So, I decided to try out Publish2 and figure out what "link journalism" is all about.
So far it seems like bookmarking by journalists, which sounds like a flippant remark except that, almost every time I check out web tools for journalists I feel like they're clumsier versions of tools that bloggers and, yes, civilians already use.
I'll come back to that theme, since changes in journalism are one of my interests, though I'm sorry to say it's a field where I'm more struck by the mistakes than by the triumphs. And I do see some things they're doing that represent the beginning of a useful service tailored to journalists, and that's how I think web tools should be built, so I'm not passing judgment. I'm just saying.
But I do greatly appreciate being able to use their system, in fact, it may lead to me moving off TypePad and onto another platform because I'd like to publish the links on the site rather than simply having a sidebar widget. Now that Delicious and TypePad don't seem to get along, I may have to move this project to Wordpress.
I don't want to do that but that's how it goes sometimes.
I also want to thank Publish2 because seeing these particular bookmarks outside my now massive Delicious account is enabling me to initiate a clearer process of thinking my way into certain areas of interest.
Because I've been trained as a qualitative researcher by cutting edge social scientists, with additional methodology classes from and independent study related to multiple fields beyond my doctoral requirements (PhD in Cultural Studies, OSU, 2000), I feel I need to explain that this is one approach in which the rather overmarketed concept of the "research question" is replaced by a process in which things aren't pinned down so rapidly since we don't have to kill it to study it.
More on all this to follow though I'll mostly be going quick and light for the time being.
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