This blog is an experiment of the Multimedia Journalism class at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism in the fall semester of 2010. For the final month of the semester, a group of students will be publishing here short, unedited posts related to trends in online journalism and samples of their multimedia projects.
First, I will explain what I mean by "Micro Age"? I am talking about the proliferation of bite-size nuggets of information that lead to massive amounts of information. I believe that in the future this trend will be accelerated with the increased usage of personal RSS readers, news feeds, streams and other platforms where concise pieces of information are present.
