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blogik

A work in progress as you might imagine … (I like lots of other stuff - my family, tennis, Arsenal FC, squash, Radiohead, beer, Dostoevsky etc. - that probably won’t be on here). OK, Arsenal might make it on in some passing reference or whatever. But really this is just sort of a rambling array of found material that I might need later - sort of a blog within a blog. “Blogik” comes from what the Russian dimunitive for blog might be (”little blog”). It’s more for my edification than anything else:

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Interesting way of bringing cool scholarship online. FlowTV.

Howard Rheingold’s Participatory Media Literacy course website.

Wikis in general intrigue me a great deal. I am particularly interested in their potential as a form of journalism, both within the “mainstream media” and in the various iterations of “citizen journalism.” I love this quote:

A wiki, at its most efficient and most stunning, is not a category. It is not a technology. It is not a notebook. It is not a website. It is not a medium. It is not a community. It is not a place. Rather, it is the sum totality of everything, including all those things; and all those things centre around the dynamic of its essential parts and dimensions: community, content, code, network, atemporal, place.” –MeatBall:WikiWay

I nicked that from the website of Angela Beesley.
Wikipedia - I have only just gotten wind of the true meaning of Wikipedia - its community, its sheer act of boldness. Fascinating place and a great deal misunderstood. Now I spend a lot of my time online there. (user:lyonspen) I am becoming a disciple.

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www.globalvoicesonline.org

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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Here is an open interview from October 2006 with Jay Rosen as he was gearing up newassignment.net.

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A great project:

witness.org

Interview with Witness founder Peter Gabriel - yeah, same guy.

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MediaShift Idea Lab