The San Jose Weblogger Meetup Today

What: The San Jose Weblogger September Meetup

When: Thursday, September 28 at 6:00PM
Where: Tony Soprano's Pizzeria
87 E. San Fernando Street Near SJSU Downtown
San Jose CA 95113
408-271-9707

Event Description:
This will be another meetup for The San Jose Weblogger Meetup Group! These meetups are a great opportunity for bloggers and podcasters from the community to meet university students, faculty and staff whom are also interested in Web 2.0 technologies. Lets use the time to get to know each other, talk about being bloggers and/or podcasters, and discuss our common interests. This is a blogger dinner / geek dinner. We may do a "pizzacast" podcast during or after the dinner if there is interest.

Podcasting, Transcripts and Accessibility

Is it enough to just do transcripts to provide equal access to information for the hearing impaired? In speech a totally different meaning is garnered from a sentence depending where the emphasis is placed in the sentence. This may not carry over into a transcript, For example, the question "what did you do?"

If this question is asked without any emphasis being put on any words the question has one meaning. The same question has a totally different meaning than if the same is asked with the emphasis on the word "what." This question has again another meaning than if the same is asked with the emphasis on the word "you."

Do transcripts alone give equal access to the information conveyed in a spoken sentence, especially if the podcast consists of conversations with all the subtle audio inflections given to how people communicate verbally?

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Podcast: Phil Wolff Speaks at SJSU about Skype Issue

Podcast: 01:21:46 duration, 74.9 MB MP3 - Posted Sep. 27, 2006 Raw audio, recorded September 26, 2006.
To listen to high quality audio, click here –> MP3 File Here
Here you can hear the unedited presentation to our Journalism 163 class at San Jose State University by Phil Wolff, the Managing Editor for the online magazine Skype Journal. Wolff speaks here about Skype, the recent events surrounding the proposed ban of Skype at SJSU and the world of Web 2.0 technologies. Here is his post in Skype Journal about the talk. All opinions given, as always, are those of the speakers.

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Venegas posts about Skype Journal's Wolff

Andrew Venegas, writing for the Spartan Daily Blog, covered the presentation to our New Media in Journalism class by Phil Wolff, the Managing Editor for the online magazine Skype Journal. Wolff's visit was prompted by all the buzz in the blogosphere about the now canceled plan to block Skype at SJSU. It was great to hear Wolff's presentation and is great to see that Venegas and others are breathing life into the Spartan Daily Blog.

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Stay of Execution for Skype at SJSU

The very short version, they are NOT going to be pulling the plug on Skype at San Jose State University. Stay tuned for more!

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SJSU podcasting class for faculty gets recognition

Here is a great story about the classes that SJSU is offering faculty about podcasting. This is related to the iTunesU project. Menko Johnson deserves a lot of recognition for the fine job he is doing for SJSU. Way to go Menko!

Viral Spread of SJSU/Skype Story

Posts that contain "San Jose State University" + Skype per day for the last 30 days.

Get your own chart!

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Why our students need Skype

Why does a student need Skype? For the same reason I do as an educator. Students need Skype so they can freely engage in collaboration and communication. If our university blocks Skype and other universities do not, we will be routed around. We will be at an competitive disadvantage at gaining market share in our market.

I use Skype every day in my work at San Jose State University. I have collaborated with fellow educators world wide using Skype. These conversations happen because I make public my Skype name.

If Skype is so evil, why is it allowed inside IBM and (I am told, Yahoo and other major corporations?) If it is such a terrible evil bandwidth hog why does my ISP route it?

Skype is the emerging standard in this segment. If there are four universities who block it because it is such a network killer why are hundreds of times that number allowing it? I am looking forward to hearing Ebay’s perspective on this issue on Tuesday.

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SJSU bloggers take lead on Skype Story

Friday SJSU student Andrew Venegas posted this great post about how it is the bloggers that have taken the lead on the Skype/SJSU story. Students have pursued the story and one posted a rather terse email that was sent by an administrator to a student. I think the idea that an administrator's email could go from an email, to a student's blog post, to the cover of the Mercury News Business Section must have a bit off the email writer's radar. Comments are coming in from around the world. It is amazing and a great experience for the students in this class!

Day in the life of the Help Desk

Fellow employee Jason Ferguson made this fun movie of where I work.