some books. Here’s my shopping list, and here’s what they had in. […]
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 […]