Thursday, June 25, 2009

Summer fun for journalism students and grads

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Mark Luckie has an inspiring list of 30 Things You Should Do This Summer for journalism school grads, most of which involve getting practic...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Searching & graphing public data using Google

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A new data-visualization feature was added to Google search a couple of months ago, while I wasn't paying attention to anything but end-...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Browsing ideas for Boston's news future

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In August the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication will make Boston the scene of its annual convention. Newcomer...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

A risible or banal glut of shibboleths for the feckless?

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If you have accidentally double-clicked on any word in an online New York Times story recently, you've seen a question-mark icon indica...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Finding time for life and "Life Inc."

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Summer reading: I think it was the Frontline documentary " Merchants of Cool " that first put Douglass Rushkoff's reporting a...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Distracted by a Web site covering Dixie like...

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Searching for a D-Day story about a World War II foreign correspondent for a history article, I stumbled on something new instead: Like the ...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Journalism as a pro-am lifestyle... sometimes with music

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A UK university offers an MA in Social Media , asking & answering: "Is the MA in Social Media for me? If you are a media or cultura...