Welcome to ODU 366 Class Blog!
This blog has been created for the class of "Public Journalism in the Digital Age" taught by Dr. Jinsun Lee in the Spring semester of 2011 at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. Each student will develop his/her own blog and network with bloggers.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Victoria Croffie
Slashdot is an online news site which proudly bears the tagline "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". This website publishes user produced content which is also reviewed by said users as well as submitted by them. Each story is forum based so that users can comment and discuss each story in forum based style which over runs the internet. The summaries and links to submitted stories are topics in threads in the forums. Their articles are more centered on technology and science. Slashdot lets you post anonymously and many articles of the same nature link up if related. Slashdot only publishes your story if it is deemed newsworthy in their eyes.
Indymedia on the flipside has articles that focus on political and social issues of news reporting. Their editorial policy is varying for each branch as no two are entirely the same. In general their editorial is fairly loosely based as anyone can post their stories. Indymedia isn't as strict as slashdot as anybody can publish their story as long as it's not a rehashing of what is out on the internet.
I prefer Slashdot over Indymedia because of the forum based content which is moderated and how only relevant articles are reviewed in accepted, allowing lest trash and hate mail to come through as it readily does with Indymedia.
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