Rant over - that last post is life at city.
Going to concentrate a little more on a few things that have been raised over the last few weeks. the importance of the web has been raised again and again - Prof Greenslade gets it in to his every lecture at least once or twice - he's definitely seduced by the glittering light of New Media. In the online lessons, the impact of the web and it's importance has been refined. It seems that the old, static web (they write, you read) is dying a death, and Web 2.0 is rising from its ashes.
The thing is, the whole concept of web 2.0 is fairly nebulous, what exactly is it. The best definition that i can come across is that it is an idea, a concept that uses the web as a application. It seems to be a loose coalition of interactive sites such as MySpace, Flickr and LastFM. the key is their interactivity.
These would seem to be ringing the death-knell for old-fashioned, lecture-style journalism. Who wants to be dictated to if you can go somewhere else and make a comment. But it pays to be careful. the screen can be all too seductive. I went to a talk on the late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya - she was murdered, probably becasue of the investigations she pursued into the heart of the murky criminal, business and military powers in Russia. There is still a need to get out there and find things out.
Going to concentrate a little more on a few things that have been raised over the last few weeks. the importance of the web has been raised again and again - Prof Greenslade gets it in to his every lecture at least once or twice - he's definitely seduced by the glittering light of New Media. In the online lessons, the impact of the web and it's importance has been refined. It seems that the old, static web (they write, you read) is dying a death, and Web 2.0 is rising from its ashes.
The thing is, the whole concept of web 2.0 is fairly nebulous, what exactly is it. The best definition that i can come across is that it is an idea, a concept that uses the web as a application. It seems to be a loose coalition of interactive sites such as MySpace, Flickr and LastFM. the key is their interactivity.
These would seem to be ringing the death-knell for old-fashioned, lecture-style journalism. Who wants to be dictated to if you can go somewhere else and make a comment. But it pays to be careful. the screen can be all too seductive. I went to a talk on the late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya - she was murdered, probably becasue of the investigations she pursued into the heart of the murky criminal, business and military powers in Russia. There is still a need to get out there and find things out.
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