I am intrigued by spontaneous meetups of people, and here is a new fad in London: Mobile Clubbing
Hard Dance London explains: “Simply, mobile clubbing is turning up at a pre-arranged public place on mass where you begin to dance to the sound of your own personal stereo (iPods).”
If dancing is not your thing, how about […]
Earlier in an IM Interview Buzz Merritt said change in journalism is generational. So maybe there is good news when a student editor at the University of Alabama’s Dateline Alabama makes connections between blogs and public journalism as Patrick Beeson does in his article: ‘Blogs’ Inject Mainstream Media with Public Participation
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) just finished a two-day conference in Prague entitled: Beyond the Printed Word.
Summaries of the panels are now posted. Some of the topics include: Getting the Most from SMS or text messaging, Digital TV: Friend or Foe for Newspapers?, E-ink and E-paper: A New Mobile Device?, New York, New York: […]
Wired News tell us of a Miss Digital World beauty pageant. A promoter in Italy is trying to start a Computer Generated talent agency. People produce virtual beautiful images, which he then sell as ad and cover models for all kinds of publications.
I don’t care too much about that, although it is interesting. I […]
A key quote: People are very suspicious now of the Mainstream Media agenda, and bloggers are uniquely poised to address that.
Yesterday we ran Part I of Warren Kinsella’s advice from the Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference on how blogs, if they were candidates, could get elected. Here is a […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.