Wk5, TH - Blogs As Citizen Journalism Cont’d
This week’s questions:
- What’s the difference between”personal” journalism and “news”? What’s an “act of journalism”?
- Newspapers go hyper-local (what’s that?)
- Technologies: Newsvine
(1) Commenting As Conversation
- Real politics made for real people (Jessica)
- The ‘public beta’ without the ‘right spirits’ (Lorin)
- Blogging because lives depend on it (Samantha)
Revisit the post you commented on Tuesday. Read everyone else’s comment — including the author. Make at least one more comment — either “big picture” (general) or specific (reference *a* comment — Kathy will demo how to find the link)
Discussion about comments - from author & reader/participant point of view
(2) Link Posts
- King of the Link Blog (TalkingPointsMemo)
- More examples (one, two, three)
- Journalism blogs to follow
- Politics blogs to follow (in work)
- Pair & review each other’s link post due today; chat and then back to the table.
Reminder: categorize these posts as ASSIGNMENT not as reading! Also, remember to give yourself a profile image (your profile and personal options) — an avatar is OK but there should be *something* there!
(3) Technologies:
(4) VoteAbsentee.us
- Groups
- Talk about possible content
- How do you think you’ll find the secretary of state’s website for your states?
- Create WetPaint accounts; join the wiki
(5) Discussion re “ah-ha’s” and the rest of our time together
