My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Category Archives: Social Networking
In which a choice is made
This is, perhaps, the best illustration I have seen so far of what Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is about -- at least the best illustration in comic strip form.
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Cognitive Surplus and The Shallows
I am currently reading Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I hope to post a few thoughts here when I have time to set them in electrons. I also bought The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I will read immediately after Shirky’s book. I imagine that [...]
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Cooperative commenting
Important thoughts on commenting from Jeff Jarvis: Once we in media are finished with our work we allow the public to comment. We throw our product over the wall and let people react while we retreat into the castle and shut the gates so we cannot hear them. They know they are talking to bricks [...]
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Info about Twitter for journalists
An absolute bevy of information for journalistic uses of Twitter from Mr. Steve Buttry. Read it, and read the article he links to by Julie Posetti; it’s an analysis of Twitter use by Australian journalists.
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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