Blogs in Spanish

There is a very interesting survey about blogs in Spanish language made by a blog in Spain,Tinta China. Eventhough it includes Latin America in the the survey, it seems more representative of the Spanish blogosphere, which is more developed. Findings include habits in the blogosphere, sociodemographics, frecuency of posts, etc.

Terra Incognita

The presentation was awesome. It showed some incredible and well develop techniques of story telling. However, I still wonder how does a journalism company or a freelance journalist may fund (or recover his money) from that kind of projects.

Online Publishing/Journalism in Higher Education

I have realized recently that there is a major lack of sufficient education opportunities for online publishing and multimedia journalism. Just think about it: in our class so far this semester we have covered such a wide range of topics and learned so much that it could really be split into two classes (one on the journalism aspect itself and another on the actual publishing, such as in Flash). To get to the point: there need to be more classes that help students to get experience with online publishing, writing for the web, and journalism on the web. I think the lack of such classes in the University is a problem that needs to be fixed. I almost feel jipped by the University as a journalism major in the multimedia sequence.

Which classes would you suggest for addition to the course offerings in multimedia journalism?

I think there should be classes on HTML, PHP, Java, and other languages for publishing on the Web. There should be a class on writing for the Web, etc. Any other suggestions?

News on line

I don't think that people go first to blogs in order to get news. They probably monitor or eventually read blogs to contrast informations. Without being a compulsive blogger, I think that on line sources to get news are similar to print. I am suscribed to the on line versions of The New York Times, The Onion, and two Peruvian publications (El Comercio, Caretas).

Maiden Voyage

This is the first post of the new blog for J334/J395 at the University of Texas at Austin. Welcome!