Friday-night blog roundup

What are Journalism of the Web students blogging about this week? Check it out:

• Evan Brunell has been following the latest about two Web celebrities: Jay Rosen and lonelygirl15.
• Thomas Chen tried a podcast of the Boston Globe's front-page stories and decides he'd rather read the paper online. (Is that old-fashioned or new-fashioned?)
• Chris Estrada observes that, in sports media, podcasting is giving a louder voice to the ordinary fan.
• Rajashree Joshi points to an article at Zmag.org and asks whether the proliferation of blogs will bring us any closer to the truth.
• Jane Mackay offers some thoughts on Jay Rosen's celebrated new pro-am journalism project, NewAssignment.Net.
• Mike Naughton tells us that the Globe is starting to emulate its corporate cousin the New York Times by offering some of tomorrow's stories (well, at least a few paragraphs) tonight.
• Lisa Panora says that the media aren't the only institutions moving online -- so are J-schools.
• Chelsea Petersen offers evidence that U.K. newsrooms are moving ahead of their American counterparts when it comes to technology.
• Donna Roberson ponders Google's new for-profit venture into philanthropy.
• Blythe Simmons tracks teen magazines that are moving from print to the Web.
• Rachel Slajda wonders if newspapers could fight back against Craigslist by giving away their classified ads, and selling display ads on each screen of classifieds.
• Celia Soudry looks at the Facebook stalker controversy and finds the company's now-dropped plans to be "downright creepy."
• Glenn Yoder notes that the Web enabled Bruce Springsteen to respond to the gossip-mongerers unfiltered.

And, finally, one from the editor's desk. Mark Glaser reports that MSNBC.com will drop its reliance on Microsoft's Windows Media Player/Internet Explorer platform and move to Flash, which has been embraced by sites ranging from YouTube to the New York Times.

In fact, the rollout seems to be taking place even faster than Glaser was told. I was watching Brian Williams on my iBook with Firefox and Flash just a little while ago. It's about time. And it's one less reason for us loyal Mac users to consider switching to Windows.