Anthony Pesce

I am very afraid #Collegejourn will face the same fate as #Journchat because of the involvement of The Campus Buzz. The Buzz is a PR organization, focused at marketing press releases to college journalists. They screen the releases so that hugely irrelevant ones don’t make it through, but they are a PR company. #Collegejourn was their idea. They made the Twitter account, the Facebook and the website, and they will help set the agenda. So here’s my question: why are they so interested in helping the college media community work together to have a conversation and overcome mutual obstacles?

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. I have a final tomorrow I should be studying for, so of course I find myself doing everything possible to avoid thinking about it – like cleaning my room, organizing my RSS reader, and updating this blog. A lot has happened to me and the Bruin since my [...]

So I’ve been at the ACP/CMA conference a few days now, and there are definitely some great things happening here. Some of the workshops have been great, talking to WoodWing was great, and meeting some of my Twitter and CoPress friends has been great. But to be honest I feel like the conference organizers are stuck in [...]

I caved. I finally got a twitter account. I’m not sure yet how often I will use it, but at the very least I will be able to follow everyone I know and keep track of their lives. I suppose I can also link it up to my Facebook status and news feeds. I’m excited about [...]

Today I took a drastic and unprecedented action while I was procrastinating at the Daily Bruin: I deleted my Myspace account. I know, shocking, but it’s a growing trend among many of my friends and associates here at UCLA. The bottom line is that that particular social network is just no longer relevant to my [...]

YouTube has launched a citizen news channel. This could be a great avenue to sort and find citizen news on the internet, and I’m sure it’s going to be great. I’m curious to see where it goes.

There is an interesting new Web site out called knewsroom that crowdsources the aggregation and ranking of news stories like Digg but goes one step further. If community members don’t like the stores they see on a topic they can combine what’s available and write their own – potentially getting paid for their services. This [...]