Social software with open source beginnings. Looks great for academe.Socialtext -- Enterprise Social Software

Lessig weighs in on the political importance of blog (self-publishing technology.) The idea of many to many communication is the new thing. Has broadcast created a kind of "sense fatigue" that is making people tune out? Keep reading my blog to find out. Wired 11.11: VIEW

The AP goes electronic to better serve its clients. OJC brief

This is useful when you are talking or thinking about working collaboratively. Poynter Online - Principles of Collaborative Story Planning

Here is a critique of reporting rigor that is well-written and hits the mark. How long will the administration be able to substitute appearances on Oprah for actual interchanges with reporters who ask real questions? Do we hear the echoes of dark nights in Southeast Asia?Why Are We Back in Vietnam?

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Why aren't the coveted 18-24 year olds watching TV this fall? Perhaps TV execs should consider how radio moguls felt in the late 1940s. When sense ratios (see McLuhan if you aren't sure what sense ratios have to do with viewing) shift because of new media, it isn't about the content, but the "media is the message." Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

NPR : The Ombudsman at National Public Radio

Mobile Firms Develop Scholastic Test-Prep for Cell Phones Two wireless tech firms have built a suite of wireless test preparation applications for use on cellular phones. By downloading the programs onto their cell phones, students can prep themselves on vocabulary, take quizzes, and work tutorials with practice questions, customized feedback, and exam hints. The programs -- for the Graduate Record Exams and the SATs -- were developed by Mobile-Mind Inc. and Xap Corp. based on their success with educational programs for Verizon Wireless. Those apps, as well as XapMath and XapVerbal, will now be offered to all wireless carriers.

Here is an example of how working globally but thinking locally can backfire. The "No va" or "doesnt' go" was another example of a car name that worked in English, but didn't make the translation to Spanish. Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

Wire-free down under

Uh oh, now we won't be hurt by voting fraud, if we don't know the machines are open to it?Wired News: Students Fight E-Vote Firm

Phone cam news from Poynter....Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

It may take you minute to figure out who the "characters" are in this Australian news editorial about Geo. Bush's visit to Australia. "Little Johnny" Howard is the Australian Prime Minister. How ugly can Americans become to the rest of the world? This puts up a mirror that doesn't show a pretty picture. Stifling democracy at home is bad. It doesn't seem to come across any better when Bush tries it abroad, either. "Journos" in Australia might try and ask the questions our own journos have self-censored themselves from asking, but will there be an opportunity? Howard cancels democracy for Bush and beyond: Can we stop him? - www.smh.com.au

Blog on | CNET News.com: "What effect is blogging having on traditional journalism? Would it ever replace or dilute the value of traditional journalism? It's certainly having an impact. From a blog reader's perspective, it certainly affects where I go and where I get and read my news. It is a more complex ecosystem now, so for the most part, I think they're complementary; blogs tend to be more about filtering and adding commentary and perspective--but there is some original reporting that's going on there. And the journalists who take advantage of blogs, I think, can do a better job of reporting on their areas. "

Emerging Alternatives: A Brief History of Weblogs

Can Wi-FI be dangerous? Good discussion fo the possible health risks.Daily Yomiuri On-Line

Wired 11.11: Open Source Everywhere: "Not to mention that, as with any term newly in vogue, open source is often invoked on tenuous grounds. So think of it as a spectrum or - better still - a rising diagonal line on a graph, where openness lies on one axis and collaboration on the other. The higher an effort registers both concepts, the more fully it can be considered open source."

Non-linear narratives and effective redesigns of content in print. Very interesting ideas and it includes graphic examples. I would like this in my newspaper. What about you?Poynter Online - Nonlinear Narratives

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For Techies, School Bells Mean 'Let the Games Begin': "'I'm not going to say what chemistry teacher it was, but I sat in his class yesterday and played a game on my friend's calculator.' Jeremy recounted. 'The teacher didn't much care so long as I listened to the information and produced on the test.'" Obviously a generation thing is going on. The current school organizational structure grew out the Industrial Revolution, and held the teaching "silence, punctuality, and order" were top goals of school. The organization of the day into discrete modules of a set time with bells to signal the orderly progression from one "station" to another reinforced and reified the social structure that was moving rural people to urban environments. What this article suggests is that the kids already understand that the structure of the school day is outmoded in an age of always on connectivity and 24/7 consciousness. Bluetooth, infared, Wi-Fi all make it clear that bringing a bunch of bodies together everyday at the same time, whether it serves the intellectual, social, and learning needs of the members of the group is a funny artifact. Let the teachers go on in their anachronistic dreamworld, the youth know that time is not a constant in an electronic world, and that distance is only how far you are from your connection....

Media Chain Keeps It in the Family

Citizen journalists, blog "umpires", some very cool publishing and journalism ideas here. Advancing Citizen Blogs on News Sites

New Papers Hope Free and Brief Will Attract Younger Readers

t r u t h o u t - Halliburton Fingered For Alleged Corruption

Bill Moyers on Big Media and regulation.t r u t h o u t - Bill Moyers | "FCC Rule Reversal Dead in the Water"

Wired News: Shift-Key Case Rouses DMCA Foes

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Web designers, please note a shift in the terra virtualfirma of internet design. No more left side nav bar....Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Retailers in the music industry catch on, very slowly, but at last.Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

Try this out. What an interesting take on news in our world today. APT means approximate reading time, and this article even has a built in clock to so you can time yourself. Can you write with your reader's time in mind, as well as their need to know? Poynter Online - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Wired News: Military Training Is Just a Game

News professionals and students, notice how Internet use is resulting in decreases of time spent with other media. This study tracked business executives usage of various media. For them, the web has become number 1.Professional: Biz Leaders Prefer Web

Here is a way to be able to archive and edit what is on your website with METADATA. Guardian Unlimited | Online | Inside IT: Seeing is believing

Boston.com / Sports / Columnists / Eric Wilbur / Comments from the Coliseum

I'm not the only dreamer...why can't all my wireless devices be connected to the net and just transmit my data, voice or pixels, seamlessly? Web Technology / Net transparency on the way says Sprint. But is it enough? - Tech Update - ZDNet

OJR article: The Third Wave of Online Journalism