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The conversation with Jay Rosen continues

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The conversation with Jay Rosen continues
: Jay Rosen, head of the journalism department at New York University, damned near stole the show at Bloggercon with his concise and cogent observations on the meaning of the Internet and media (see his line about readers and writers, below).

In our weblog world, there are some people (and you know who you are) who snark about journalism schools (as they snark about journalism). But reconsider Rosen. I’ve been impressed with him as a J-school head who Gets It. I try hard to be a big-media guy who Gets It. And maybe that’s why, in our short acquaintance, we’ve found so much common ground. We are both excited about this new world and eager to figure out what it could mean for the future of media. We also want to be a part of it. That’s why we blog.

This is part of that process of figuring it out: a series of conversations we’re having in our weblogs. Part II, our post Bloggercon klatsch:

Rosen: You and I have just returned from Blogger.con and we thought: why not compare notes? For me, relatively new to the we-do-weblogs world, it was like visiting a tribe whose din had been growing louder, and being asked to one of their ceremonies

4 responses to “The conversation with Jay Rosen continues”

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    I found this very interesting:
    At Jarvis- Section 2, Pgraph 3
    *For media… Maureen Ryan… very smart.*

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    Jonathan

    I think weblogging will find its true application in the way it connects local geographical communities together. A weblogger, in his isolation, is usually physically surrounded throughout the day by people who do not or know not of weblogging, nor do they care. How does someone with weblogging habits use them to enhance and improve the local community in which he lives? What does the weblogger, with all of these intimate extended electronic relationships through the transom, extend those relationships to those in his world who do not weblog?

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    CharlesWT

    Several decades ago, I read a newspaper every day and had at least one weekly news magazine subscription. Now it takes something like a doctor’s office visit for me to pick up either.
    A few years ago, I watched network and local news every day and several talking heads programs on Sunday. Now I watch network and local news and PBS’s The News Hour a few times a week and one or two talking heads programs on Sunday.
    As recent as a few months ago, I would open browser windows on The Drudge Report and Google News every day and check them every hour or so during the day. Now I check them a few times a week for breaking news.
    Almost all the time I use to spend on the above is now spent perusing the various weblogs I find interesting.

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    Tom Grey

    Another use of a weblog could be transparent gov’t: My suggestion — get Arnie’s new gov’t program auditor to keep a blog. The WSJ says it will be Donna Arduin, who has done a good job in Florida and other places. Imagine if she accepts daily blogging about pork barrel politics. Imagine cleaning up California — doing the job the pols said is impossible. It could, literally, change politics for ever, and almost certainly for better. (Whether Arnie is labeled