Jay-Z sees the Web Difference
A NYTimes.com article states that Jay-Z is in the midsts of inking a deal that would make him the third major star to sign with Live Nation lately (w/ Madonna and U2 being the others). The article...
View ArticleYahoo’s New Ad Initiative
This morning Yahoo released some additional details on their new ad program, AMP!, formerly known as Project Apex. The specs are still a bit fuzzy, but the basic idea is that Yahoo has recruited a...
View Article‘The Good News about Newsroom Buyouts’
There’s an article on Slate that argues there are some advantages of the buyouts of veteran reporters at newspapers – new blood on old beats, changes in the ways newsrooms operate to make them more...
View ArticleClass Blog – April 8
1:00 Our guest today is Ethan Zuckerman. As is traditional when we have guests, we are going around to introduce ourselves. (But don’t think this means that I’m going to give you credit for any...
View ArticleDiscussion of the future of newspapers
There’s an ongoing discussion this week on the blog of the Encyclopædia Britannica about whether newspapers are doomed and whether we should care. Among the topics are new business models, the...
View ArticleWhether Internet has fundamentally changed newspapers
Here is an interesting follow-up to last week’s discussion. An article notes how the expectation that the internet will democratize the nature of news and give room to alternative voices is not really...
View ArticleBook Publishing
This article in the Times today is pretty interesting. An author (and management professor) is using computer algorithms to generate books from information publicly available online. The web also...
View ArticleSpoofs and Citizen Journalism
This story raises one interesting concern about the media relying on citizen journalists to provide them with pictures and video of news events – the possibility of people sending intentional spoofs....
View ArticleIs the Web different? And should teaching be objective?
I’m in the slightly awkward position of having blogged some thoughts about the overall question of whether the Web is different, and about how we might talk about this during the last class. It’s...
View ArticleWeb as scandal monger
Here’s an email I received from Kevin Donovan, posted with Kevin’s permission: Hey David, I’m an undergraduate at Georgetown but have been following the class blog closely. I just found this article...
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