Web 2.0 Coolness

For those of you that follow Robert Scoble's Blog at all, or even those that don't, he just participated in a cool podcast by the start-up company Waxxi that shows just how education can be enhanced by horizontal production enhancements online.

Scoble and Shel Israel, co-authors of the book Naked Conversations, talked online with companies and bloggers about the importance of blogging in the changing markets.

The podcast itself was amazing from the standpoint that it was the first interactive podcast (to my knowledge) between audience members and the promoters/speakers.

This is amazing, since it basically opens up e-conferencing to the public, leaving the possibility to for schools to set up groups that invite speakers to interactive speeches.

The possibilities for this technology are way cool, as Frank Gruber blogged about today.

Scoble is right; blogging is changing the face of politics, education, business, and society as a whole.

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Another story in the works

STUDENTS HAVE ARRIVED.

You may have noticed two more links on my page, "vox-veritatis" and "Up in San Jose". They're blogs just started by two students here at SJSU that are going to do regular postings beginning this summer.

I put them on here to highlight the growing trend of student input on the blogosphere - something to which teachers must start paying more attention.

Plus, it's student/citizen journalism at its best - Coda from "vox-veritatis" and I are digging on the story of Victoria Rue right now, the woman who claims to be a Roman Catholic priest at SJSU.

We already interviewed Rue and Fr. Rubio of SJSU Campus Ministry. We're scheduling interviews with the Bishop and Monsignor Cilia next, though depending on their schedules, it may take a while.

You can listen to the audio from each of the interviews by clicking on the links to their names.

Rue's story is quite interesting, as is that of the new blogger helping out on the interview.

I'll post a full story on the interviewing process and working with Coda after the piece is done.

Andrew Venegas
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