Saturday, December 9, 2006

Buzzing toward the new year for Web publishing Steve Yelvington points to my first chunk of after-finals reading, a newspaper and media industry trade organization's  guide to "Web 2.0" for publishers. At first glance, it also should be a good way to introduce online journalism students to the latest mountain of buzzwords... and then tell them to show restraint in using them. For the unrestrained, here's a Web 2.0 buzzword generator, and something similar with a less-polite name. Meanwhile, Tim O'Reilly, who amplified the buzz with his Web 2.0 tech/exec conferences, has decided to offer publishing executives their own techno-futurist gathering next summer. The name "Publishing 2.0" was already taken, so he's calling it "Tools of Change." (Steve also points out an IFRA editing glitch in transcribing O'Reilly's mention of "Jengo," meaning "Django," the Web publishing platform some of us are learning about at UT. Come to think of it, a new Django book is on that year-end reading list, too. And maybe for Christmas I'll get some  Django Reinhardt CDs to play in the background.) 3:23:24 PM    comment []

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