REBECCA E SPITZER

combining design, journalism, and technology. when i feel like it, anyways.

Tag archive for ‘social networking’

Today’s Catch-22

Posted by Rebecca on Nov 3, 2009 • (0)

I’d like to illustrate what I think it lacking in the news media with a Wellesley conundrum.
I just sat in on a round-table about Social Networking at our annual Tanner Conference, and I left it still thinking about a number of issues, including questions about where people source their news from and whether they [...]

Thoughts on a Greater Conversation

Posted by Rebecca on Oct 3, 2009 • (2)

A lot of new developments these days seem to be focused on the creation of news aggregators: feed readers, compilers, organizers, etc. (Like the Times’ new CustomFeeds application.) It seems to me, though, that the next big breakthrough in internet journalism isn’t going to be an aggregator. (I agree that the ability to intelligently sort [...]

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