Print vs. Blog: The Many Faces of Cultural Journalism

This event is tomorrow at the 92nd Street Y at 7pm. Thought any of you who are in the city might want to go. I would love to but not sure I can make it in tomorrow.

Print vs. Blog: The Many Faces of Cultural Journalism
Village Voice Publisher Michael Cohen, Voice editor-in-chief Tony Ortega, Alana Taylor of Mashable.com and Jake Dobkin, publisher of Gothamist, discuss the current state of arts and cultural journalism. Has the rise of online periodicals and cultural blogs eroded arts reporting? Will alternative print newspapers survive the economic downturn? What will arts aficionados read in the years to come? Join us for this fascinating look at the changing landscape of arts journalism.

Social Media Part 2: The Effect on Education

Hi guys,
The second installment of this post is now up. Check out the Social Media Effect on Education.
-Robin

Social Media Part 1: In the News

Hi guys,
My latest blog posting on Social Media. For our Music Ed teachers, there's a little something in it just for you... Please use IE if you want to view the embedded video. It doesn't seem to work in Firefox.
-Robin

Old Growth Media and the Future of News:

Fascinating speech entitled Old Growth Media and the Future of News: (From StevenBerlinJohnson.com
http://tinyurl.com/bq2tu8 and then the update to the speech written recently:

An excerpt: today’s media is in fact much closer to a real-world ecosystem in the way it circulates information than it is like the old industrial, top-down models of mass media. It’s a much more diverse and interconnected world, a system of flows and feeds – completely different from an assembly line. That complexity is what makes it so interesting, of course, but also what makes it so hard to predict what it’s going to look like in five or ten years.