Blogs

Below you will find a listing of links to various convergent media sites and topics. Please feel free to email t.johnson@ttu.edu with suggestions or to add your site to the list.

Tom's Blog
http://mediaconvergence.org/blog/
Convergence Research Matters blog.

Adrian Holovaty
http://www.holovaty.com
Adrian Holovaty, editor of editorial innovations at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, devotes her site to discussion of Web development, with an emphasis on online journalism.

Altercation
http://mediamatters.org/altercation/
Eric Alterman, a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College, the "Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute of The New School,  blogs for Media Matters for America, a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

BAG News Notes
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com
 "The BAG" is a progressive blog dedicated to the political picture, and the discussion and analysis of news images.

Buzz Machine
http://buzzmachine.com
Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism, blogs about media and news.

Dan Gilmor’s Blog
http://sf.backfence.com/news/newsList.cfm?myComm=PA&tid=51
Dan Gilmor, Director of the Center for Citizen’s Media and author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People  blogs about media and issues of interest to Bay Area communities through Backfence, a “do-it yourself” websites which allows readers in communities in California, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia to post news, photos, commentary and advertising about their local community

Dan Gilmor’s Citizen Media Blog
http://citmedia.org/blog/
Dan Gilmor, Director of the Center for Citizen’s Media and author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, writes his blog to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.

Doc Searls Weblog
http://doc.weblogs.com
Doc Searls, senior editor for Linux Journal and Research Fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society at UC Santa Barbara, is a long-time blogger about blogs, the Internet, journalism and politics

Infomaniac: Behind the news
http://newsresearch.blogspot.com/
Liz Donovan, veteran news research, writes bout the news, the Net, blogs and journalism, new media,  and news research.

Jay Rosen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen
Jay Rosen, professor at New York University, who was a leading advocate of public journalism and helped create newAssignment.net, an experimental open source pro-am  reporting project, writes about journalism and politics on Huffington Post. He and Arianna Huffington are collaborating on “offthebus.net,” in which bloggers will cover the top six candidates in each party in the 2008 presidential election

Joanne Jacobs
http://joannejacobs.net
Joanne Jacobs, private consultant in User-Led technologies and former professor at the Australasian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID), writes about new media technology, including ,policy, social implementation and adoption

New Media Musings,
http://www.socialmedia.biz/
J.D. Lasica, founder of Social Media Group and a leading authority on citizen’s media, uses his blog to chart the rise of open, democratic, and grassroots media.

PressThink
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ http://www.pressthink.org
Jay Rosen, professor at New York University, who was a leading advocate of public journalism and helped create newAssignment.net, an experimental open source pro-am  reporting project, is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism and its ordeals

Rebecca’s Pocket
http://www.rebeccablood.net/
Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, blogs about media literacy, sustainability, web culture, current events and domestic life

Romenesko
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
Jim Romenesko, veteran reporter and editor and blogger for Poynter, provides journalists with brief commentary about (and links to) articles about journalism or journalists.

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard
Http://www.wordyard.com
Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon magazine, blogs about technology, politics and culture

Smart Mobs
http://www.smartmobs.com
SmartMobs is a blog that deals with ideas found in Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, a book by Howard Rheingold that deals with the social, economic and political changes implicated by developing technology.

Teach Online journalism
http://mindymcadams.com/tojou
Mindy McAdams, online journalism professor at University of Florida, provides notes from the classroom and observations about online journalism practices.

Telstra’s BigBlog
http://qa.bigblog.com.au/blog.do
Stephen Quinn, associate professor at Deakin University in Australia and author of 11 books on convergence in the newroom, writes musings and amusings about new media.

Steve Yelvington
http://www.yelvington.com/
Steve Yelvington, internet strategist for Morris DigitalWorks, who has been working on Internet projects since 1993, blogs about the state of journalism, citizen journalism, newspapers and blogging.