Best and worst #2

Best
Citizen Journalism Tips
The cyberjournalist site contains a lot of useful information for my research but I felt this particular article would be very useful because it contains a lot of information on how citizen journalists can handle various issues that may arise. The site has an about section, which gives a great deal of information [...]

Read Full Post »

Best and worst #1

Best
Blogging: the new Journalism
This site is from the UK but still is very informative as far as the how blogging is changing the face of journalism. I found this site while looking for some international sites and after looking through it, found it very intriguing. This particular article may be useful in my research. [...]

Read Full Post »

Issues with blogroll

I didn’t encounter too many problems in incorporating my blogroll on my blog. I think part of that was because I’ve used wordpress in a previous class and knew how to do the class blogroll.
However, I did have trouble with the categories. Once I made a category I couldn’t figure out how to delete [...]

Read Full Post »

My blogrolls

In doing my blogroll, I tried to find a variety of sites, sites that showed my interests, sites of my classmates and also sites that I regularly visit.
Though my blog is meant for a class, I want it to attracts all types of people, not only those that may be interested in my research [...]

Read Full Post »

Women and politics

I’ve enjoyed classmate Leslie Wilkinson’s blog on women and their role in the political blogosphere. I’ve always had an interest in women’s issues and since being pushed into political reporting, my interest has stretched to include women and politics.
On Thursday, Leslie posted a link to Susan Crawford’s blog that I found interesting. On her [...]

Read Full Post »

Blogrolling

How important is evaluating an author’s qualifications?
I think evaluating an author’s qualifications depends on the reason for being there. If you are at a site just for pleasure and fun, I don’t know that the qualifications matter so much. But for sites where you hope to gain information, the author’s qualifications are very important. For [...]

Read Full Post »

One of a kind

I’ve read with interest fellow student Josh Vorhees blog. It seems our research topics are very related yet very different. While I am writing on how blogging has impacted and affected newspapers as well as how newspapers will continue to exist due to blogging, Josh has taken a different approach and will focus more on [...]

Read Full Post »