Jay Rosen’s exceptional post on the original 10 Radical Things has been widely linked and is must reading for those who are looking at this form as a way to do and teach journalism. But I think the Five More Radical Things served up at Hypergene Media Blog are equally as interesting. The one I hold the most hope for is “Collaborating and having a conversation with audience members is sure to provide an even more meaningful and memorable experience than passive consumption of news.” Wouldn’t it be a kick if 10 years from now we point to Web logs as one major reason we have become information literate and more active consumers of information? I really think the ways in which we teach our students to collect, process, and apply information is going to have a huge impact on what kind of society we become. It may be a bit romantic to think that Web logs will be the vehicle to large scale change, but it’s nice to think that they might.
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