Bob Stepno's Other Journalism WeblogExplorations of personal and community journalism online...Copy editors, AP blog links, old-new media, Sarcasm and Red Wine- June 18, 2008 No time today for careful commentary or even an attempt to craft transitions between news items while suffering the flaky outages of my municipal wifi system... but just enough time for some aggregation and juxtaposition from The New York Times. Insert your own art or irony. In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors http:www.nytimes.com20080616opinion16mon4.html "As newspapers lose money and readers, they have been shedding great swaths of expensive expertise. They have been...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/2008/06/18.html#a804 A missing link in the history of linkage- June 17, 2008 "This will be the radiated library and the televised book."-- Paul Otlet, quoted in an excerpt from the documentary film, "The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World." From today's New York Times: The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web,The Web Time Forgot"In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or 'electric telescopes,' as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/2008/06/17.html#a803 Citizen journalism meets cartography -- a map reporter is born- June 16, 2008 Whose job is it to fix the world While plotting routes to our new Radford University School of Communication home at 702-704 Fairfax St. with Google Maps, I've noticed a common local mapping error that tells visitors to turn down either of two wrong streets to get to us.Google shows Fairfax as a through street from one side of campus to the other; it isn't. The center third has been blocked for years with a clock tower and pedestrian area. It also shows "Adams Street" as a through street...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327/2008/06/16.html#a802 |