Posts from ‘February, 2006’

James Love: A UN/WIPO Plan to Regulate Distribution of Information on the Internet. But what the broadcasters and the webcasters really want has nothing to do with protecting copyrighted works. They want to “own” the content of what they transmit, even when they are not the creative party, and even if they can’t acquire such […]

MediaShift: CBC Offers Moderated Forum for Every Precinct. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC), which is Canada’s national public broadcaster, tried to solve these problems during the recent national election campaign, which ended with the Conservative Party triumph on January 23. CBC launched an ambitious project called Riding Talk with 308 moderated forums on its website […]

I’ll be giving a talk on Monday, Feb. 13 at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. It’s the first in a series of conversations on citizen media this winter and spring at the University. Here’s a summary for Monday’s talk: As technology collides […]

ARS Electronica, in its annual “International Competition for CyberArts,” has opened submissions for its “Digital Communities” category. This is open to political, social, and cultural projects, initiatives, groups, and scenes from all over the world utilizing digital technology to better society and assume social responsibility. It is meant to recognize the initiators and propagators of […]

I’m in Port Hadlock, Washington, visiting with folks from a newspaper group based nearby. We’re here to chat (at least during my part of the program) about citizen journalism and how it might apply to what they do. I took the photo on a bridge as I was driving here from Seattle’s airport, using my […]

Richard MacManus, Rating the Meme Trackers, says Memeorandum is still on top.

Dave Sifry (Technorati CEO): State of the Blogosphere, February 2006, Summary: Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day […]

Global Voices Online has excerpts from Arabic-language blog commentary on the Mohammed cartoon fight.

From the Mohammed Image Archive: While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten […]

Over at TechCrunch, Mike Arrington has compiled a list of real-time news aggregators. There’s plainly some amazing work going on in this area.