Social Change

My how things do change. If you’re interested in how news presentation is being affected by the internet and by blogging, take a look at The Huffington Post which launched yesterday. Is it a newspaper? Is it a superblog? Whatever it is, it’s pretty slick. I also saw a note that the LA Times online has completely renovated its look. ...

Some people would like to forget blogs, but my point is blogging is only the most recent incarnation of something much bigger—P2P. Blogs will certainly morph into something else—indeed, that’s happening as we speak—but what won’t change is the underlying sociological change of person-to-person (P2P) communication. The technologies of nearly-free, universal access to tools enabling people to find others with ...

Seems that the advent of blogs and, next, vlogs is causing some head-scratching in journalism schools, Here’s a piece from Adam Pendenberg at Wired with some interesting thoughts. Should we raze our curriculum to the ground and start over, perhaps, and look to the web for inspiration? Could it be beneficial to jettison "objectivity" and "balance" in favor of transparent ...

I’ve been pretty amazed at the rate that new audio and video oriented internet sites have been coming online. It’s a concomitant of the arrival of the tipping-point for broadband as the dominant mode of the net in the US. I think you’re going to see a pretty rapid switch from the text dominance of low bandwidth to AV dominance ...