Baseball fans:
baseballprimer a site for the "thinking fan."
Better yet, just subscribe to the newsfeed.

Some interesting reading on blogs and the future of journalism. Yo Seth, read some of this and blog about what you think of it or I'll fail you. Yes that means you--I only have one Seth this semester. ;)
"Excerpts from a discussion on the changing nature of journalism led by Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis, clearly among the top minds on the subject. Via Tim Porter's First Draft." [Hypergene MediaBlog]
"Will Weblogs Make Copy Editors Obsolete?; RSS: A Big Success In Danger of Failure; News Aggregators Getting New Features; Interview with James Atkinson, Founder of phpBB; Blogging is not a zero-sum game; and The Semantic Social Network." [Hypergene MediaBlog]

From what I can tell Feedster allows you to set up a free web-based newsbrowser. Wish I had known about this earlier. Should be good for those of you who don't have a computer that will handle Central, Newzcrawler, etc.
In fact, just go to the Feedster homepage and check out everything it does. It's like Technorati on roids! I'm adding it to my "stuff" column.

Alright cowboys and cowgirls, several of you have been blogging on current political news--I love it. And several conservative students have spoken up; keep it coming--it's no good if we only hear one side, eh? So you've got the blog thing down. Cool. Now it's time to syndicate your political commentary beyond the class to the world at large. When you're ready for a much larger readership, go here. And you guys know my opinion about this: Radical democracy of the press baby! I would just as soon read what you guys have to say about the world as I would what the corporate talking heads have to say about it.

Here's a link to a Forbes piece on the future of news feeds. You guys are ahead of the curve (thanks to me, heh, heh).
'Arik Hesseldahl (Forbes.com): "... 2004, it seems, is the year the RSS feed--the letters stand for real simple syndication or rich site summary--is going mainstream."'
[Ranchero]

This is just too good.

THIS IS A MUST READ. Check out the Georgetown Lampoon and read this stuff. It was on an away message of a guy I went to high school with. So Bill Shufelt, thanks for putting that out there, because this shit is classic. Especially this line..."Get some rich parents, an internship, and a pink polo with the collar up, and then maybe I'll let you hang out with me." Dr. Gilbert even liked it. (But of course he would.)
I think its pretty awesome that a university like Georgetown, which is under jesuit rule, has a student publication that allows this kind of content. I mean let's be serious, this blow the BULLSHEET right out of the water.
Its definitely a good laugh, enjoy.
WQB

I too have a fondness both for the Beats and for the Dead, without whom my own college days would not have been as dear.

One of my favorite authors is Ken Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest." He died a couple years ago, but the legend of him and the Merry Pranksters lives on. This is my favorite story about him, and it combines him and the best band on earth, the Grateful Dead.... enjoy.

[The Universe of Wigglebeewoo]

COMM 101 Assignment due Friday Feb. 27:
Kyle Banahan: hypozeugma hypozeuxis hysterologia Jessica Bing: hysteron proteron, icon, indignatio Sam Bortz: inopinaturm insinuatio interrogatio Ethan Branum: inter se pugnantia, intimation irony Matt Cammarata: isocolon litotes macrologia Mardea Caulcrick: martyria maxim medela Alex Fant: meiosis membrum mempsis Pia Ghose: merismus mesarchia mesodiplosis Andrea Gomez: mesozeugma metabasis metalepsis Steve Grosse: metallage metaphor metaplasm Greg Haar: metastasis metathesis metonymy Liz Jackson: mimesis mycterismus noema Brie Jaquette: oeonismus ominatio onedismus Ram Krishnamoorthy: onomatopoeia optatio orcos Allison Lesnett: oxymoron paenismus palilogia Sian Martin: parabola paradiastole paradiegesis Matt Montgomery: paradigma paradox paraenesis Fatima Ogunlana: paragoge paralipsis parallelism Ivan Orsic: paramythia parathesis parecbasis Christine Pappas: paregmenon parelcon parembole Scott Persing: parenthesis pareuresis paroemia Matt Petersen: paroemion paromoiosis paromologia Jordan Proefrock: paronomasia parrhesia pathopoeia Nate Schmidt: perclusio periergia period Kai Schwertner: periphrasis perissologia peristasis Dean Scontras: permutatio personification philophronesis Seth Seymour: pleonasm ploce polyptoton Ben Stapleton: polysyndeton pragmatographia procatalepsis Scott Towler: proclees prodiorthosis proecthesis Kristin Wilkinson: prolepsis prosapodosis proslepsis Adam Wolford: prosonomasia prosopographia prosopopoeia

You only have to find two instances of each of these figures in the SoU.

If any of ya'll need to send a larger file to me (something too big for email, like audio files) you can drop it onto my iDisk. If you want to share a larger file with the class you can drop it on here and then blog about it to let everyone know. Here's how. If you have Mac OS X or Windows XP go here and download the free iDisk Utility. My .Mac membername is "dave7" and the password is "gilbie." Here are instructions if you don't have a Mac or XP.

If you're using Windows XP, use iDisk Utility for Windows XP to open someone's Public folder. To download iDisk Utility for Windows XP, go to www.mac.com, and click .Mac Downloads.
If you're using Windows 2000, open My Computer, choose Map Network Drive from the Tools menu, then click "Web folder or FTP site." Enter the following as the location to add: http://idisk.mac.com/membername-Public? (where "membername" is the other person's .Mac member name).
If you're using Windows 98, open My Computer, double-click the Web Folders icon, then double-click Add Web Folder. Enter the following as the location to add: http://idisk.mac.com/membername-Public? (where "membername" is the other person's .Mac member name).

COMM 228 Assignment for Friday:
Read pages 17-23 of Radio and post a summary on your blog (good for 1 post requirement).

I agree with dahdah, this is getting out of hand:
"I noticed a disturbing epidemic of FAKE uggs and FOREVER 21 mini-skirts."

COMM 101:
Many of you are doing great work on your SJT maps. I just wanted to show you guys this one because it's so thorough, and the links are so good. Overall I'm happy with how all the groups are progressing with this assignment.
Racial Profiling

1__2__3__4__5__6__7__8__9__10__11__12__13__14__15__16__17__18__19__20__21__22

1. Against Racial Profiling
2. Bill H.RES.515expressing that Congress and the States should act to end racial profiling
3. Over 20 states have enacted laws against racial profiling: States against Racial Profiling
4. Join the work of the NAACP - challenge housing discrimination and racial profiling or another group that is against racial profiling:ACLU
5. Bill S.16: referred to the Senate telling law enforcement agencies to take steps to prevent the practice of racial profiling
6. Racial profiling violates the 14th Amendment
7. Builds Distrust Between Minority Communities and Police Departments
8. Racial Profiling by Law enforcement should be banned and there should be some sort of consequence if they use racial profiling-
9. Federal legislation against racial profiling
end racial profiling act
racial profiling and Illinois policy
proposed traffic stop Acts
10. Prevent discrimination in all aspects of the criminal justice system
11. Federal agents barred by President Bush from using racial profiling in routine investigation but not investigations involving terrorism and national security
12. "Defines" Characteristics of Criminals
13. Prevent Terrorism (racial profiling may have prevented 9/11)
14. Stop states from identifying residents by race ethnicity, color or national origin (limits efforts to track racial profiling)
15. Recognizing that racial profiling has increased since 9/11 (check out this poll)
16. Imparial - Feel Racial Profiling is non-existent; that it is a myth
17. It is necessary (Business Purposes)
18. Racial Profiling is okay in cases of housing and renting apartments
19. Racial Profiling is necessary in medicine
20. Racial Profiling is okay when choosing who to search more vigorously
21. Racial profiling is necessary in self-defense situations (protection of law officers: an example of a beating by police)
22. For Racial Profiling (feel it is necessary)
[Big Tymers]