Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell has written a fine article about some local bloggers and promoted the Triangle Blogger Con. Which is tomorrow! Ya! Better go read it now cause it may not be there tomorrow. a.k.a. Link Rot. Wake up Herald-Sun, if you don’t make all your archives open and persistent your not acting as the paper of record and potentially damaging your future business model.
Archive for February, 2005
Chapel Hill Hearald story on Bloggers and the Triangle Blogger Con
Friday, February 11th, 2005HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a low-cost recording studio
Thursday, February 10th, 2005Barb Dybwad over at Engadget has a good article about using a Mac-Mini as the brains behind a recording studio. A good introduction to the parts you need to do all kinds of audio recording/editing. Check out How to podcast en espanol.
Local Bloggers in Greensboro Talk with Dave Winer
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005The News & Record, the local paper for Greensboro, NC, just hosted a public forum where local bloggers discuss the future of media with Dave Winer. Dave asked some direct questions of the newspaper folks and the bloggers. I was also very glad to hear Jerry L. McClough, the Blogmaster for 102 North Carolina NAACP blogs, bring up some serious gaps in local reporting. We need more perspectives to reach a wider audience! Here’s the Greensboro NAACP blog. Also, Dave talked about the beginning of podcasting too.
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The irony of bloggy spokesmodels
Tuesday, February 8th, 2005Roxanne Cooper asks a interesting question over at Morph, the media center blog. Her words, “There are a handful of old white men who usually serve as the official spokes models for blogs/ citizens-based media/ two-way media/ grassroots media as it relates to the future of journalism. Most of them spent their younger, productive days toiling in legacy media. Does anyone else see the irony in this?” Hmm.. this is ironic. I posted a response. Read it there or here.
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Stan Goff, The Feral Scholar
Tuesday, February 8th, 2005Over the weekend Ruby and I helped the wonderful marxist, writer, ex-army, activist Stan Goff get his new Mac Mini set up. Ruby also created a word press blog for him. He’s taken to blogging like a fish to water! It’s been less than 72 hours and he already has tons of his writing up. Go on over to stangoff.com and check it out. To give you a bit more context, check out two of the books he’s written. Hideous Dream: A Soldier’s Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti and Full Spectrum Disorder The Military in the New American Century
An Introduction to Activism on the Internet
Tuesday, February 8th, 2005John Emerson has written a pretty comprehensive outline about online activism called, An Introduction to Activism on the Internet. It’s in draft form now and he’s accepting comments blog style. Go on over, learn more, and contribute your expertise.
URLs on How to make a zine
Monday, February 7th, 2005What is a zine? It’s a self published D.I.Y. small magazine that’s about what ever your interested in. Check out wikipedia’s definition here. Here are some websites with info on how-to make your own zine.
Zine tips
Action Girl DIY Zine Guide
Stolen Sharpie Revolution is a good book/zine from Microcosm Publishing about how-to make a zine.
Howtoons: cartoon how-tos for kids
Monday, February 7th, 2005“Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids “How To” build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all, including the pre-literate. Our Howtoons are designed to encourage children to be active participants in discovering the world through Play-that-Matters — fun, creative, and inventive — and to rely a lot less on mass-consumable entertainment.”
Interview with Brian Russell
Sunday, February 6th, 2005Yep…it’s an interview with me by Roch Smith of greensboro101.com. After the interview/discussion Roch and I had last week he “turned the tables” and asked some direct questions about AudioActivism and where I’m coming from.
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Altering a Newspaper’s Archives?
Friday, February 4th, 2005I just read a editor’s concern, on a journalism email list, that I had never thought of before. That newspapers, “generally prohibit anything except links back to their own sites.” because they fear the written content would be altered. A valid concern in the digital age were everything is changeable and it’s not always clear who you can trust. Is there a lot of worry among newspapers that a change in content out on the web could be taken for “truth” from a newspaper and cause a libel landslide?
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