DigiDaveJournalism is a Process, Not a Product

Welcome to the home page of How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby, by Elizabeth Wiethoff.

Beth Kanter raises $2,500 in 90-minutes.

I will give you some actual nuts and bolts, but let me first say this: all good online fundraisers have two basic directions they work in – in and out. âÂ?Â?InâÂ?Â? is a webpage, where people visit you. âÂ?Â?OutâÂ?Â? is as in reaching out, through emails, smsing, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook etc etc etc.

The meta-ness of this is hilarious. A NY Times reporter writes an article about how citizen journalists didn’t cover the death of somebody in her neigoborhood. Yes – the way she covered it was by wondering why nobody else did.

I actually just met this guy not too long ago at FreelancersCamp in Santa Cruz. Excellent advice – much of which I need to heed.

Interesting reading if you ever need to build an e-commerce site.

I like this idea of a “change blogger” – people who use their blog to make change. In this case Alex is doing reporting – he hopes to report on what other people are doing. To me – that’s change reporting. I hope spot.us can support change reporters in the future.

More thoughts on the Huff Post going local.

I used to write for the Daily Cal. What a bummer.

Should be called Ruby through the coarse of your day

Free book.

Podcasts and screencasts for Ruby on Rails – start here.

More screencasts – probably more advanced than where I’m at.

Some screencasts of Ruby – more advanced than where I’m at.

A few free online tutorials with screencasts.

This book is hilarious to read – hopefully I can learn something from it

Practice Ruby from my browser – all I need is internet access

Cheat sheet for some rails stuff.

This is the way into my MYSQL – combined with CocoaMySQL, and bamn. I’m up and running.

Seth Godin is dead wrong on this. Ads are useless if they are used as tip jars. That’s not what advertisers want to be. Why not just, gasp, tip the writer directly???? That’s what Spot.us is betting on at least.

So I can learn what everything means in Ruby

Practice in my browser at any time.

Learning Ruby on Rails

Sorry foks – saving things on delicious is the best way for me to keep track of this.

I’m learning Ruby on Rails at Community College in San Francisco. W00t!!!!

I’ll share a bit of what I learn here – please welcome the new additional interest in my life.

On the economics of content….

Lenn Witt asked a hard nosed question: “If the America public does not want to pay for journalism âÂ?Â? in other words, doesnâÂ?Â?t find value in what we as journalists do âÂ?Â? should we simply stop doing it?”

I don’t think he’s that far off from asking THE central question of journalism right now. At a gathering of Knight winners in Chicago the president of the Knight foundation essentially asked this same thing – he said that Knight will be committed to figuring out how journalism is done in a digital future – until we either figure that out or the public overwhelmingly decides that journalism isn’t needed to keep democracy strong and healthy.

What I believe: Journalism is still valued by the public – but it often won’t be called “journalism” – it will be recognized as something else. Journalism will continue – but it won’t be done by “journalists.” That doesn’t mean profesionalism dies – but the diaspora of laid of journalists will find a new home and not even recognize themselves.

Thoughts from Tish Grier on B-weeks new social media strategy (launching in September).

Lenn Witt asks a hard nosed question: “If the America public does not want to pay for journalism âÂ?Â? in other words, doesnâÂ?Â?t find value in what we as journalists do âÂ?Â? should we simply stop doing it?”

I don’t think he’s that far off from asking THE central question of journalism right now. At a gathering of Knight winners in Chicago the president of the Knight foundation essentially asked this same thing – he said that Knight will be committed to figuring out how journalism is done in a digital future – until we either figure that out or the public overwhelmingly decides that journalism isn’t needed to keep democracy strong and healthy.

What I believe: Journalism is still valued by the public – but it often won’t be called “journalism” – it will be recognized as something else. Journalism will continue – but it won’t be done by “journalists.” That doesn’t mean profesionalism dies – but the diaspora of laid of journalists will find a new home and not even recognize themselves.