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Hint for online content analysis

A colleague at U Florida, Mindy McAdams, has passed along a recommendation for software that will download Web pages for later analysis. It's called Iterasi, and a beta version is currently being offered for free at http://www.iterasi.net. Might be worth checking out.

CSM goes online

The Christian Science Monitor announced that they will focus on their Web edition, and stop daily publication of the print version. Efforts will focus on a constantly updated news website, and daily distribution of an electronic version. Print will be reduced to a weekly overview.

The sorry state of American political news.

In the wake of the recent Pew Research Report on press coverage of the American Presidential campaign (http://www.journalism.org/node/13307) finding coverage of McCain overwhelmingly negative, and Obama positive overall (although more balanced), a related survey (also from Pew) reporting that 70% of Americans believe that the media

Call me Joseph! *^^*

Here is my brief lifee history. Enjoy!

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Getting reading for storytelling online (IS 576), Spring 2009

I've decided to chronicle the development of a very traditional course, storytelling, that SIS has decided to offer online for the first time in the Spring 2009 semester. Along the way I'll be experimenting with new technologies we might use in the course, as well as transitioning the syllabus from f2f to cyberspace (so to speak)!