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To argue that the establishment clause or the free exercise clause elevates preachers to the same levels of constitutional protection that the press has embodied in the First Amendment isn't legally unsupported in years of case law we have on the subject.

Kyle, care to cite some case law there? I think you'll find that religious organizations are far and away more protected than "press" organizations.

And I note that you conflate "press" with "individual journalists" which is a problem.

You also don't address the other "professions" like community organizer, lobbyist, or comedian re: free speech.

More importantly, the band makes money, since iTunes gives most of the sale to the producers. And since they're an indie label, less corporate overhead!

Yeah, Twitter kind of slipped in at the last minute. I also think there are ways to organize the list differently - thinking social vs. multimedia vs. engagement or something.

Cry me a river. The financial services industries have shed thousands of jobs (BoA is expected to let go of 42,000 total). I'm *positive* there are some highly talented, highly skilled, qualified people in those laid off who would be more than willing to work for $500,000/year.

High pay does not necessarily equal most capable in any industry. Sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know. :-)

And I don't think it's a "gotcha" quote either. He is clueless if he used the term "draconian" to talk about $500,000/year pay to a reporter.

Thought-provoking article. I am sick of the term "social media" however (just as I grew sick of "new media" and "convergence" before it). Isn't all "media" social in some way? When something is published, isn't part of the DNA of its existence the desire that it spread across some sort of social system?

I listened to that OTM podcast over the weekend and thought it was the biggest piece of navel-gazing I've heard in a long time. Who cares? And who cares what Jarvis thinks about it?

Daniel is even submitting an application for the Knight News Challenge!

I don't mean to discourage him, but UCLA won a knight grant to develop an open-source college CMS last year. It's supposed to be tested on their site this year.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the issue isn't really the CMS, it's the maintenance and hosting. There is a group of people grappling with this issue on the adviser side right now, too.

Have you tried installing MAMP? It's supposedly really easy to install a MySQL-Apache-PHP configuration on a Mac. Not sure if that will solve your problem or not. I installed MySQL a while back to try out Drupal and it didn't present too many problems.

Good luck.

You also missed (or ignored) Snapz Pro (Mac Only), which is $70 from ambrosia software.

The Pew studies are a great resource for data that you can repurpose. I used one of their internet studies in my Ph.D. statistics class. Good luck. It'll be interesting to see what you come up with.

The multimedia course should be required of *every* journalism student.

Wow, what chutzpah! I'd rather you called me "mr." or "ms." than mispelled my first name (which happens all too often, unfortunately).

That said, I don't think you'll have a problem getting an internship.

Hmmm, I haven't seen that checklist yet, but it's a good one. The print/web publishing issue is going to be a big one for everyone in college media, especially, over the next couple of years, IMHO.

Congrats, Megan, both on the forethought at the Alligator and your new gig as New Media Managing Editor. I'm sure you'll get the other checkboxes figured out soon. :-) (hint: the writing for the web one seems to give everyone fits)

Megan, have you seen this news:

Ubuntu Studio.

Added. Our first student submission. I think it's fun to hear which music people choose for their paloozahead.

I've come to appreciate instant messaging as a "bridge" between e-mail and phoners - and both sides can have a transcript of the "conversation." It takes a little getting used to so you don't step on each others' comments, and can take a while, but a sensible compromise, overall.

You have the right idea. I wouldn't just watch online video though. I'd also watch good documentary video, and listen to This American Life, for instance. They now have a TV show. I wonder what it's going to be like, since I don't subscribe to Showtime.

Do you write about how to blog?

Heh. One of the first things a blogger learns to do is write about blogging. :-) I call it navel-gazing (meta-blogging, in academese), and if you peruse the archives of even the most ancient of bloggers (Instapundit, for example), you'll find plenty of thoughts about blogging.

For those with interests in social policy, navel-gazing is frequently followed by the "is blogging journalism?" debate.

You are required to read *the entire* New York Times AND Gainesville Sun every day!?!? Ouch. Granted, only about 45 percent of it is actually editorial, and only about 40 percent of that has any real value, but still...

OMG! That makes it even more tragic! I've seen that attitude among young print reporters, but didn't know it exists among online types as well. Wow.

"Blog" is hardly a buzzword, despite what your friend in the online department says, unless a word that's been around for at least six years to describe a way of easily publishing information to the Internet qualifies as a "buzzword." And he's far from original in the arguments he's making - despite the fact that they've been constantly demolished by thoughtful "bloggers" for several years - including journalists. indeed, I see these arguments trotted out by every tired journalist/curmudgeon who wants to distance him/herself from the unwashed masses of people creating their own content.

It's sad, really, that someone who works in the online world is so disdainful of a significant portion of what makes it vibrant - 14-year-olds and all.

Well, I suppose I'll be the one to speak up for Gen X. You may be confusing us with the Baby Boomers. I know quite a few 30-40 year olds who fit the description of your Gen Y. We were the first generation to experience cable, the real video game revolution (go Atari!) and the beginning of the personal computer revolution as well.

The same things about "traditional companies" and our relationship to them were said when I was coming out of school. I do think the impetus to change is more evident today than it was, if only because the Internet is much more advanced than it was in 1990.

Be sure and let us know when you get that story on the web, and I'll link it. To be honest, I got the tip about the BSU map from the Atlas folks, who are able to track who's using the application. Otherwise, I'd be totally in the dark. :-)

David Cohn will be speaking at our CMA session in New York this March. Good thing we booked him before he became a "hero." :-)