Archive for November, 2005



Jeff Jarvis has a link to a survey by Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern for none traditional journalists. In basic terms, what are the skills for tomorrow’s journalists and media people going to be?
It takes about 5 minutes.
On a related note, I’ve had this sitting around to link to, seems as good a time as [...]

Lifesite News, which is an online Canadian Catholic site, puts the talk show’s resignation Monday night in a bit of a different spin.
Micheal Coren works in media. It’s a job. Radio talk shows are very hard work. Radio is it’s own meduim and people hear what they think they hear, not what is necessarily being said or [...]

Jay Currie weighs in on Pajamas Media, an advertising blogging network that is getting more attention than I’ve ever seen in the blogosphere.
There are blogging networks, there is citizen journalism, and as blogging becomes more well known, there will be more.
However, Pajamas Media has become everything it probably never intended to be - a blog [...]

The first round of voting has begun for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards.
Several are in the best religious blog, including mine.
You can vote once a day - the first round of voting closes November 30th.
Canadian Blog Awards 2005 voting page
I encourage you to check out the good Canadian blogs in all the categories.

Can You Hear Me Now? has a wonderful rant about automatic windshield wipers. Really.
Happy Thanksgiving to my friends south of the border.

RSS - Really Simple Syndication wasn’t simple the first time I tried it about two years ago. A simple definition is:

It is an alternative means of accessing the vast amount of information that now exists on the world wide web. Instead of the user browsing websites for information of interest, the information is sent [...]

Interesting article in The Herald Tribune about the explosion of Chinese blogs. 

The number of blogs in China range from a million to two million, and the population is growing fast. Under President Hu Jintao, the government has waged an energetic campaign against freedom of expression - prohibiting the promotion of public intellectuals by the news media [...]

No, I’m not talking about the criticism leveled at a poor start up by an ad revenue generating blog network called Pajamas Media. They got a lot of buzz because they promised more than they can deliver in the ‘citizen journalism’ department. I’m referencing the real deal.
In a post at Committee to Protect Bloggers, Curt explains [...]



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