Today’s journalism students are entering an industry that’s facing a crossroads. These days, newspapers and media in general are adapting and growing at a rapid pace, and it’s essential that students keep up, or they’ll be left in the dust. By reading these blogs, you can keep an ear to the ground on the latest developments that matter the most to journalism students.

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These blogs offer general information to journalism students.

1. PoynterOnline: Read news and tips about writing, reporting, and more.
2. Common Sense Journalism: Doug Fisher’s blog offers a view of common sense journalism in new and old media.
3. The Editorialiste: Andrew Nusca offers his writing about media issues.
4. Lost Remote: Lost Remote discusses the future of TV and the business of journalism.
5. Institute for Analytic Journalism: This institute researches and develops non-traditional analytic methods and tools for journalism.
6. Innovation Journalism: Read this blog to learn about journalism, information, public affairs, and more on Innovation Journalism.
7. JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Media: This class blog will help you learn about interviewing, gathering information, and more for writing and reporting.
8. Tony’s Journalism Blog: Read Tony’s blog to see the latest news stories in journalism. (more…)
   

Ah, Twitter (). It’s impossible to get away from it; it seems that everyone stopped whatever they were doing B.T. (before Twitter) and switched to doing cool stuff for and around the service, and this includes data visualizations. In the past, we’ve profiled unique Twitter-related visualizations, but now we’re after sheer beauty. And that’s exactly what we’ve found; here are six gorgeous Twitter visualizations.

Know of a beautiful Twitter visualization? Let us know in the comments!

1. Social Collider

Although it’s a bit too slow for everyday usage and functions better as pure eye candy, Social Collider is actually quite an interesting tool. It tracks conversations based on users or topics on Twitter in the following way: if a tweet didn’t start a conversation, it just connects vertically to the next tweet. If it did, it connects to the next conversation horizontally. Depending on the user or topic you choose, it can be a visual treat or complete information overload (try β€œMashable ()” for an example of that). (more…)

Cheating in the classroom is as old as the classroom itself. But teachers need to wise up to their students’ technological savvy. Peeking over their shoulders to glimpse responses on a classmate’s papers and coughing in tune with answers are old school. Today’s students are cheating by programming answers into their graphing calculators and beaming them to friends, texting answers to exam questions — or sending images of the answers — and recording cheat sheets and playing them back on their iPods during exams.

TheΒ Seasteading Institute, a self-described “society of ocean pioneers” has announced the winners of its first-ever 3-D design competition–five visions for floating a housing development the size of a small town on an ocean platform.

The Institute, founded byΒ Patri Friedman, a 32-year-old former software engineer at Google, wants to make offshore living workable. With funding from a top-tier VC, the Institute eventually hopes to produce open-source blueprints usable by anyone intent on creating their own country. They’ve already producedΒ a designΒ for a $50 million platform.

But the current concepts aren’t intended to be built–rather, it’s an exercise to promote the concept–to visualize what a life offshore might be like. Here’s the five winners, culled from 41 entries:

“Swimming City” designed by 27-year-old Hungarian graphic designer Andras Gyorf, took the grand prize of $1,000. It’s the most traditional of the schemes. Step away the floating platform, and the design could easily be a mixed-use redevelopment of factory lofts in Dallas:Β 

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Last weekend I had attended the BarCampKL 2009 @INTI College, Subang. It’s a great event and great presentors, topic raise from technical to social. Some topics I had attended : Travel 2.0, Get fund for your innovation and creative idea, the stingy web startup, Open Social, Browser War, Do we need a BM FireFox, Why some mutations are awesome for your company, from Geek to Chique, Corporate brands in social media…

And you can see the photos at :Β http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampkl

and at: http://picasaweb.google.com/viirak/BarcampKL2009?feat=embedwebsite#

You can download sample chapter here…

It’s a 242 pages book in Khmer Language. Please see the table of content below:

Table of Content

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I had design CD box and label for Khmer Software, Khmer Unicode and openSUSE 11.0.

And now it’s available on the market. You can buy and try using all this Khmer Software.

It would be fun to take a look atΒ the homepages of the Top 30 technology companiesΒ (the order of this list was determined by theΒ InfoTech 100Β from Business Week), and assign them aΒ PASSΒ orΒ FAIL rating based on the quality of their homepage design.

1. Amazon.com:Β PASS

Although it may be a little cluttered for my taste, it would be short-sighted to say that the Amazon.com homepage is a FAIL. Amazon has created a company that has landed at the top of the InfoTech 100, and the fact that one hundred percent of their sales are made online shows that they understand how to use their website to attract and retain customers.

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