Remember when the I-Phone first came out, June 27th, 2007? They were the hottest item on the market! People waited around the block to get them, for a full $499. This June 27, 2008 Apple is releasing a new and improved 8G I-Phone with GPS navigation and faster internet connection. While this new I-Phone is [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 28, 2008
You Too Can be a Journalist, Just Buy a Computer
What makes a blog by a citizen journalist catch the public eye? Upon reading Chapter 7 in Oreilly’s “We the Media,” I took notice when describing how Rex Hammock blogged about his meeting with George W. Bush. This was closed for the press, but Hammock took it upon himself to describe his impression of the [...]
April 21, 2008
Drop Out of the Journalism Program, Already!
If when something becomes rare, it becomes precious – then why is the newspaper industry dying out to it’s online form on the internet? Online journalists, websites, blogs and even online newspapers are flooding the internet. Keep in mind online newspapers don’t make mone from you the reader, unless you subscribe. Maybe we will eventually [...]
April 14, 2008
The Transformation of Diaries
The general trend I noticed from reading Dispatches from Blogistan’s, “A Brief History of Open Discourse,” was that whenever there was an advance in technology, there was a drastic transformation in the way people think and behave. I was thinking about how obvious, yet subtle this phenomenon is and came to the conclusion that technological [...]
April 7, 2008
The Future of Journalism
I find it very compelling in the recent shift of the medium of journalism. It is a wonder how online journalism will alter the course of the future. I’ve taken another look at how we get our news and what it means for the future of the newspaper industry. What happens when newspapers go out [...]
