Friday, April 2, 2004

Teaching Journalism With Blogs. Now that I'm "done" teaching, I want to go back to school and be in Christopher Allbritton's class at NYU. Here are the latest assignments he's given his students: Assignment: There are a lot of different companies out there producing some kind of blogging software. SixApart, Google/Blogger, LIveJournal, Weblogs Inc., and Userland, just to name a few. There are others out there. Contact some of these companies and show me what their vision is for the future of the medium. Where is it going and why? What are some of the uses of the blog that they see but which are not being done now for lack of applications? This is a business story, so look at it from that angle. Find out their business plans, their revenue model, how they plan to stay in business and try to tell me stuff I don't already know. If they're based in New York, ask to visit their offices and talk to regular employees. Make this a rich story to tell. ...and some of these students are very serious indeed - None of them told me they were working on an assignment - I found that out from Will's weblog. I started getting calls this afternoon from NYU students.  I hope I was helpful... Now for the kicker -- Just try to describe another communication medium where a professor at a university (one of thousands in the US) gives his students an assignment, they start working on it and the people they are interviewing find out about that assignment, that professor, at that University by reading another professor's weblog. 10:08:44 PM    comment []

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