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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 ...

I’m sure everybody’s seen the news that Herceptin when used with chemotherapy has been shown to be effective enough in preventing recurrence of breast cancer that they halted the study early. Might as  well get on with it. But what caught my attention was the following remark: The apparent success of Herceptin validates the strategy of cancer researchers to study ...

For all you staff that enjoy reading FISpace we have now completed our "un-official" home on "The Link". Our discussion of Flickr, Virtual Relay For Life’s, Nanotechnology and more, now has a online projectbuilt especially for it. If you have access to the link and are a member of the Futuring and Innovations Center please send me an email and ...