Friday, December 5, 2003

Weblogging Meets Journalism in Chapel Hill and New Blog Project Launch at MIT The University of North Carolina School of Journalism & Mass Communication and tarheelbloggers are putting on a January workshop for journalists interested in weblogs. Both hands-on and issue-oriented sessions are included in the Jan.26-27 event. Presenters will include weblogger Anton Zuiker, a UNC journalism grad student who has taught Blogging 101 to journalism undergrads in the past, and Paul Jones, director of Ibiblio, the legendary site formerly known as "the site formerly known as Sunsite." Among the journalist-bloggers at the event will be Ed Cone (Ziff Davis Media and the News & Record), Mark Tosczak (News & Record) and Fiona Morgan (The Independent). Meanwhile in Cambridge, Andrew Grumet, a regular in the Berkman Center weblog scene at Harvard, is running four January sessions of an intro to blogging and news aggregators during MIT's  between-semesters Independent Activities Period. The Manila-based weblogs.MIT.edu site is already up and running.  Back at Harvard, Chris Lydon, Dave Winer and friends are exploring new political roles -- and user interfaces -- for weblogs. 2:19:47 AM    comment [] Social networking software in the news Programs aimed at enhancing human collaboration are attracting users and the news media.  Friendster, Tribe.net, Ryze, and Eliyon are connecting users into social networks; FOAF develops a standard for networking; Microsoft is considering a move in this area, and there's  a patent drive to claim as as intellectual property the "six degrees of separation" or small world theory, which supports many of these collaboration engines. Perhaps most powerfully developed in social network analysis, such theories have been applied to a variety of fields, including internet structure and security. Source:  [NITLE Tech News (which thanks Clara Yu)] 12:51:30 AM    comment []

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