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16 Nov 09
How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times
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Collaborative reporting: You may notice that double bylines aren't very common. That's because trying to co-author a news story stinks.
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The process usually involves one reporter talking to and researching a few things and another following a different set of sources and finally combining their findings toward the end. This can result in a mess of incompatible and unrelated research that gets either thrown out or somewhat-awkwardly wiggled in.
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13 Nov 09
Leninism 2.0: Gramsci on Web 2.0
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For Gramsci the act of writing about struggle by the participants is central to the formation of class consciousness.
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This has implications for the role of the revolutionary publication. It means that a publication is not just vital as a propagandist, agitator and organiser (as Lenin describes in What is to be done?) but actually plays a central role in the formation of the class "for itself".
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17 Oct 09
Bloggers Against Torture
The Nation's feature on Egyptian bloggers' fight against police brutality
01 Oct 09
Coming to Twitter: Create Sharable Lists of Users
Looking forward to that update.. It should make my tweeting life much easier.
23 Sep 09
YouTube Comes To A 5-Star Realization: Its Ratings Are Useless
I admit, since I started using Youtube I always rate 4 or 5 whatever I'm watching. May be Youtube and the other similar services need to be more creative and come up with another system for the ratings.
16 Aug 09
MediaShift . How U.S. Departments of Defense and State Differ in Social Media Approach | PBS
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"There is no more powerful voice than a young officer or a young enlisted man or woman talking about what it is like to serve their country," said Floyd.
15 Aug 09
12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive
I'm not sure I fully agree with all the points, but the article is worth reading, poses some good questions and details challenges faces print newspapers industry in today's world.
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