Archive for May, 2007
An article I picked up from the library’s e-database has that title on and I think it takes two very interesting concepts to explain and reflect upon the notions of communities on the Internet now.
Too often we’ve been reading off Anderson’s Imagined Communities or Rheingold’s Virtual Community but sometimes you ought to take a more [...]
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The truth about communities
There’s this certain thing about communities. Maybe it’s because of work.
I am currently working on my Communication Revolutions essay, in which I will be examining and describing the Internet, with a special focus on the use of social softwares and community sites such as Friendster, MySpace, Face Book etc.. I got drawn into the thought [...]
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Who will own the news? Journalists, the new dinosaurs? « The rolling people
megalodreamer has written a very interesting article about the impact of blogs on the profession of journalism as well as the spreading of the commoner’s word that is easily attainable now with the use of the Internet.
His entry brings forth certain issues that [...]
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Haven’t you ever wondered about how tough it is to churn out 1,000 words sometimes?
That’s the case with the monster that I’m dealing with now. There is a certain struggle hitting the 3,000 wordcount although I am only writing the last 1,000 word. Theoretically speaking, it shouldn’t be this hard. I wrote the last 2 [...]
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hmmm, film critics.
putting in a late entry just before the 2,000 worder is supposed to surface.
I have spent some time pondering the role of a film critic. I think it goes far beyond just putting up words on a public media (newspapers, magazines, websites, whatever) about a particular film. By watching a film first hand (and I [...]
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