citizen journalist cook book
here is much being written about the pluses and minuses of citizen journalism and its influence on professional news gathering, but there's nothing like a report from the trenches. An excellent example...
View Articledesktop vs. browser apps
rguments about the advantages and disadvantages of web-based applications are raging across the net. If the topic interests you, the discussion going on over at Read/Write Web is well worth a read. On...
View Articleanonymous blogging explored
loggers who choose to mask their offline identities behind a pseudonym or no name at all are increasingly common, raising questions about the integrity and verifiability of the content posted by these...
View Articlewarner music embraces the future
he folks over at ars technica report that Warner Music Group has forged an agreement with video newcomer/behemoth YouTube to host its entire music video catalog. That in itself would be ground-breaking...
View Articlethe book is in stores!
ell, okay, it's in SOME stores and my publishers tell me it should be more widely available within the next week or two. Plus, of course, it's for sale on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Ignore the...
View Articlemining historical news
oday, Google launched a news search service that lets us sift through 200 years of news reports from publications both grand in scale and local. Called News Archive Search, the service mines more than...
View Articlekeeping up with web 2.0
ust when you think you might have a handle the plethora of websites taking advantage of user-generated content and many-to-many communications, a list like this compendium of Web 2.0 services reminds...
View Articlefreebase sets us free, maybe…
anny Hillis never thinks small. One of his recent projects is a clock for the Long Now Foundation that is intended to last ten thousand years. Yesterday Hillis launched freebase, a wiki-like database...
View Articlelaws for bloggers
ver on the Aviva Directory site, you'll find a well-researched compendium, "12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know." Beneath topics like "Whether to Disclose Paid Posts," "The Legal Use of...
View Articlebloggers protected by shield laws?
o-called "shield laws" have provided protection for at least some journalists who refuse to divulge their sources, something that history teaches us is an imperative if the public is to be exposed to...
View Articlegreetings from the future
urprisingly, the book is still on a few shelves! Which is lovely, of course, but I don't update this site much these days. I've put links to two of the most evergreen chapters in the right-hand column...
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