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Thanks!

LeeNYC — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:51:47 -0500

Thank you! I didn't know about Alltop but I'll check it out.

You may be right

Kim Pearson — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:27:55 -0500

About 15 years ago, Kevin Barnhurst at the University of Illinois published a book called Seeing the Newspaper, about the newspaper as a physical object. His argument was that the design conventions of the American newspaper gave the citizens of an ascendant empire a sense of coherence and mastery of the world around them. Although he did not anticipate the impact of the Internet, he did say that newspaper design was changing to reflect the flattening of structures and foundational narratives that cultural theories describe as part of post-modernism. Indeed, Johndan Johnson-Eilola has described the close connection between post-modernist culture and the emergence of hypertext itself.

If Barnhurst and Eilola are right, then it makes sense for newspapers to shift to helping people order and reflect upon the small narratives of their immediate lives. It would also make sense that there would be the parallel phenomena of massive aggregators and blogging communities in which people take apart and bring together information and ideas and deliberate upon their multiple and shifting meanings. This changes our idea of the way democracy functions, though, and that, I think, requires more conversation.

Thanks for all of your great thoughts!

Kim
BlogHer Contributing Editor|Professor Kim|

Best of luck with your project

Kim Pearson — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:03:14 -0500

Aggregation project such as yours and Alltop.com are great ways to get smatterings of news from around the globe. Thanks for letting us know about your project.

Kim
BlogHer Contributing Editor|Professor Kim|

new site for 24/7/365 news junkies

LeeNYC — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:53:35 -0500

Dear Kim,

Since it sounds like you like the news as much as I do, I wanted to share some info on my family's new project. We designed a website with for 24/7/365 news junkies. Because we are a small business with no advertising budget, I am trying to get the word
out about our site:

MostEmailedNews.com

Most news websites have that little box somewhere on the first page
telling you the top stories that people are sending to each other.

MostEmailedNews.com takes those boxes from a bunch of different news sources
(ranging from sites such as The NY Times, BBC, Times of India and CNN) and puts them all together for you. It
gives you a nice cross section of what people are emailing.

It's not yet finished but I thought I would share it with you. It's quite addictive since
I'm on it all the time now. Check it out and If you like it, please tell your friends!

Lenora Brennan
MostEmailedNews.com

Newspapers: Last bastion of hope

amcreynolds — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:28:42 -0500

Professor Kim,

Newspapers have returned to hyper-local coverage of their backyards -- connecting us again to our next door neigbhors. Community journalism celebrates ritual and routine -- and rekindles our love of storytelling. Above all, newspapers retain the visual impact of photojournalism.

In the future, will we sit on the front porch with our laptops at daybreak to see game highlights -- and relish in our sons' and daughters' triumphs? Can you scrapbook blogs? Or will we self-publish photobooks from snapshots captured by point-and-shoot digital cameras?

A.M. McReynolds

info@backyardbeacon.org Backyard Beacon www.backyardbeacon.org

Important words

Candelaria Silva — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:05:38 -0500

Kim, I've been working on a blog about why I still read the news-paper. Thank you so much for this post.

I realize that I don't know everything I want to know or learn about. Browing the paper cover-to-cover like I do in Boston and in other cities when I travel, helps me discover connections with other people and places, information I can use and pass on (I either send clippings or forward articles electronically), and truly earth-shattering stuff that doesn't show up on the electronic versions of the news.

Newspapers are important. You are so right. Thanks for posting this.

Candelaria - Good and plenty!

I'll take you up on that!

Kim Pearson — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:44:34 -0500

Hi Kalyn!

I would love to take you up on that. And if you are in New Jersey, call or e-mail me and you can have your pick of my favorite places for Indian food, soul food or American bistro cuisine. :-)

Kim
BlogHer Contributing Editor|Professor Kim|

It is a beautiful place

Kalyn Denny — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:29:42 -0500

Utah has so much scenic beauty. There are the mountains for skiers in the north and Lake Powell and all the national parks in the South. I do get frustrated with the politics, but you're right, it's such a good place to live around nice people.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

I discovered Utah too and it rocks!

TCMom — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:49:25 -0500

I'm an easter coaster too and discovered SLC and Utah on a cross country college trip. A unique place to be sure but I was pleasantly surprised by its diversity and real connection to the environment. And WOW are the ppl nice there. Anyway, I ventured out to all the parks in Utah and have since been back with my husband and will take my kids someday too. Its heaven on earth out there and can see why maybe a community settled down and felt close to God in that state.

Caroline

http://morningsidemom.wordpress.com/

That's my town!

Kalyn Denny — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:19:59 -0500

Most people don't know that the actual city of Salt Lake is less than 50% Mormon. It's actually a pretty nice place to live (although I could take a pass on winter.)

Kim, next time you get stuck in Salt Lake give me a call (or e-mail) and I will take you to the best Mexican restaurant in the U.S.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

I like reading stuff from other cities...

nelle2nelle — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:48:01 -0500

and used to do more of it than I actually do now, sigh.

My news is organised by local/regional/national, with subsets for lgbt and women (women's enews, Women's MediaCenter, SheSource, Feminist Weekly News, and Bitch Magazine.) This helps when putting forth new disccusion material on other places...

anyway, my regional folder used to have quite a few papers from around the country. After my last computer crash maybe 2 years ago, only one remains, SFGate, which always appealed to me.

You can really get a nice feel for an area - even from your own home - by checking out their local newspaper online.

nelle