Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain)

“The journalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, too self-absorbed), but the blogger in me can’t help it. Media is changing—how it is produced and how it is consumed. The worlds of blogging and journalism are colliding and I want to get some thoughts down on this transition before I forget what the old world was like or feel too comfortable in the new one.”

The New Yorker: The News Business: Out of Print
Out of Print
The death and life of the American newspaper.
by Eric Alterman

Wired Campus: Curbing Bad Student Behavior Online - Chronicle.com
There is a growing sense that bad student behavior online—pirating music files, posting drunken photos on their Facebook page, passing along malicious gossip about other students on the Web—has roots in earlier childhood, when they were not taught that, even online, there are boundaries….This week the psychologist, Tanya Byron, released her report, noting that in an increasingly risk-averse world, where children are not allowed to play outside without supervision, they are naturally drawn to the Internet as a place for exploration, to test their skills and their limits.

10 Millionth Article Written on Wikipedia
The ten millionth article has been written on Wikipedia - a Hungarian biography of of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard

Wired News - AP News

“The newsroom is increasingly being seen as the most experimental place in the business”

I don’t know what this has to do with laptops or educational technology, but…

How To: Inoculate Kids Against Advertising
Lisa made her kids impervious to advertising by asking pointed questions that forced them to think about the source and truthfulness of ads. She knew action was needed when when her kids, who werent old enough to read, stopped in front of the bleach while shopping to ask the advertisers dream question: “Mom, arent we going to buy some Clorox?” Hit the jump to see how she responded.

WordPress: The Social Network
Can WordPress become the basis of a social network? Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg hinted today on his blog that WordPress might go in a more social direction. He announced a new hire, Andy Peatling, the developer behind BuddyPress, a social network built on top of WordPress. BuddyPress will now become an official WordPress project.

Slashdot | Web Videos Show Off the Wonders of Chemistry

Timmy writes “Wired Science has picked ten of the best videos from YouTube and their own show on PBS to highlight the wonderful things chemistry can do. Only four of them involve fire or explosions. The rest range from music videos about the polymerase chain reaction to reactions that repeatedly change color. One shows how to pour sodium acetate stalagmites. Another shows Chris Hardwick giving instructions for building a glow stick while making absurd comments.”