The Undecided Voter

With the conventions right around the corner, the polling and race for getting the voting percentage is getting tight.  So early.  VP candidates have not even been chosen yet and McCain and Obama are duking it out over the undecided votes.  I guess the early  bird does get the worm.  
In an Wall Street Journal [...]

Obama Travels. New Meda takes it and Runs.

Now, my headline might be a little bit misleading.  News organizations are running with this story as well.  Anytime a political figure heads to a war zone the public is interested.  However, Sen McCain the opposing candidate and other congressional leaders have spent a lot of time in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Why now?  Is [...]

Lessons From Blogging

There is a website entitled cyberjournalists.net.  Having read an article from the New York Times on up and coming blogs, I found this suggestion particularly interesting.  A website that addresses the issues / feud between the world of blogging and the world of journalism.  The site discuses inner turmoil of newsrooms and how each organization [...]

Microtargeting

For this weeks class we read a series of politically based articles on the use of micro-targeting in political campaigns.  How fascinating.  Although, is it to elementary to think of voters as just consumers?  For that matter, why are we thinking of consumers in such a simplistic manner. 
For instance, as I was reading the New York Times Article on [...]

What’s the point of the widget?

Which one’s will stick around? After receiving the requirements for our blog entries, I started to begin to add some bells and whistles to my blog. Tags here. Links there. Blogstorm. Clouds. Etc.
It seems that a lot of these new bells and whistles won’t last. The useful ones will obviously stay. [...]

Was or Is James Kotecki a Journalist?

Not in the traditional sense, but then again if you compare Chris Matthews to Walter Cronkite, I am sure you see some changes in the industry there as well. 
This is not a slam against either Chris or James, but rather a mere observation that over the years with changing technologies there has been a blurring of entertainment and [...]