Friday, October 05 2001

Mark Deuze : Online Journalism: Modelling the First Generation of News Media on the World Wide Web

"The Internet and specifically its graphic interface the World Wide Web is reaching a level of saturation and widespread adoption throughout the world. Specifically for journalism practiced online - in the discipline of computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and a specific kind of journalism: online journalism - we can now identify and theorize about the impacts the global system of networked computers has had on journalism. This paper signals four particular journalisms online as these have emerged in the 'first generation' of newsmedia on the World Wide Web (1993-2001), discusses the key characteristics - cf. hypertextuality, interactivity, multimediality - which determine the 'added value' of these journalisms, and provides three specific strategies journalists may use to further enhance the potential of journalism online: annotative reporting, open source journalism and hyperadaptive news sites." And of course we are all waiting with bated breath for the flurry of "open source journalism" that will surround the bibliography and links section in this paper... see also : The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine

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Simon Kittles : Text::Outline.pm

"...converts one outline format into another. It can currently read in OPML files, Tabbed text files, and Think data files (Think is a GNOME outliner). It can currently output to OPML, Tabbed text, Think files, and Emacs outline files."

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Like many people, I am eager to see what Moveabletype is like,

in the flesh. For me, the acid-test will be how complicated it is to hack the system to add multiple categories to a post. That and what, exactly, "rebuilding files" means...

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is debouch

| source : web1913 | Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Debouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Debouching}.] [F. d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. {Disembogue}.] To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. Battalions debouching on the plain. --Prescott. | source : web1913 | Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. | source : wn | debouch v 1: march out (as from a defile) into open ground; "The regiments debouched from the valley" [syn: {march out}] 2: pass out or emerge; esp. of rivers: "The tributary debouched into the big river"

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