Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Your So Shallow:
This is an excerpt from an interview with a great designer talking about what kind of an education designers should have and he then relates that to journalism.
Q-How should universities change?

A-The first thing to do is ask: "What is the purpose of all the technology we are developing?" And the answer is, obviously: "To help people." But the understanding of "people" is in a different school—the social sciences—than the school where the understanding of technologies are taught. Right now, people in one area don't understand what someone else in their own department does, let alone what is being done in other departments.

If you want to be broad, you have to be shallow. In fact, you are shallow, because that's what journalists are: very broad, and therefore of necessity, relatively shallow in any area.

Thank you.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Here is a very good idea. Where anybody can evaluate and publish the evaluation of reporting. Check out Journalism Wall of Shame at >http://jpquake.wikispaces.com/Journalist+Wall+of+Shame
Scroll down to the evaluations and the review chart. Nicely done.