Category: Required Reading

  • New Forms of Journalism

    I’m still mining the J-School resources here. This is a link to J.D. Lasica’s weblog/journalism resource: Journalism’s new life forms: The following links provide information about new forms of personal journalism — including weblogs, collaborative news sites, personal broadcasting, and more — as well as pointers to examples of each genre. Naturally, you’ll start seeing…

  • Link List from Blood's 'Weblog Handbook'

    Just noticed that Rebecca Blood has put all the links from her book online at her site. This is a good practice, as it enables her to update links as they change from their printed version in the book (as some already have).

  • Required (Remedial) Reading

    Anyone trying to get caught up on weblogs, history of weblogs, what makes a good weblog, history of what people have thought makes a good weblog, and so on, should probably go back and ready CamWorld’s rant from January 26, 1999. I have to admit that I used to think CamWorld was a nudie webcame…

  • PLATO People: A History Book Research Project

    I was checking the look of an earlier day’s page and saw that someone had responded to my link to Rebecca’s essay Weblog History. One thing I realized is that I’ll need to go through old posts and assign categories to them in some cases. (This one needs to get the ‘syllabus’ category for the…

  • Bruce Sterling's Contrarian View of Open Source

    More required reading here for keeping up with the ongoing dialogue in blogspace. It doesn’t surprise me that science fiction writers like Sterling and Cory are playing such a big role in shaping the emerging philosophy of this internetworked world we’re building. I’ve always felt that my hypergeek years of reading sci-fi from Bradbury, Asimov,…

  • I get it

    It just clicked for me. Many facets just snapped together into focus. One, explaining why I post in so many different blogs (channels, brands), that almost promiscuous thrill of starting a new blog at the drop of a hat. Another, some recent conversations with business people who understand blogging and are using its process-flow as…