By Mindy McAdams
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Learn a Web framework, Matt Waite urged my journalism students on Tuesday. He recommended either Django or Ruby on Rails, and he characterized arguments over which one is better as “nerd Pepsi vs. Coke.”
Matt is the concept and programming brains behind both Neighborhood Watch ( “porn” for middle-class homeowners in a couple of Florida counties) [...]
The format for networked reporting doesn’t exist yet, but I’ve been thinking about it in terms of how comments manifest public opinion (as well as an ugly underbelly of hate).
Networked reporting, as Charlie Beckett sees it, is a collaboration between the public and the journalists. It’s not the same as citizen or civic or public [...]
This week is a bit hectic, with a one-hour guest lecture, a two-hour workshop, and a lunch presentation (tomorrow), plus a committee meeting and a faculty meeting, all in five days. This is on top of my regular teaching, and prep for teaching, and the ever-present grading backlog.
So, not to complain, but I’m going to [...]
Please help me with this. In my college, we’ve been working on a list. Rather than a vague list of skills, we’re trying to write what we would expect the student to be able to do. You know — actually DO. So here’s the starter package, which addresses cross-platform concerns:
Write a 12-inch story (400–450 words) [...]
It’s hard to believe I have never before written a blog post about using Delicious.com, but that appears to be so.
Delicious (also known as del.icio.us) is a tool I’ve been using for a long time to keep up with information overload. It completely replaced my Firefox bookmarks (IE favorites) a while ago.
The new post I [...]
I came up with a “reading” assignment for my grad students that would give us a good basis for a discussion about user-generated video. You can see it here: The mwesch Assignment (feel free to copy it).
I posted a summary (with two additional video examples embedded) on Slideshare: mwesch Reloaded.
Last fall I heard Mike Wesch [...]
The good news is, LATimes.com is getting 20 million uniques a month — and that is “about double what it was this time last year,” according to Meredith Artley, executive editor, LATimes.com.
The bad news is, they still haven’t fully merged the newsrooms (and the financial crisis might drive Sam Zell to do something drastic, but [...]
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