Week 5.1 CCC in the WWW

Creative Commons Copyright in the World Wide Web
As discussed in his chapter on legal and ethical issues, Foust mentioned that “online journalist should generally assume anything you encounter on the Internet is copyright unless it is expressly offered for public domain use.”
However, as the use of shared materials kept growing on the Internet, users have [...]

Week 4.1 Tagging

Tags, labels, bookmarks, which ever way you want to call it, categorize the vast web contents. They are something that netizens are obliged to do. Knowing about tagging will allow you to have a more enjoyable experience in searching for blog entries at technorati.com or photos at www.flickr.com.
However, this kind of layman categorization [...]

Week 2.1 RSS Feeds

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 [...]

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 [...]