Initial goals for topics include: diversity of subject matter; items of strong interest to participants; reasonable number and scope; satisfying range of depth and breadth. What ideas do you have?
Ideas suggested thus far:
just in it for the friendliness
generating blogs to turn into book content
blogs and economic development
how blogs are impacting media and culture
design and tech stuff
content management systems and why they matter: is static Web design a thing of the past?
worst of the Internet: people going off on each other
make a go of it as one-person online newspaper
how do (or can) blogs supplant newspapers in original reporting?
who will do reporting if/when daily papers die?
how can local blogs find ways to allow readers to provide content?
technorati, and how to use it
new media and cross-discipline uses
experiences in mainstream journalism vs. as a blogger
technology for the underrepresented masses
socio-economic stratification and Internet trends
blogging ethics
can (or should) blogging be journalism?
discerning truth from rumor: how information spreads thru the blogosphere
cultural divides in the blogosphere
Others?
January 25th, 2006