Archive for 'Social Networking'
Lisa Williams – H2OTown, Placeblogger
Posted on 27. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: In February of 2005 Lisa Willaims started H2OTown (www.h2otown.info). She had recently left her job and wanted to get to know Watertown Massachusetts better, but decided to do her learning process in public. H2OTown also allowed others in the area to blog, creating a townhall atmosphere. It is what Williams calls a […]
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Jonathan Weber — NewWest.Net
Posted on 26. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Jonathan Weber came to the University of Montana as a visiting professor after the bankruptcy of the Industry Standard where he was editor in chief. While there he became interested in the ongoing story of the Rocky Mountain region’s booming development. Local papers were covering specific stories and towns, but Weber thought […]
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Jay Rosen — NewAssignment.Net
Posted on 14. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction to NewAssignment.Net: In the Fall of 2005 Jay Rosen, author of PressThink and NYU journalism professor, began playing with the idea for an organization dedicated to experimenting in online journalism. The concept stemmed from his experiences blogging since 2003 and general curiosity about the open source software movement — how groups of people online […]
