You could have something on Second Life/virtual worlds, etc. - seeing as Reuters have a desk there and everything. You also don't have 'Web 2.0' Hope that is some help Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins@hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:46:24 -0500 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: [Air-L] Oscar Peterson, the Wikiblip To: Danyel Fisher <danyelf@ics.uci.edu>, aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.40.0712282228140.924903-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Oscar Peterson was a friendly acquaintance of mine (and even more of Bev Wellman's), and we are mourning his death and celebrating his life. In addition to playing every Oscar disk we have, s seems to becoming my custom, one aspect of this is editing Oscar's Wikipedia site. Which has seen a feeding frenzy in the past few days. I just did a count of the number of edits on the site (you can do this too by going to "Oscar Peterson" and clicking on History. All dates/times Greenwich Mean Time (which is official Wikipedia time coding) December 19 -- 2 edits before death (and no public announcement of illness). routine edit. There had been about 4 routine edits per month throughout 2007. December 23 -- 1 edit. Died that day, but not public announced. Edit has no hint of death. December 24 -- 42 edits. Death announced in the morning news. I heard it at 1200 EST. First edit of the day, by someone else was at 1722 GMT (1222 EST) containing the news of Oscar's death, altho inaccurately saying it was Dec 24. December 25 -- 40 edits. Further refinements. Quotes, Canadian content added. December 26 -- 33 edits December 27 -- 17 edits December 28 -- 10 edits So Oscar's page is settling down. RIP. I've copied Danyel Fisher on this, because when he was a student working with me at Berkeley, he had a neat little research note on "the rise and fall of Melessa" (a badly spelled early virus, when such were big news) which similarly tracked the very quick peaking and tailing off of an event. Another variation on Andy Warhol's "5 minutes of fame". While Oscar had his justifiable jazz fame since the early 1950s, his WikiFame basically lasted 3+ days in December 2007. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:25:42 +0100 From: "Niels Hendriks" <niels.hendriks@mda.khlim.be> Subject: [Air-L] Glossary: new media + journalism To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID: <20071229122538.265D43FE0AC@hoboi2bl9.telenet-ops.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Hi there I am working on a course for journalism students. I was asked to give them insight on how new media can help the way they gather, create, select & publish news. I wanted to create a glossary with relevant terms on new media & journalism. I don?t know whether I am still missing things? Maybe you could give me a hand? Citizen media editor Citizen journalism Weblog Twitter Rss Mash-up Podcast Vlogging Youtube Social bookmarking Social media Social networking Online community Folksonomy Tagging User generated content Wiki Gatekeeper vs Gatewatcher Digg CAR Thanks in advance, Niels Hendriks __________________________________________ HYPERLINK "mailto:niels.hendriks@mda.khlim.be"niels.hendriks@mda.khlim.be docent & projectmedewerker Communication & multimediadesign HYPERLINK "http://c-md.khlim.be"http://c-md.khlim.be (mob) 0032 476 24 29 45 (skype) nielshendriks Favourites: HYPERLINK "http://del.icio.us/nielshendriks"http://del.icio.us/nielshendriks LinkedIn: HYPERLINK "http://www.linkedin.com/in/nielshendriks"http://www.linkedin.com/in/nielshe ndriks __________________________________________ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.8/1196 - Release Date: 25/12/2007 12:18 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 41, Issue 31 *************************************