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via Scot Hacker, then via Radio Free Blogistan.

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism invites you to a Sept. 17 panel discussion on:

Weblogs: Challenging Mass Media and Society

Weblogs have received a lot of press lately, and journalism Weblogs are proliferating. Are Weblogs rejuvenating public discussion?. Are they an alternative to mass media?

Join us in a discussion with:

Rebecca Blood Author of "The Weblog Handbook" and creator of Rebecca's Pocket, one of the first-wave Weblogs.

Dan Gillmor San Jose Mercury News Technology Columnist and author of Dan Gillmor?s eJournal Weblog

Meg Hourihan Co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs," co-founder of Blogger.com, and creator of megnut.com, one of the earliest weblogs

J.D. Lasica Online Journalism Review Senior Editor and author of the New Media Musings Weblog

Scott Rosenberg Salon Managing Editor and creator of Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comments Weblog

Tuesday, Sept. 17
6:30 pm

Journalism School Library
North Gate Hall
UC Berkeley

The event is free and open to the public. Please pass this invitation along to anyone else who might be interested in attending.

(Directions to the J-School) Street parking should be available within a few blocks of the school, which is on the northern edge of the campus.

If you have any questions contact Journalism School New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz at grabs@uclink.berkeley.edu

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From NewScientist: Musical approach helps programmers catch bugs. Professors developed a system that automatically converts Pascal source code into simple "music". 

Vickers and Alty assigned particular musical phrases to different Pascal language constructs, such as conditional statements and loops. A synthesised chord, for example, represents conditional statements such as "IF TRUE". A loop could have an ascending string of synthesised notes associated with it.

When different sections of code are put together, they should form a harmonious tune. But if a loop, for example, does not execute properly, the music would not ascend properly and the programmer should hear the error. Similarly, a duff statement would produce a different chord that would be immediately apparent.

It worked in tests: listeners caught more bugs.

So take it to the blogosphere.

Can we mine RCS community servers, blogs and posts for metadata to compose a live music track?

Help me tell posts/sources apart. Help wade through hundreds of feeds and thousands of posts in a newsreader.

• Use popularity, link density, post length, freshness, Flesch and other readability statistics, comment thread length

Help me find gems.

• Connections with my blog, the relevance of this source's last 50 posts to my last 50 posts.

This is not audio blogging so much as blog visualization. Cool. Something to do after DayPop and blog SNA become blasé.

I sing the blogspace electric.