Websites to Ponder While Contructing a New Media Comm Page

Media Comm @ other schools

NYU
(blogs, videos, quick easy access)
MIT
(rss feed)
Loyola
(Video presentation)
Columbia School of Journalism
(great slide show, big pictures, news, RSS feed, quick access to info)
George Washington University
(An example of what our site should NOT look like)


Webby Award Winners
(full list of winners here.)

http://www.ted.com/ (Winner for Best Navigation/ Structure)

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9 (Winner for Education)


Web 2.0 Summit

http://en.oreilly.com/web2008
(Uses many of the applications that were talked about in the Summit)

Some Web 2.0 applications

http://www.flickr.com/
(one of the best online photo management and sharing apps)

http://www.vimeo.com/
(an extremely sleek video sharing site)

http://www.youtube.com/

http://twitter.com/
(a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time)

Podcasts on iTunes

http://digg.com/
(social news)

Examples of other excellent Website Designs

http://cssmania.com/galleries/2008/11/

"Not Your Father's" Media and Communications Website

The internet is in an ever-evolving atmosphere. Less than a decade ago there was no such thing as YouTube, Twitter, or Digg. Today, these "Web 2.0" applications are spreading like wildfire on the internet. In "Not Your Father's Internet" the argument is made that youth are demanding more of these interactive apps when it comes to politics. They want candidates to engage with them through new media. However, a gap is present between what youth are looking for and what campaign organizations are providing. A similar chasm can be seen in the Muhlenberg College Media and Communications website.

There is no sense of interactivity in the department's web page. As new age internet users we want the ability to change, update, and produce content on the net. So, I propose the addition of more "communicative, creative, and social uses" of the net onto the department page. A specific example of this would be to include an RSS feed to a department blog. Students would be able to comment on postings and submit their own content. Bringing the user into the process of producing and manipulating the content of the site will increase traffic and hopefully bring about easier access to important information. Of course, there is always the problem of privacy as presented in Digital Natives. How much information about students should be put onto the internet? This is a question that will take serious deliberation. The first step, however, is to change the website in a way that it conforms to the desires of the new youth web culture.

The Code on the Cover of the Numerati

I have finally found the code on the cover of the Numerati! It took a few google searches but the numbers that are boxed off are a longitude and latitude of somewhere in New Jersey.

Google maps points the location to:


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Muhlenberg Media and Comm. Department Mission Statement

The link to the statement is here:

The Mission Statement

Barack Obama’s Top 5 technology promises

I found this article online and I thought it was pretty relevant to our class discussions on New Information technology and politics.

Included is a list of president-elect Barack Obama's top 5 technology promises. Net neutrality, broadband penetration, and privacy are among them.

Barack Obama’s Top 5 technology promises