Posts from ‘April, 2006’

Jeff Jarvis is raising money to “Help Zeyad come to America.” Zeyad is the pioneering Iraqi blogger who want to attend journalism school in New York.

Mercury News: Judges take a few swipes at Apple’s arguments. A state appeals court in San Jose on Thursday appeared openly hostile to Apple Computer’s attempts to pry information from bloggers that would reveal who may have leaked confidential information on a new company product. In a lively two-hour session, a panel of 6th District […]

Alan Mutter: Leveling the Pulitzer playing field. In an age of increasingly asymmetrical journalism, it’s time to create a two-tier system for awarding Pulitzer Prizes. The system is clearly stacked in favor of the bi-coastal Big Newspaper crowd, but so what? They’re doing the best journalism. Create new awards. Don’t create Pulitzer Lite.

On the Wall Street Journal site, Jason Calacanis (co-founder of Weblogs Inc.) and Alan Meckler (CEO of Jupitermedia Inc.) debate a topic on more and more minds: “Can Bloggers Make Money?“

Ambush TV calls itself the newest and most aggressive effort yet to provide citizens with cutting-edge tools to hold Congress and other national officials accountable to the people. Forget the media. This is all about wedia – people like you and me taking control to draw the attention of elected officials and the public to […]

I’m currently at the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference in Manila, Philippines, with other prominent folks from the blogsphere, like Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Ooi and Isaac Mao. You can check out the conference blog for a rundown of presentations on “Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia in Manila to share experiences […]

Weblogs Inc. has launched Blogging Ohio, which looks to be the first of many such sites. Meanwhile, my old citizen-media project, Bayosphere, is now part of Backfence. (See disclosures page.)

The Beyond Broadcast gathering will take place on May 12-13 in Cambridge, Mass. It’s not expensive, and we’re assembling a terrific group of folks. Here is the registration page.

The University of Maryland’s J-Lab has announced its latest grantees for some very cool projects that include: “environmental news in the Great Lakes, communities in rural Alaska and inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia,” among others. We should watch them all with interest.

NY Times: TV Networks Sue to Challenge F.C.C.’s Indecency Penalties. With no allies among either the Democrats or the Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission nor any significant ones in Congress, the four broadcast networks, joined by the Hearst-Argyle Television group of stations, embarked late last week on a low-risk strategy of turning to the […]