Planet JOMC490.4

December 15, 2006

Paul Jones

CEO of Reuter’s on Citizen Journalism

Tom Glocer is CEO of Reuters and he is also a blogger. Where better for him to publish an article called “Trust in the Age of Citizen Journalism” than on his blog?

The article is the text of a speech Glocer gave at “Globes Media Conference in Tel Aviv on Monday 11 December 2006.” About the talk he says: “It’s about trust in media today, taking into account the growing
popularity of blogging and all other types of citizen journalism.”

Reminds me that when I met Lobsang Wangyal, the Reuters reporter amongst exiled Tibetans, he was most interesting in talking about his newly formed Association of Tibetan Journalists. The Association’s biggest task, he told me, is preparing citizens to be journalists by educating them about strong and respected news practices — values, ethics and skills.

Glocer’s talk via Dan Gillmor and the Center for Citizen Media. Dan has his reservations about parts of the talk.

by Paul at December 15, 2006 04:05 AM

Birdsong silenced in Raleigh

Gary Birdsong - Nov 2005
“And no birds sang” as Keats ended his poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” But in this case, the silence befell our favorite pitpreacher, Gary Birdsong as he tried to take his redemption show on the road to the general public.

Gary has been preaching hell fire and damnation at UNC and other campuses or well over a decade that I can recall. But once he started up on Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street in front of the Wake County Courthouse, he upset the gentile dinners at Yancey’s Juke Joint who called the police.

Ryan Teague Beckwith has the story on his News and Observer blog.


The people at UNC-Asheville aren’t nice to Gary either.[YouTube]

We ibiblians have some nice pictures of a slightly younger and less hairy Gary in classic poses.

by Paul at December 15, 2006 12:18 AM

December 14, 2006

Steve Kulp

the psychology of homepages

They say you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their shoes. I have another theory. I think you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their web browser’s homepage. Unlike the choice of footwear or apparel, there’s nothing conspicuous about it. It’s very personal, offering true insight into a person’s interests, personality and priorities.

To give credit where credit is due, one of my professors got me thinking about this. I was sitting in the his office, and he opened Safari to show me a website. It opened to Apple.com - the default Safari homepage. He had never bothered to change it. Now, I don’t see this as a character flaw. I just suspect he’s way too busy and never thought to change it.

I also wish there was a plug-in or application that would give me you random homepage every time you opened Safari or hit the home button. You could set it to pull from a certain bookmark folder or to give you something completely random from the web. Maybe this exists, but I can’t seem to find it.

So I ask…What’s your homepage? What do you think it says about you?

I’ll go first. It’s CNN.com, but I’m thinking of changing it to something more controversial.

by stevek at December 14, 2006 10:00 PM

December 13, 2006

Paul Jones

new ibiblio record over 24 million files in one day

Munch - Ashes
Thanks to Google’s Edvard Munch celebration yesterday and to the historic WebMuseum hosted on ibiblio, we handled over 24 million requests yesterday — about 10 million of those for images of Munch’s paintings.

Our Cogent link to Atlanta managed the extra requests easily without going over our limit (in the 500 mbs range). And thanks to Squid caching, our servers easily handled the load.

Overall, a great test of our new datacenter and networking arrangement with NCREN and a big success there for all of us.

Thanks to Nicholas Pioch of Netscape-AOL France for maintaining the Web Museum for almost 15 years and to Mark Harden for his contributions to the Munch area.

by Paul at December 13, 2006 09:24 PM

Song of Joy (coming soon)

I’ll be off the net all day today (Wednesday), but I do have unrelated news. I have a poem upcoming in the News and Observer’s Sunday Journal. Not sure which Sunday as I write this. I can’t put the poem here since it needs to appear in the Sunday Journal first, but I can give you the 99 words of the introduction to the poem:

I heard a voice in the night saying “Joy is here” then after a pause “It might be insincere.” I noticed that the lines created a perfect triplet of three lines of three syllables with rhyme. Of course they should occur three times in a poem. But the poem’s length? The most magical number would be ninety nine; the sum of the sums of divisors of the first eleven integers. Incidental to this mathematical epiphany, I suddenly recalled William Wordsworth’s wonderful poem “The Tables Turned.” The birds sang as the sun rose. I wrote this poem. Hope you enjoy.

by Paul at December 13, 2006 02:49 AM

Dean Smith

One last article

Paul Gillin has this interesting gaze into his crystal ball about how the online environment and journalism will interact in coming years. It's worth a look: The coming collapse and rebirth of newspaper journalism.

by counterframe at December 13, 2006 02:41 AM

December 12, 2006

Paul Jones

Songphan Choemprayong

Learning from America to Thailand: Digital Divides

During my master program at Pitt, one of my favourite classes, Information Policy taught by an excellent professor and policy pioneer, Toni Carbo, inspired me to learn about how Americans anticipate and deal with their domestic digital divide issues. I wrote a paper and just got published by Libri this month (Vol. 56 No. [...]

by iTeau at December 12, 2006 03:46 AM

Paul Jones

Dean Smith

JOMC490

Dear JOMC490 colleagues,

I'm sorry our time together this semester has come to an end. I've truly enjoyed our group's ideas, insight and generosity. With that spirit of exchange in mind, here's a link to my final project: Reciprocal Exchange: A Qualitative Study of the Purpose, People and Policies That Make One Online Community Work (Word doc).

Keep going!

by counterframe at December 12, 2006 01:07 AM

December 11, 2006

Paul Jones

60s Student Protests in Chapel Hill

ae alerts us to an exhibit and a series of events called “I Raised my Hand to Volunteer: Students Protest in 1960s Chapel Hill” beginning on January 23 with all but the ultimate event in Wilson Library — that last event will be at the Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, Seminar Room.

Scheduled events include:

  • Jan. 23, 2007- Prof. Peter Filene, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor in the History Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, will give a talk entitled “Personally Authentic: Carolina Student Protestors in the Sixties.” Filene, who began teaching at UNC in 1967 and has won six teaching awards in his career, will draw on his own experiences, as well as his research and teaching about the political movements of the era and student activism in general. Wilson Library, reception and exhibit viewing at 5:15 p.m., program at 6 p.m.
  • Jan. 30, 2007 - “Pressing the Hold-outs: The Desegregation Sit-ins of 1963-1964,” moderated by Sally Greene, Chapel Hill Town Councilwoman and adjunct professor of law at UNC. Wilson Library, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
  • Feb. 6, 2007 - “Speaking Out-of-Bounds: Communism, Race, Intellectual Freedom, and the Speaker Ban Controversy of the Mid-Sixties,” moderated by Ferrel Guillory, Director, Program on Public Life. The panel will include William Friday, who was president of the UNC system at the time of the controversy, and Lewis Lipsitz, an outspoken opponent of the ban. Wilson Library, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
  • Feb. 13, 2007 - “Stomping Down: The Foodworkers Strike of 1969 and the Black Student Movement,” moderated by Dr. Archie Ervin, Associate Provost for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at UNC. Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, Seminar Room, 5:30 - 7 p.m.

by Paul at December 11, 2006 11:44 PM

December 10, 2006

Paul Jones

Will It Blend?

Ken is hoping that he’s been a good boy so that Santa will bring him the blender featured on Don’t Try This @ Home at the WillItBlend site.

I can think of many more things to blend now that I’ve been watching these amazing videos.

by Paul at December 10, 2006 11:25 PM

Songphan Choemprayong

คุณลักษณะของคนในชุมชนออนไลน์

Attention Company ทำวิจัยเกี่ยวกับ คุณลักษณะของคนในชุมชนออนไลน์ โดยผลการวิจัย พบว่า คนที่เข้าไปมีส่วนร่วมในชุมชนออนไลน์ หรือที่เค้าใช้คำเปรียบเทียบว่า “Out There” นั้น มักมีคุณลักษณะดังต่อไปนี้ Value fame as an “asset” Willing to share certain types of sensitive information on the web Believe it is appropriate to criticize their organizations on the web Believe that “organizations need to be more transparent to succeed” Believe “there’s no harm in [...]

by iTeau at December 10, 2006 04:28 PM

Notes from SSS

หมดไปหนึ่งวันครึ่งแบบเต็มเหยียดกับ Social Software Symposium ได้ฟัง ได้เรียนรู้แล้วก็แลกเปลี่ยนประเด็นที่น่าสนใจเกี่ยวกับ social tagging กับ social networks ถ้าใครสนใจก็ลองเข้าไปดู Session Note ได้ครับ (เข้าใจว่า ตอนนี้ก็ยังมีการ update อยู่) หรือใครสนใจแบบ live bloggin ก็ลองเข้าไปดูใน blog ของ David Wienberger [Folksonomy as symbol, K-Fed, Thomas Vander Wal, Social Tagging Panel] กับ Alice Marwick ได้เลยครับ แต่ยังไงคงจะมี version ที่เป็น document เต็มรูปออกมา เพื่อเอาไปใช้อ้างอิงในอนาคต ปล. เสียงการบรรยายของ David Wienberger จาก Henderson Lecture ก็สามารถโหลดมาฟังได้แล้วครับ

by iTeau at December 10, 2006 03:57 PM

Paul Jones

Ideas of Karsarda and Galinsky (and others)

A is for Aerotropolis — or at least that newish word is the first entry in this year’s Ideas edition of the New York Times Magazine. UNC’s

by Paul at December 10, 2006 02:53 PM

Songphan Choemprayong

Characterizing a Thai Online Community: Pantip.com Cafe

I did a 9-page paper for JOMC490.004 Blogging, We the Media and Virtual Communities class. The paper is called Characterizing a Thai Online Community: Pantip.com Cafe. It is an introduction and a summary of some communal aspects of Pantip.com Cafe. Feel free to comment…

by iTeau at December 10, 2006 06:00 AM

December 09, 2006

Paul Jones

December 08, 2006

Steve Kulp

the dictionary of brand

While many of you may have read Marty Neumeier’s The Brand Gap, or his new

by stevek at December 08, 2006 02:45 PM

Paul Jones

Thomas Vander Wal at SSS

The guy who coined the term “folksonomy” Thomas Vander Wal is speaking now. His blogs are Personal Infocloud and Off the Top (at vanderwal.net).

Are tags always nouns or adjectives?

by Paul at December 08, 2006 02:44 PM

Weinberger and SSS

Yesterday at the great talk by David Weinberger yesterday; it’ll be online as at the ibiblio speakers page soon. Now at the

by Paul at December 08, 2006 01:44 PM