Posts from ‘January, 2006’

The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) News Coverage of Speech to Be Limited. When Sean Hannity, the Fox Network commentator, speaks at Southeastern University Friday night, his words won’t reach a wide audience. The news media will be allowed to watch and take pictures of the first few minutes of Hannity’s hourlong speech. After 10 minutes, all […]

Wikinews, the sister citizen journalism project of Wikipedia, has started an, “Interview of the Month,” which hosts original online chats with “people involved with current events.” This month, the interview comes via Brazil (January 11, Wednesday, at 15:00 UTC, 13:00 local time in Brasília): Ricardo Serran Lobo is a Brazilian blogger who began writing about […]

It’s here. Yay.

I want to point out Blog Safer: the anoniblog wiki, which is helping people learn how to disguise their tracks. I don’t generally approve of this, but there are circumstances — such as when telling the truth in public is dangerous to one’s life — when it’s essential. As the site says: Across the globe, […]

Michelle Malkin and a bunch of other right-wing folks are in Washington for a “blogger forum” courtesy of the Republican National Committee. She says: The morning session will feature RNC head Ken Mehlman, briefings from RNC senior staff on races, polling, and blogs, plus live-blogging of Judge Alito’s opening statement. The afternoon session will be […]

UPDATED CNET: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail. Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. Update: Daniel Solove makes a strong case that CNET has […]

TechCrunch: Toshiba to Push Blog Reviews to Mobile Shoppers. There is a report that Toshiba is developing software that will allow people to take a picture of the bar code label of many products, send it to a related service and quickly receive back information related to the product. The data the service returns? From […]

Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis: The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It? But the greater threat to the longevity of established news media might not be a future that’s already arrived; it might be their inability to do anything about it. Bureaucratic inertia, hierarchical organizational structure and a legacy mentality have […]

Bertrand Pecquerie, at the Editors Weblog, says there are four kinds of citizen journalists.

One of America’s top law firms, WilmerHale, is handling the Center for Citizen Media’s legal affairs on a pro bono basis. WilmerHale is the result of the 2004 merger of Boston-based Hale and Dorr and Washington-based Wilmer Cutler Pickering. The firm has a long record in public policy, among many other areas of expertise. Students […]