Catching up with the RSS newsfeeds... Sites and stories that I want to
bookmark here on the blog for possible use in classes in the fall, or
just to remind myself to go back and read the details:
Big Media Has the Hots for Blogs.
Reuters: Established media don't regard blogs as a direct threat to
their ad models -- yet. But they are flirting with the format, fearing
their news could be upstaged by the unbridled mix of opinion and humor
offered by individual... [via Micro Persuasion]
Flaming Lips and Biven's scoop on Chesney and Zellweger
WBIR in Knoxville has a blogger, Katie Allison Granju, "about media, books, music, movies,
television, people, personalities and life from scenic East Tennessee.
Updated daily, except when it isn't."
Craig's List Founder Ponders Citizen Journalism. Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.org, has been talking with Dan Gillmor and Jeff Jarvis about citizen journalism. Newmark told the Associated Press he's interested in it. [Thanks to J for saving the link to a story I'd read and knew I'd get around to mentioning here.]
"But he believes the reason why newspapers are
losing circulation is that too many traditional journalists are willing
to quote politicians and business executives even if they're blatantly
lying -- merely for the sake of perceived objectivity. He'd prefer an
"open source" model of journalism where legions of volunteers act as
writers, assignment editors and fact checkers to challenge mainstream
journalists."
Huffington Uber-Blog Launches. "The Huffington Post
has launched and it's part-Drudge (though from a different
perspective), part blog of blogs. It's obviously version 1.0, which
means you should give it time to settle down.
The great Harry Shearer will Eat the Press
-- this could be fun.
Overall, the site seems to be aiming at the role of op-ed page of the
Net. I'm watching with great interest, and reading some of it, too." [That's Dan Gillmor's item on the launch.]
Dan also had a toast to Dave Winer on his 50th birthday (belated congrats. Dave):
I still remember the moment I saw a big piece of the future. It was mid-1999, and Dave Winer called to say there was something I had to see.
He showed me a web page. I don't remember what the page
contained except for one button. It said, Edit this Page -- and, for
me, nothing was ever the same again. While I was grading final exams in Knoxville, Dave and an awful lot of other folks were in Nashville for the first Tennessee Bloggercon. SouthKnoxBubba
didn't get from Knoxville to there either, conferences being tough on
the ol' anonymity, but he put up a bunch of links. So did blogging
journalists Rebecca MacKinnon and Staci Kramer. Sorry I missed seeing them again. Here are more, and many, many more links from the weekend. Glenn Reynolds
was there from UT... (Law School exams were earlier than my
School of Journalism & Electronic Media.) After an apparently
disagreeable session (and too many follow-up blogs & e-mails) about
alternatives to blogger disagreement, he points to two olive branches to come out of the thing.
Finally, two video blog items inspired by a visit to the blog called "unmediated."
First:
Video Blogs in iTunes? The
new version of iTunes (4.8) just came out and it now supports video. So
it looks like we're getting one step closer to use iTunes as a way to
view video blogs and TV-like content (or whatever Apple has planned
too). The next podcasting applications like iPodder will likely support
ways of getting the videos in an easy way automatically (I'm guessing
that it might work now, I just downloaded iTunes 4.8 a minute ago).
Here are some screen shots of the video UI elements that were added. Link.
Second:
The Associated Press has finally discovered one of my favorites, Rocketboom with host, Amanda Congdon. At ABC News website the wire service headline has a nice irony under the ABC News logo:
"'Rocketboom,' Daily Webcast Staged As Mini-Newscast,
May Be Future of Broadcast Journalism."
(Way to go, Amanda!)
[Thanks to unmediated, again, for linking to the ABC version.]
Enough for now... The catching up with a couple of weeks of headlines will resume tomorrow.
[updated 5-11]
4:15:44 PM 
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