New-Media Scholars' Place in 'the Pool' Could Lead to Tenure

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Re:Poste, a Web application that encourages academics to pick apart online articles from the mass media, is only in its infancy. But the program has already generated buzz on a social-networking Web site called the Pool.

"The way you have thought this through is impressive," writes Jon Ippolito in the Pool. He is an...