Entries from July 2008

July 9, 2008

People fear what they don’t understand

There’s something vaguely familiar with the attitude in that comic; something I don’t quite understand — why do people continue to cling to the old ways and the dead trees?
Don’t get me wrong, change is scary. But what happens when people are afraid to try new stuff? We end up with ideas for broadsheet style [...]

July 1, 2008

Rebuilding a Web journalism class from scratch

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As the potential handful of readers of this blog know, I’m a recent graduate of  Northampton Community College’s journalism program.
And I’ve also blogged about what I think of the journalism program at NCC. Quite frankly I think I’m lucky to get out of there with any idea of what online news could become.
So [...]