Multimedia Timeline

I was browsing Poynter Online and I came across a timeline of multimedia progression starting from 1969 until 2008. You can click on the year and it will give you the history of every major multimedia innovation during that year, I thought it was really cool and a great way to track the advances of media. I would suggest just looking through it, there are some cool things on the timeline. I'll post the link below, or you can just click HERE

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75953&sid=26

Sociologist Michael Omi visits USF

With Senator Obama up for Presidential Candidacy it seems relevant that USF Professor’s of Davies Seminar: Mixed Race/Legacy, Rodriguez and Sundstrom, would press for a guest speaker on multiracial identity. Legendary Sociologist Dr. Michael Omi gave a speech titled “Multiracial Identity, Colorblindness, and the Post Racial Society,” Wednesday. Here's a clip from his speech-

(volumes kinda low so turn it up as loud as your computer can go, it's also sideways)

video is below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlcXhg1prfg

Hypothetically speaking...

If you were a reporter covering this Friday's upcoming Presidential Debate, how would you evenly present both sides of the debate in your story? Putting aside your personal bias how would you cover this story?

I'm just curious to hear what people think.

Photojournalism at its finest

I am in Journalism 3: Photojournalism this semester at USF and my professor Brant Ward showed us a slide show of the pictures he took while working on a beat story about homelessness in San Francisco (For the Chronicle). Since we are all covering beat stories in Journalism 2 I thought this might be apropriate/relevant. Anyways, here is the link- these are some pretty emotion evoking pictures.

Better Journalism Needed

This summer I was looking for coverage about the tragic incident in which a woman was killed by her boyfriend in Texas. I typed into google "girl killed by her boyfriend in Texas" and the first article the popped up on GOOGLE was this one below:
http://www.newsnet14.com/2008/01/texas-girl-barbecued-by-black-boyfriend/

this article came from a white supremacist website. I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinions but is this really the first thing that should pop up? It's completely racist, the headline reads "Texas Girl Barbecued by Black Boyfriend"... if that isn't blatant racism I don't know what else is. I personally think a better piece of journalism should be the first story that comes up on the search engine.