By Mindy McAdams

Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online

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There is no shelf. (There is no Page One.)

Think about it.

I love this video.

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8 responses to “There is no shelf. (There is no Page One.)”

  1. Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Friday squibs writes:

    [...] There is no shelf. (There is no Page One.) Mindy McAdams “loves this video.” So do I. [...]

    October 26, 2007 at 3:15 pm
  2. lkm writes:

    Very creative. Great thoughts.

    Pity the audio was so thoughtless (I was surprised to see “song” credits; I figured it was a set of Apple Soundtrack loops)…

    October 26, 2007 at 6:41 pm
  3. Nick writes:

    Another one of Michael Wesch’s videos. Heard about him last night on Future Tense on NPR. Here’s a blog entry from that show with link to his Web site. Cool stuff!

    October 26, 2007 at 9:03 pm
  4. Mindy writes:

    Wesch’s blog: Digital Ethnography

    The blog post Nick referred to: The Machine Is Using Us

    October 26, 2007 at 11:14 pm
  5. Tony Nino writes:

    Yes http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
    And yes indeed
    http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/04/the_only_group_that_can_organi.html
    Oh, and Ikm:
    Who cares if the music was Apple Soundtrack loops or a sample of Tubular Bells? That “thoughtless” heartbeat helped bring that concept to life.
    Bravo.

    October 28, 2007 at 4:44 pm
  6. Mindy writes:

    Nice links, Tony! Thanks!

    I agree, the music does not bother me. It helps knit everything together. Punctuates. Greases the skids. (How’s that for a disparate bunch o’ metaphors?)

    October 28, 2007 at 5:44 pm
  7. Mike Wendling writes:

    Very clever, very well done. But maybe also a bit fuzzy on the logic? Google may not have categories as such but still relies on keywords. And finding information may be quicker, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s any easier. The statistics about the sheer amount of information on the internet are impressive, but what that doesn’t tell us is how interesting or accurate all of those millions of words are.
    The thing is – there’s still a role for experts in the new digital age (and you can read ‘journalists’ for ‘experts’ here). It’s not that experts/journalists are irrelvant (as some of the most enthusiastic converts seem to argue)- it’s that we need to radically rethink, what they do, how they do it and – at a very basic level – who they are.

    October 29, 2007 at 7:14 am
  8. Worth repeating : the x degree: exploring and redefining multimedia storytelling writes:

    [...] Busy week, so until I can post again, I thought I’d share this video that saw on Mindy McAdams’ blog (where she compared “the shelf” to “Page One”): [...]

    October 30, 2007 at 10:54 pm

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