tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103938982024-03-07T04:05:08.209-05:00Insert Tech HereNews and views about online media, citizen journalism, and the blogosphere.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comBlogger348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-25861135504481407602007-07-03T12:50:00.000-04:002007-07-03T12:52:50.529-04:00Another HiatusI'm not going to posting for a while -- to stay up to date on developments in online media, I suggest checking out some of the related sites listed in the right hand column. Have a great summer!Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-9173205573102801522007-06-28T08:51:00.000-04:002007-06-28T08:51:28.942-04:00firstamendmentcenter.org: NCAA clarifies position on bloggingFrom the <a href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18723">First Amendment Center</a>: <br /><br />"The NCAA eased its restrictions on blogging and said live updates from its events are permitted as long as they are limited to scores and time remaining."<br /><br />Comment: They still don't get it. Sigh.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-39871485530715289262007-06-28T08:48:00.000-04:002007-06-28T08:48:08.503-04:00Sacramento Bee: Eureka! Letters praising Bush are like gold nuggetsFrom the <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/acuna/story/237234.html">Sacramento Bee</a>: <br /><br />"'We'd love to put pro-Bush letters in,' said [Bill Moore, the paper's letters editor]. 'If a letter like that comes in, it goes to the top of the list. I make a big deal about it."<br /><br />Comment: Aren't they supposed to be 'objective'? If so, why should they care what the balance is between pro- and anti-Bush letters?Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-30279126059733686142007-06-19T08:25:00.000-04:002007-06-19T08:25:49.107-04:00Philadelphia Inquirer: Journalism's future is in global dialogueFrom <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/mark_bowden/8038642.html">Mark Bowden</a>, author of Black Hawk Down: <br /><br />"...without any doubt, the future of daily journalism is digital, not because it is the latest thing, but because it is, quite simply, a far better medium than paper and ink."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-71810674629519648212007-06-14T13:31:00.000-04:002007-06-14T13:32:02.989-04:00International Center for Media and the Public Agenda: Openness & Accountability: A Study of Transparency in Global Media OutletsFrom the <a href="http://www.icmpa.umd.edu/pages/studies/transparency/main.html">International Center for Media and the Public Agenda</a> (ICMPA): <br /><br />"According to this new ICMPA study most news outlets are unwilling to let the public see how their editorial process works. Fewer than half of the websites publicly corrected mistakes in their stories and only a handful shared with readers the journalistic and ethical standards that theoretically guide their newsrooms."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-3067727123690256572007-06-14T13:28:00.000-04:002007-06-14T13:29:57.084-04:00New York Times: Blogger’s Ejection May Mean Suit for N.C.A.A.From the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/sports/baseball/14blogs.html">New York Times</a>: <br /><br />"The eviction of a newspaper reporter from a baseball press box for blogging about a game while it was in progress has stirred a debate about First Amendment rights, intellectual property rights and contract law. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, which on Sunday ejected Brian Bennett of The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., during the Louisville-Oklahoma State game at Jim Patterson Stadium in Louisville, contends it is merely enforcing long-established principles as they apply to a new technology."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-2141091322958252772007-06-13T08:40:00.000-04:002007-06-13T08:41:25.842-04:00Editor & Publisher: 'NYT' Hires Popular TV Blogger As Media ReporterFrom <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003597576">Editor & Publisher</a>:<br /><br />"The New York Times has covered him in its news pages but now it has hired recent college graduate Brian Stelter of TvNewser fame as its newest reporter, according to a memo from business editor Larry Ingrassia posted on Romenesko at <a href="http://www.poynter.org">www.poynter.org</a>."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-37285672622519109192007-06-11T09:41:00.000-04:002007-06-11T09:43:00.374-04:00San Francisco Chronicle: Journalism isn't dying, it's revivingFrom <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/07/EDGGTP3FOE1.DTL">Dan Gillmor</a> on SFgate.com:<br /><br />"Journalism's old guard is in a panic. With the latest bad news -- massive editorial staff reductions coming at the San Francisco Chronicle and believable rumors of similar cuts at an already shrunken San Jose Mercury News, among other things -- it's no wonder that people who care about the traditional journalism business are frightened.<br /><br />"But if the issue is the future of journalism -- as opposed to corporate business models -- there's at least as much reason for optimism as paranoia. The same technologies that are disrupting the news industry are offering unprecedented opportunities for creating a more diverse, and ultimately more vibrant, journalistic ecosystem."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-689204845343605882007-06-06T10:16:00.001-04:002007-06-06T10:16:51.119-04:00Publishing 2.0: New York Times Live Blogging And The Transformation Of JournalismFrom <a href="http://publishing2.com/2007/06/03/new-york-times-live-blogging-and-the-transformation-of-journalism/">Publishing 2.0</a>:<br /><br />"I just went to the New York Times homepage and saw that political reporter Katharine Seelye is “live-blogging” the democrat’s New Hampshire Debate. Newspapers and other mainstream media have had blogs for quite a while, but this strikes me as the moment when blogs officially went mainstream and when journalism crossed a tipping point of evolving into the digital age."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-17781201118402419102007-06-05T10:10:00.000-04:002007-06-05T10:10:51.936-04:00American Journalism Review: Rolling the DiceFrom the <a href="http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4343">American Journalism Review</a>: <br /><br />"A few of the estimated 500 or so 'local-local' news sites claim to show a profit, but the overwhelming majority lose money, according to the first comprehensive survey of the field. The survey, conducted by <a href="http://www.j-lab.org/">J-Lab</a>: The Institute for Interactive Journalism (affiliated with the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, as is AJR), documents a journalism movement that is simultaneously thriving and highly tenuous. While independent sites such as <a href="http://WestportNow.com">WestportNow.com</a> (Connecticut), <a href="http://www.iBrattleboro.com">iBrattleboro.com</a> (Vermont) and <a href="http://www.VillageSoup.com">VillageSoup.com</a> (Maine) have sparked useful civic debates and prodded established media outlets to compete more vigorously, the field as a whole is so far financially marginal. As the report puts it, 'their business models remain deeply uncertain.'"Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-52323874592605592842007-06-05T09:44:00.000-04:002007-06-05T10:05:44.099-04:00firstamendmentcenter.org: Internet expanding scope, meaning of ‘free press’From the <a href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org">First Amendment Center</a>:<br /><br />"There’s no specific definition of “press” in the 45 words of the First Amendment. So who might be bound by responsibilities that go along with the role of a free press? Are bloggers and other Web users part of a broadly defined “press” even though they certainly could not have been envisioned by the Colonial-era Founders who wrote the First Amendment? And what of those who aren’t defined by traditional measures of circulation and ratings, but who may well have global audiences?"<br /><br />...<br /><br />"...surely the First Amendment’s provision for a free press counsels practitioners and product to be more than a transcription service."<br /><br /><i>Comment</i>: The article's author, Gene Policinski, who is the executive director of the First Amendment Center, is referring in the second part of the quote above to the Pasadena Now editor's <a href="http://inserttechhere.blogspot.com/2007/05/editor-publisher-pasadena-local-news.html">plan</a> to have journalists in India report on local council meetings. I think he needs to reread the First Amendment. The idea of 'counseling' journalists to do something specific is more akin to censorship, in my opinion, than to press freedom. <br /><br />On <a href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/internet/topic.aspx?topic=internet_hate_speech">another page</a> from the First Amendment Center's website, I found this quote: "'If the First Amendment protects speech advocating violence, then it must also protect speech that does not advocate violence but still makes it more likely,' the 9th Circuit court said." How can we protect free speech that is (at best) distasteful, but not protect a free press if we don't like how the press is being used? <br /><br />In fact, as far as I understand it, the First Amendment doesn't protect <i>journalists</i>, but a right to a free press. I can't see how we can dictate that journalists do <i>any</i> reporting, let alone the kind of reporting we consider good journalism. If we don't like it, we don't have to read it -- in fact, we now have a truly free (as in beer) press to which we can publish our own quality journalism. If Policinski doesn't like how Pasadena Now is covering council meetings, maybe he should head out to California and do it himself -- or hire another journalist to do it.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-53747781606808761022007-06-01T12:31:00.000-04:002007-06-01T12:31:59.878-04:00stinkyjournalism.org: HOG WASHED!From <a href="http://www.astrobio.net/stinkyjournalism/newsdetail.php?id=45">stinkyjournalism.org</a>:<br /><br />"The Associated Press News Wire, followed by FOX News, reported that a 'monster pig' had been shot by an eleven-year-old boy in rural Alabama. A dramatic photo (see Figure 2) accompanied the story. It showed the young hunter, Jamison Stone, a hardy 5 feet 5 inches, leaning on the back of the stupendous and dead 1,051 pound, 9 foot 4 inch, feral pig. This striking photo, which ran on the front page of the Saturday May 26th, New York Post, created an international news stir. One problem. Evidence collected by Stinky Journalism indicates that the photos, which ran on televisions and newspapers throughout the world, are not the straightforward snapshots they seem--but fakes."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-70943994467538819882007-06-01T11:46:00.000-04:002007-06-01T11:46:09.973-04:00Editor & Publisher: Company Will Track and 'Fingerprint' AP Content on the WebFrom <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003592021">editor & Publisher</a>: <br /><br />"The Associated Press is moving to protect its content by partnering with the technology company Attributor, which will track AP material across the Internet. The arrangement will allow Attributor to 'fingerprint' AP copy down to a level where it can be identified anywhere on the Web."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-6927742944041408752007-05-24T13:21:00.000-04:002007-05-24T13:21:15.424-04:00firstamendmentcenter.org: Hawaii court considers whether Web site reporter is a journalistFrom <a href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18581">firstamendmentcenter.org</a>: <br /><br />"A lawyer trying to get an Internet writer to testify and turn over notes for a court case says Web bloggers shouldn't have the same rights as mainstream reporters."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-61739386510662145092007-05-24T13:06:00.000-04:002007-05-24T13:06:28.008-04:00washingtonpost.com: Interviews, Going the Way of the Linotype?From <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001549.html">Howard Kurtz</a>: <br /><br />"The humble interview, the linchpin of journalism for centuries, is under assault... in the digital age, some executives and commentators are saying they will respond only by e-mail, which allows them to post the entire exchange if they feel they have been misrepresented, truncated or otherwise disrespected. And some go further, saying, You want to know what I think? Read my blog."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-65253807761079766242007-05-24T12:47:00.000-04:002007-05-24T12:47:34.049-04:00The Chronicle of Higher Education: MIT Scores a $5-Million Grant for a Digital News ProjectFrom <a href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2092">The Chronicle of Higher Education</a>: <br /><br />"The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today the first winners of an unusual contest to foster blogs and other digital efforts that seek to bring together residents of a city or town in ways that local newspapers historically have done."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-40708064656797078742007-05-18T11:37:00.000-04:002007-05-18T11:37:02.308-04:00BBC News: Global net censorship 'growing'From <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6665945.stm">BBC News</a>: <br /><br />"The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests. The study of thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service Providers found 25 of 41 countries surveyed showed evidence of content filtering."<br /><br />...<br /><br />"In five years we have gone from a couple of states doing state-mandated net filtering to 25," said John Palfrey, at Harvard Law School."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-48810547742622205942007-05-18T11:13:00.000-04:002007-05-18T11:13:15.594-04:00Wall Street Journal: Why China Relaxed Blogger CrackdownFrom the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117934424740305282-3SjbqsNYk1rnZwPBDE0P5aSSNPg_20080516.html?mod=blogs">Wall Street Journal</a>: <br /><br />"The Chinese government, which spent months mulling over ways to crack down on bloggers, is retreating from its campaign, a development that illustrates the difficulty China faces as it tries to control technology."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-81528632425192433792007-05-17T10:23:00.000-04:002007-05-17T10:25:14.962-04:00WebProNews: NBC Denies YouTube Debate RequestsFrom <a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/05/16/nbc-denies-youtube-debate-requests">WebProNews</a>:<br /><br />"The alliance calling for open licensing of debate footage, which includes conservative blogger/columnist Michelle Malkin and the Huffington Post, have been putting pressure on both the Democratic National Committee (who will sanction 6 debates) and the Republican National Committee to join them."<br /><br /><i>Comment</i>: Any time you have <a href="http://www.michellemalkin.com">Michelle Malkin</a> and the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com">Huffington Post</a> on the same side of an issue, it's worth taking notice. I agree with Markos Moulitsas, who was quoted in the article as saying, "The trappngs of our democracy, which includes the debates, belong to the people, not to powerful media interests." So do the airwaves, last time I checked. NBC should give in on this one ASAP.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-47418210465772854772007-05-15T16:03:00.000-04:002007-05-15T16:04:39.786-04:00BuzzMachine: Smartest media quote of the yearFrom <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/05/14/smartest-media-quote-of-the-year/">Jeff Jarvis</a>: <br /><br />“'<i>We can’t expect consumers to come to us. It’s arrogant for any media company to assume that.</i>' Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, said that in today’s Wall Street Journal explaining CBS’ smarter-than-most strategy for a distributed media economy. This is the way all media executives should be thinking: Go to the people, don’t make the people come to you. That’s expensive for you and inconvenient for them and it’s just not going to happen — or, it’s no way to build a media business model anymore."<br /><br /><i>Comment</i>: Jarvis is right, but unfortunately many old media people still think like <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/doug_clifton/index.ssf?/base/opinion-0/117895954137400.xml&coll=2&thispage=1">this</a>.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-87553304811583522372007-05-15T10:16:00.000-04:002007-05-15T10:16:25.310-04:00Editor & Publisher: Pasadena Local News Site Postpones Coverage by Reporters in IndiaFrom <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003584995">Editor & Publisher</a>: <br /><br />"A local news Web site's editor who hired two reporters in India to cover suburban Pasadena said he's been so overwhelmed by handling reaction to his plan that he had to postpone publication of their first stories."<br /><br /><i>Comment</i>: The outsourcing of journalism begins. If you're a journalist and want to know what this is like, talk to a <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/02/BU270141.DTL">computer programmer</a>.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-35403574922115192522007-05-13T10:55:00.000-04:002007-05-13T10:55:01.464-04:00BBC: Row over Scientology videoFrom the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6650545.stm">BBC</a>: <br /><br />"Scientology has fought many battles to keep its secrets off the web, now they are using it to attack my investigation into them. Scientology has prepared an attack video, and they have shown the Scientology v [BBC reporter John] Sweeney shouting match to anyone who would watch it."<br /><br />Link to short preview of Sweeney's documentary, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHTJkAP5Hg">Scientology & Me</a><br /><br />Link to Sweeney <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHTJkAP5Hg">freaking out</a> at a scientologistMichele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-42342125644296782932007-05-06T19:07:00.000-04:002007-05-06T19:07:15.196-04:00Wired.com: Assignment Zero First Take: Wiki Innovators Rethink OpennessFrom <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/05/assignment_zero_citizendium">Wired.com</a>: <br /><br />"The first piece of citizen journalism created by Assignment Zero, a 'pro-am' collaboration between Wired and NewAssignment.net, explores crowdsourcing. The project still has a month to go, but here's a preview."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-56403867264915019572007-05-06T12:08:00.000-04:002007-05-06T12:08:19.053-04:00BBC: Social lending gains net interestFrom the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6623267.stm">BBC</a>: <br /><br />"Microfinance... is not new, but the web's ability to allow anyone to become a banker to the world's poor certainly is."Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10393898.post-73683562089683788662007-05-06T01:25:00.000-04:002007-05-06T12:10:25.041-04:00CNN: No restrictions on presidential debate footageFrom <a href="http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/05/cnn-presidential-debate-footage.html">CNN</a>: <br /><br />"The presidential debates are an integral part of our system of government, in which the American people have the opportunity to make informed choices about who will serve them. Therefore, CNN debate coverage will be made available without restrictions at the conclusion of each live debate."<br /><br /><i>Comment</i>: Cool move. I'd like some more detail on what they mean by "without restrictions," but if I take it literally, it means there might be some interesting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28video%29">mashups</a> coming out of this.Michele Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01820181961425706699noreply@blogger.com