Wednesday, February 14, 2007

They want to drink without getting fat!

As best I can remember the thing that we listened to did not feature anything on Thomas Hayden Church. But it have stuff on civil and civilian journalism.

Civil Journalism is when the reporters are involved in the story, not just showing up later and asking questions. Kinda like a journalist in a war or Lois Lane taking down Lex Luthor (Bet you didn't think I could fit comics into this one, eh, Jill?).

Civilian Journalism is a regular person, who witnesses the events and then writes about them on their blog. I bet there was some interesting civilian journalism coming out of New Orleans after God sent the hurricane to clean it of it's wickedness.

Another segment on the thing was an interview with Wikipedia co-founder, Mr. Jimmy Wales. The interview revealed that Wikipedia is mainly self regulating and that even on controversial figures like George Bush the debate about what to put on his page is fairly low-key and controlled. An interesting feature of Wikipedia is that they can just reset a page with one click of a button, making it hard for people to really mess with the site. Wiki's are the new main source for info, while not always accurate, it has enough to at least point you in the right direction.

A thought occurs to me, Does Morgan Freeman have a blog? And would it be as interesting to hear what he has to say if you can't hear his voice?"Ever since I was a young child, people have been fascinated by the sound of my voice."

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