Found a journal

I am doing a large paper on self disclosure and I have to find way to many journals on the topic and while going through one of them I realize it was all about PR. It talks about what a company needs to do to be successful when they are blogging. The article is long and goes in depth more than it needs to but there is some interesting things in it. It goes to show you how the educational world is starting to catch up with the new trends in industry. Here is the citation and I will link it but I think you have to go through the library's website to get to it.
Tom Kelleher, BarbaraM Miller (2006) Organizational Blogs and the Human Voice: Relational Strategies and Relational Outcomes Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 11 (2) , 395–414

Adding an rss feed

Well it turns out it is very easy to add an rss feed. I thought there would be more steps to put it on there. I did not say I am a podcaster for now but when I add a podcast I am going to go back to FeedBurner and try to add the option. I hope they make it easy to do. On another note my plan for my slide show with audio is going to be about historical sites in Mankato. I have already taken pictures of the historical church the Sisters of Notre Damn. Turns out they have painting taken out of an old church in Germany which are over 200 years old. If anyone knows of some other good historical sited in the area let me know please. I don't really want to take pictures of the buffalo statue by the library because everyone has seen that.

iReport.com

So I looked at looked at the cyberjournalist.net and followed a link to iReport.com and CNN.com. It turns out iReport.com is a place where people post news they see and CNN.com looks through the different postings and they place some of them on their website. CNN will censor some of the things they put on their website but nothing is censored on iReport.com. According to iReport.com they have had 89,900 reports worldwide and 915 of them were used on CNN.com last month. There is a lot of cool stuff on these sites and it shows how citizen journalists can cover more news than any one type of news organization. I am pretty sure it is all videos but it is a great place to find breaking news.

linking practice

After half a century of scholarly work, new documents about the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have been made public.

"Certainly, after 50 years, the unique historical value of these records outweighs any secrecy rationale," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, which filed the petition, with support from more than a dozen scholars. The archive, based at George Washington University, is a nonprofit group that uses the Freedom of Information Act to challenge government secrecy.

Among the historians were John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale, and Ronald Radosh, adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and past president of the Historians of American Communism.

Review of Chapter Two........ and that ryhmes

I personally thought the second chapter of We’re All Journalists Now was not nearly as good of a read as the first chapter. While the first chapter used current examples of what is being done by citizen journalist, the second chapter was like reading out of a mass comm. law book. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but is not the type of thing I like to find in a non-textbook.

In the second chapter Scott Gant gives you a rundown of the history of press and the first amendment. He talked about Justice Stewart’s opinion after the Branzburg case and how it was wrong. I would have to agree with Gant on how there is no way you can consider a shield for only organized media. It would leave the citizen journalist with no protection. The major problem I had with this chapter is how Gant seems to put all hope of a shield on the Supreme Court. It is obvious to me how the Supreme Court does not want to take on the responsibility of creating a common law in regards to the Press Clause. Gant only mentions Congress and I think it would be their job to make the law and then the Court can decide if it is constitutional or not. It should not be solely the Supreme Courts responsibility. They should be able to tweak the law to make it better.

The 11 layers of citizen journalism

I really liked the idea the author brought up in the 5th layer of his article. I think every paper which is online should have each of their reporters create a blog so people can comment on their articles and they would be able to justify what they have written. I think when a paper is transparent it increases the credibility of the paper and what is written in it. I think it would also give reporters a little more of a break if they make an honest mistake. They would have a chance to say what happened and people may forgive them. I also think it would be easy enough for online newspapers to have a link next to their stories with related citizen written stories about the same subject. I think you would have to read over them to make sure they relate to the topic but I think you should let the people write how they want to. I think it will give the readers an idea on how reliable the citizen journalist is.