MuckTech

The web is an ever-changing world, especially for  journalists. It is also becoming a more collaborative environment, with younger journalists helping older understand new technology, and veterans helping the young improve their writing. Teaching new skills to journalists is the main reason I created this website.

Collaboration and learning re also the goals of P2PU.org – a website dedicated to learning about just about anything. Well, some members of the programming and journalism community decided to produce a class to help teach journalists about programming and web designers about journalism.

With this in mind, I am proud to announce I am an initial participant in the Open Journalism & the Open Web project.  From the website:

Hacks/Hackers, Mozilla, the Medill School of Journalism, The Media Consortium and others are teaming up to develop a solid six-week online curriculum that will benefit both “hacks” and hackers (that’s journalists & programmers, in plain English). Each week the course will focus on a different topic, and each week the participants will be joined by a different subject-matter expert (or two) from the field of news innovation.

I am excited to be one of 20 journalists selected for this program (over 100 people applied), created by some of the brightest minds in journalism and the web.  As part of my application, I vowed to chronicle my experience and what I learn on this site.  Over the next six weeks you can expect to see exerts and ramblings from the course.  Hopefully it provides useful information to help in your career.

If you would like to follow along online or find out more details about the course, check it out on P2PU.