Monthly Archives: October 2007

Andrew Keen: the hits keep on coming...

By Michael Becker | Published: October 31, 2007
Johnny Come Lately. This may be a few months behind the times, but it is still worth not­ing. Yesterday, BoingBoing responded to Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur, which says BoingBoing’s the Daily Kos’s founder, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, has no real jour­nal­ism train­ing. Zuniga responds by list­ing his employ­ment and edu­ca­tion his­tory, which includes [...]
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Wikipedia: Will There be a Curve?

By Michael Becker | Published: October 26, 2007
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today on a pro­fes­sor at the University of Washington asked her class of 34 stu­dents to sub­mit their graded, revised papers to the Wikipedia at the end of the term and was sur­prised to find how harshly some of those papers were received by the online community. Prof. Martha [...]
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Is The Onion our best newspaper?

By Michael Becker | Published: October 24, 2007
Reason mag­a­zine con­trib­u­tor Greg Beato offers an inter­est­ing view of mod­ern jour­nal­ism: While other news­pa­pers des­per­ately add gar­den­ing sec­tions, ask read­ers to share their favorite bratwurst recipes, or throw their staffers to rav­en­ous packs of blog­gers for online question-and-answer ses­sions, The Onion has focused on report­ing the news. The fake news, sure, but still the [...]
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New Site Design

By Michael Becker | Published: October 20, 2007
I’m play­ing with a new site design, so things will seem weird for a while. Bear with me.
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Site Update

By Michael Becker | Published: October 17, 2007
I have upgraded the site to WordPress 2.3, which means a few bugs will need to be worked out as we go along. If you see any while brows­ing the site, please leave a com­ment some­where about them and I’ll fix the issue as soon as possible. I feel oblig­ated to explain the lack of [...]
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