Web hosting and domain names was the focus of McAdams’ post. She starts off with an anecdote in which someone calls her up and didn’t know the difference between Web hosting and domain names. Apparently this had happened more than once. She put a link on her blog to help others understand the difference. My […]
Entries from February 2011 ↓
Mindy McAdams’ Teaching Online Journalism: Web literacy: Should be required
February 2nd, 2011 — Blog Item
Briggs Ch. 2 – ‘Advanced Blogging’
February 1st, 2011 — Briggs Chapters
This chapter was all about blogs. Most of it is stuff I’ve heard before, that blogging has changed journalism and so on. Like writing, in blogging, you have to read in order to learn how to write. There is a list of the top 100 blogs at Technorati.com. Blogger.com and WordPress.com are two of the […]
Briggs Ch. 1 – ‘We Are All Web Workers Now’
February 1st, 2011 — Briggs Chapters
This chapter was very helpful in explaining a lot of the technical terms you hear but don’t always know what they mean. Have you ever heard of kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes? These prefixes, similar to other units of measure, talk about bytes in large quantities. Why would we need such large quantities of bytes? Take […]
Response to Achenbach Article
February 1st, 2011 — Blog Item
Response to Achenbach article
Media Pyramid
February 1st, 2011 — Blog Item
In both my online journalism class and my introduction to journalism class, I had to make up a media pyramid to show where I get my news from. Twitter feeds are the main way I get my news. 🙂 I usually use Friend Stream to check them. I am guilty of checking my smartphone constantly […]
