Adam Weinroth Guest Speaker on 11/16

Adam Weinroth, developer of the blogging tool, EasyJournal, which is now owned by Pluck, will be our guest speaker this coming Wednesday, November 16. This blogging and syndication toolkit now powers the Austin American Statesman's citizen journalism endeavor. Aside of his interests in citizen journalism as it relates to mainstream media, Weinroth has interests in social media and collective action, and has posted an interesting interview with Jon Lebkowsky and Clay Shirky called Tag Team. This interview is about the bubble up nature of folksonomies and tagging, something we have discussed in reference to user-generated categorical organization of content.

Angela Grant has posted a previous blog entry on Weinroth's visit to the UT Multimedia Journalism class here taught by Rosental Alves. Be sure to check out her thorough posting.