Keeping an eye on blogs, citizen media,citizen journalism, citizen reporters and anything about technology that's news for the news business since 2002. Acting locally in Chicago, thinking globally.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Blogs and blogging conference uses various technologies (IRC, WIKI) to include participants who can't be there in person. This story eb logs come of age as source of news by Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer, stands on its own as a fair description of the blogosphere and journalism multilog as it stands right now. It made me research the conference a bit, too.
Here is a blog from the conference with links to information about it. It was invitation only and I expect there to be information fallout from this event over the next few days as the "technoconnecti" talk and the legacy media begins to hear a buzz.Blogging, Journalism & Credibility » Conference IRC channels
If you have heard me talk about journalist tech tools lately, you have seen me demonstrate "bloglines" as a tool for keeping track of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. It is an "aggregator" that is easy to use with the added benefit that once you start tracking some sites, you can create a web page that will show your take on the online world. The Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference used bloglines for its aggregator. You can get linked to some of the blogs about blogging that are talking about the nexus of blogs and journalism.
There is mobcasting about the conference, too. Here is a very a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2002158836&zsection_id=2002119995&slug=btblogethics24&date=20050124">straightforward story about blogging ethics titled How bloggers handle ethics and disclosure varies greatly by Anick Jesdanun for the Associated Press
I am going into the glueworld of the phone to contact some of my colleagues in the radio department to try and get hem to work with me to organize a workshop for our students on iPodding.
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