Tag Archives: MITIA

MITIA: Class Notes

By alex | Published: 10/18/2004
You’ve all gotten grades for the first period (if you haven’t, be sure to email me!), and generally speaking, the blogs were all over. Some were pretty solid, others needed improvement. Unfortunately, since last week, several of the blogs have flagged a bit. If someone in your group isn’t posting every day, you need to […]
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Readings: New Journalism

By alex | Published: 10/13/2004
This week we will be taking a look at an early attempt at “open source journalism” and reading a bit from Dan Gillmor’s new book: We the Media. (Note that one of the reasons we can do this is that Mr. Gillmor, and his publisher, O’Reilly, have released the book under a creative commons license, […]
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OMG, grammer sux.

By alex | Published: 10/7/2004
The Fresno Bee recently ran an article on the effect of IM and similar technologies on the structure of language (Wut r u saying?). I was worried it would be another chicken little story, but I’m actually pretty happy with the balance presented. What do you think about the effect of IM and similar technologies […]
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BBC, annotated

By alex | Published: 10/4/2004
This is really cool. The BBC NEWS wikiproxy runs the BBC through a filter that linkifies the text to hit Wikipedia articles, and adds in which blogs are pointing to the article. How cool is that? Of course, there is the second-order problem: will (would) blogs start linking through the filter itsef and thereby mess […]
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