When you take something online, you rely on technology, but the point should never be the technology itself. In other words, although online journalism relies on technology, it is not ABOUT technology. Technology is never more than a means to an end. » Read the rest of the entry..

Many of you (and understandably in my view) have asked if your portfolios are stuck being accessed at via the rather hideous hostnames that I have set up for you automatically (something like http://abxx123.wordpress.city-1.vsccreative.com). You’ll be pleased to hear that the answer is no. » Read the rest of the entry..

An interesting point has come up in a lot of the lab sessions, as well as in the feedback survey that we conducted last week.

There are a lot of different ways you could run something that is referred to in print as an “online journalism lab”.

We could teach you all a formulaic set of steps to produce the same identical output for each student.

There have even been two or three isolated requests for this. To those two or three people I can only say “sorry”.

Instead, I’d like to explain clearly what we are doing in the labs, why we are doing it that way, what you should expect from us, and what we are expecting from you, the students. » Read the rest of the entry..