The Triblocal site recently ran an interesting profile of one of our Broadcasting Students,  WONC on-air personality, Paige Spangler. Click here to read more.

Apparently everyone has a blog there days, including dogs. Check out this story from CNN:

(LifeWire) — It goes without saying that Max, a 3-year-old golden retriever can’t talk. But that doesn’t stop him from chronicling his dog’s life — as told to his owner Aubrey Jones — on the blog Max the Golden Retriever.

One of the students in my “Introduction to New Media” class, Tori, posted recently about the Iranian government’s harsh treatment of bloggers. This is an issue that deserves a lot more public attention than it has so far received. And it’s worth noting that the so-called ” axis of evil” (Iran, Syria, North Korea) doesn’t have a monopoly on politically-motivated repression of the blogosphere. The U.S.-backed Mubarak regime in Egypt routinely arrests and tortures bloggers for dissident political speech; meanwhile, one of our country’s main trading partners, China, has closed down, or attempted to close down, all bloggers failing to register with the government. According to the journalists’ rights advocacy group Reporters without Borders, “Cyber-dissident and blogger He Weihua was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Hunan, southern China in August 2007.” The struggle to secure the “freedom to blog” is shaping up to be the free speech fight of the 21st Century.

A recent campaign ad from presidential candidate John McCain misspelled his own name.  Doh!

http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2008/04/heh-indeeb.html 

Check out this video of the Association of Student Communicators’ 2nd ever Rock-Paper-Scissors Challenge, courtesy of the Daily Herald.

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