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 [...]
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 [...]
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 news. [...]
I’m playing with a new site design, so things will seem weird for a while. Bear with me.
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 recent [...]
