Try to make it to the University of Florida’s all-day symposium on Converged Journalism. The 2-3 p.m. session on blogging and journalism stars WashPostie Jennifer Balderama, ProJo online editor Sheila Lennon, L.A. Observed blogger Kevin Roderick, and moderator J.D. Lasica…
Category: Blogging
Chafed over chaff
Somebody pointed out today that my signature quote from Adlai Stevenson paraphrases a similar quote by a writer and entrepreneur named Elbert Hubbard, who died with his wife aboard the Lusitania after the Germans torpedoed it in 1915. From Bartleby.com:…
Blogging for credit
This is pretty cool: NYU’s digital journalism class has the students blogging. Scroll down the right rail and you’ll see a list of all the students’ blogs. It’s definitely an innovation: it’s not like you can turn in any old…
Swatting the sultans of snark
Soon-to-be slivered Jack Shafer of Slate.com on the excesses of Wonkette and Gawker. If you’ve yet to visit these blogs, imagine them as the twin offspring of a date-rape incident between Drudge Report and the original Spy magazine. Ouch. Another…
Where are all the female politcal bloggers?
Brian Montopoli writes at CJR’s Campaign Desk that the political blogosphere may as well be an all-male club. Except for Wonkette, it’s pretty much all guys. There’s veiled speculation as to why this is … is it just human nature…
Blogs are ruining her life
Whitney Pastorek on life among the NYC 20something blogger elite. Enough to make you turn off your computer. (Note to any lurking assigning editors: hire Whitney now so she can be freed from this hellish existence. The rest of you:…
On giving up
Nicole Stockdale, who’s been blogging up a storm of late, linked to a blogger who’s calling it quits. The guy’s complaint is that blogging takes too much time to do well — a reasonable point — but also gets into…
Wow, I have friends
Finally confirmed by the fact that J.D., co-host of the blogger dinner the other night, invited me to join Orkut, a “social networking” site now owned by Google. The site’s in beta now, which means at any given time it…
Blogger meetup report
I spent several hours last night at a little French cafe in San Francisco with a bunch of bloggers and techie people. Met a guy named George Kelly, who, it turns out, works on the copy desk at the Contra…
If only racism were the only problem
Romenesko links to this post detailing subtle racism in a couple popular blogs. I don’t think John Lee, the writer, makes much of a case — a couple citations don’t exactly prove a trend — but he had a few…