OJ and ethical issues

For our blog this week Kodi posed us a question about Online Journalism and liebl.
He said, "One of the ethical issues not mentioned in class this week but nonetheless crucial to OJ is the potential for libel. Because of the ever-present nature of archives in this new form of journalism, people whose names may have been cast in bad light eons ago don't appear to be cleared at all -- online. Journalism doesn't correct or retract archives."

For me after reading the 3 articles that he provided, I thought this is a non issue. I think the Slate said it best, "you may think reputation belongs to you, but it doesn't. It lives inside the heads of other people, and now inside Google. It's their possession. If you want to change it, do something to convince people and the Web that you aren't who they think you are."

It is not the job of times or any other news organization to go back to every single article and fix what at the time was printed was fact. If a person was charged with a crime but then charges were later dismissed, it does not change the fact that they were charged. That is the truth and going back to edit it so it doesn't show up in search engines would be changing history in a way.

I do think libel is an issue with online journalism but I feel that this is not libel. I feel that people are more likely to slander individuals online because most online publications do not have the same editing processes as print papers.

Lions, Tigers and RSS feeds, OH MY

During the course of this course, kodi asked us to make an rss feed. RSS stands for "rich site summary or real simply syndication" according to make-rss-feeds.com Rss feeds are made with XML and after a little bit of practice are not that hard to make. Feeds are nice because they provide a link with little room for information to get lost with the page. My team, TEAM PINK, was able to create and rss feed rather quickly, in fact we were the first and we did it from scratch. There were some issues at first but I was able to figure them out after I took a look at the page source for another rss feed.

Flash effects

So The week of the 15th we started working with flash. I had some experience in flash, I liked making stick figure movies in high school. Kodi had us do 7 different tutorials in groups. The first 3 were just getting to know flash. The other 4 were Fade in, Zoom in, Blur, and photo slide show. It was a little difficult because the tutorials were meant for windows so some of the commands were different. I really only found one way to use flash on my site was in the banner. I used the Zoom effect and the Fade effect. I feel it is an effective use of flash on my site. The overall experience was okay and I did not mind working in groups. It was a good way to expand my learning by helping others.

Behaviors on my site, just a little late....

So although I am a little late on this post, I feel like its better to have the behaviors working before I link to them as an example of my work. Sooo first thing first. Swap Image and open new window are in the same link. I thought it would be cool to incorporate the both. I have it on my homepage on the left hand side nav bar. I tried to have it on my published work page but it would not work. Something happened and neither Maeve or myself could figure it out. I did a pop up window and play a sound on my Links Page. I think it works well the pop up window lets everyone that all the links open in a new window, and the sound... well I just used that for entertainment. I made it myself in garageband. I used jump menus on all of my pages. I put it on the upper right hand corner of the page. It works well as an alternate form of navigation.


Most of these behaviors are used on journalistic sites. The open new browser window is used on site to illustrate more info or for movies and slide shows. An example is the Gallery of pope John Paul II early childhood. The link is on the left "Gallery: His Life"
Kodi's example of Swap on his Nyc24.org article is a good one. Jump menus are a good way to navigate to another article about a similar subject or to personalize a page. I think the one that works the least is sounds. Clicks sounds and sound bites I think add the least to a page. Audio clips of speeches i think work well however.

Thats all I for now..... hopefully i will be better with the coming blogs.