I’m at the University of British Columbia this morning, teaching in a seminar called “Get Your Hands Dirty - Multimedia for Journalists.” 9:30 a.m., Sunday, even though I should be packing—I must actually care about this stuff.
Donna Logan, director at the new UBC Graduate School of Journalism, is speaking right now—telling this room of graduate students about why new media is important. Blogging is the focus of the day, clearly more than any other aspect of what’s going on online.
I think it’s great that they’re doing this special seminar on online media—maybe they ought to offer a full course in it. (wink)
More as the day progresses. They’re about to introduce me so I ought to stop typing up here on the dias.
“Watch your step as you exit the train, and if you’re late, just remember that life is a lot like being on this train: we may not be there yet, but we’re getting there.”
“According to Golf Digest, from 1996 to 2007, Woods made $769,440,709. Golf Digest predicts that, by 2010, Woods will become the world’s first athlete to pass one billion dollars in earnings.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)