OhmyNews (English version here), the robust Korean citizen-journalism Web site, got US$11 million from Softbank, a Japanese investment firm. Softbank received a nearly 13 percent stake in OhmyNews in the deal. OhmyNews said it will start a Japanese-language news site (when? Don’t know). Full story at Red Herring. Technorati tags: journalism | citizen journalism | [...]
Ray Villalobos has started posting FREE Flash tutorials on his Web site. For example, here’s how to build a slideshow that loads photos or animations from an external source. Ray is the director of multimedia for Mega Communications and former interactive designer for the Orlando Sentinel’s Web site. He’s going to share one new Flash [...]
Pierre who? Yeah, I know. So I read this very nice (and SHORT) piece written by the always excellent Katha Pollitt on the occasion of Bourdieu’s death in 2002. While reading Bourdieu’s (also very SHORT) book On Television, I can’t help but marvel at how the Internet is hardly even mentioned (I think he might [...]
Okay, sometimes I will just have to post something about blogging and bloggers. Not that I consider these unimportant in today’s media universe, but bloggers writing about bloggers writing about bloggers is really just too incestuous for me most of the time. But what I’ve been reading THIS WEEK about blogging and bloggers is of [...]
Something I have been thinking about a lot this semester. I left my comfy home environment last year and spent eight months in Malaysia. In addition to all the cultural knowledge I gained there, I also thought a lot about how we teach and what results we should be trying to produce (because I was [...]
Larry Pryor wrote a good summary of the annual Poynter convergence confab for journalism educators. Something I heartily agree with: “Because online video is different, a convergence curriculum that stresses conventional broadcast production, the use of high-end equipment, news teams and text-heavy websites may not be doing students any favors.” SO TRUE. I became very [...]
I’m listening to NPR’s All Things Considered right now on “live” radio. Sometimes I get home early enough to do that. But when I don’t, I often listen to the program on my desktop computer the next morning, after Morning Edition ends. I thought about this today while listening to someone talk about podcasting. A [...]