While our JMSC 6019 class has been having fun and getting familiar with Google Reader, Yahoo!, on the other hand has launched the beta version of Pipes which the company has described it as an “interactive feed aggregator and manipulator” and allow users to “create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant”.
Blogger and journalist [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 13, 2007
Week 2.1 RSS Feeds
February 9, 2007
Week 1.2 Hikikomori – social trend or cultural trend
On 14 January 2006, Hong Kong Christian Service released a survey report on Hong Kong urban hermits. It was estimated that about 18,500 young adults and 540 students are socially withdrawn. A previous survey by the service put the number at 6,000 in early 2005.
This extreme form of social withdrawal is more common in Japan, [...]
February 6, 2007
Week 1.1 Journalist-blogger
Anthony Moor’s article and the story on Fang Wang of the Financial Times had made a strong point on the immediate need of web literacy as for a journalist.
The purpose of acquiring all these online skills is for us to apply the fundamental news reporting principles and disciplines (e.g. accuracy, fairness etc.) in the Internet [...]
February 2, 2007
New Blog
Okay. Here comes another blog of mine. Right now, I am feeling a little guilty of having used up so much cyberspace that ended up becoming cyberwaste (not that anyone would care though).
One question that stuck in my head throughout the JMSC 6019B class tonight, was “how many blogs is Rebecca MacKinnon managing and how can she [...]
