Kenya’s magical safari
May 28, 2008Kenya is the home of the safari.
The boundless wilderness and big game of this region has long attracted adventure seekers from all over the globe. No other African country can boast such an incredible range of landscapes, unique geographical features and species.
This is a land of endless potential for the wildlife enthusiast. From great migratory herds of the open savannah to an incredible abundance of birdlife, from the depths of a tropical rainforest to the depths of the Indian Ocean teeming with fish, this a world of natural wonders.
A safari into the wilds of Kenya is a journey into nature at its purest. Everywhere you look there is a profusion of life…
Kenya offers the visitor a chance to experience a natural world unchanged by the passage of time. The Kenyan wilderness is home to an endless array of ecosystems, the staging ground for natural cycles of life, death and regeneration as old as the planet itself.
This great range of natural habitats means that there is plenty to explore, and plenty of species to encounter.
Nature Parks
May 28, 2008Despite its recent ethnic/tribal clashes, Kenya remains one of the best spots for nature parks. Below is nature parks of LAKE BOGORIA & LAKE BARINGO Kenya. You are welcome to visit them
Earth-touch (video)
May 28, 2008Africa is rich in world life and this video is an example of the different types of worldlife that Africa has.
Is Blogging Journalism
May 27, 2008Are bloggers journalism? Certainly they can be. Several journalists keep Weblogs, although only a handful of them actually get paid to do so by their news organizations. Andrews (2003) argues that that vast majority of journalists do not blog.
Journalists use their best reporting in the stories they write. What is left over for a blog? On the flip side, most of the million or so bloggers (it’s a tough crowd to estimate) would not call themselves journalists.
The majority of blogs are simply personal Web sites, posted because blogging software automates much of the HTML coding needed for Web publication. This convenience appeal has led some to predict that the medium will fade once the even greater convenience of real-time, word processor like editing of any Web site becomes the norm.
Is the blog posted by a corporate information technology manager for internal staff consumption serving as a journalistic venue in some sense?
Andrews (2003) in his article on ‘Is Blogging Journalism” opines that though reportorial contributions have been made by the Web generation, it is fair to say the vast majority of blogging does not qualify as journalism. If journalism is the imparting of verifiable facts to a general audience through a mass medium, then most blogs fall well short of meeting the standard. Many blogs focus on narrow subject matter of interest to a select but circumscribed niche. And the blogs that do contain bona fide news are largely derivative, posting links to other blogs and, in many cases, print journalism.
I concur with Andrews when he asserts that blogs—in tandem with another much-underestimated medium, the e-mail list—are transforming the ways in which journalism is practiced today and perhaps are giving impetus to new journalistic venues that have not yet clarified themselves.
Author Elbert Hubbard once said editors separated the wheat from the chaff— and then printed the chaff. Bloggers print, link and comment on the wheat. In doing so, bloggers often nudge print media to richer and more balanced sourcing outside the traditional halls of government and corporations.
Just as importantly, blogs serve as a corrective mechanism for bad journalism— sloppy or erroneous reporting. To the extent that a blogger knows something about a particular topic, he or she can take a news report into a more detailed and illuminating realm. The Weblog does not lend itself to factual documentation as much as to observation, analysis, background— the kinds of amplitude that lend greater interpretations and understanding to raw information. And blogs, because they offer instant interactivity, are much better at engendering dialogue and exchange. In the sense that many minds contribute to greater understanding, blogs can take journalism’s who-what-where-when and how pyramid better into the realm of why.
It might be that mass media of tomorrow will evolve further toward the blogging paradigm and journalism will expand from a centralized, top-down, one-way publication process to the many-hands, and perpetual feedback loop of online communications. For now, to the extent that bloggers’ efforts prod journalists to be better at what they do, they are a valuable adjunct to—but not substitute for—quality journalism.
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