I’m at the University of British Columbia this morning, teaching in a seminar called “Get Your Hands Dirty - Multimedia for Journalists.” 9:30 a.m., Sunday, even though I should be packing—I must actually care about this stuff.
Donna Logan, director at the new UBC Graduate School of Journalism, is speaking right now—telling this room of graduate students about why new media is important. Blogging is the focus of the day, clearly more than any other aspect of what’s going on online.
I think it’s great that they’re doing this special seminar on online media—maybe they ought to offer a full course in it. (wink)
More as the day progresses. They’re about to introduce me so I ought to stop typing up here on the dias.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)