Posts from ‘July, 2006’

I’m heading to Seoul today for the OhmyNews International citizen-journalism conference, where I’ll be a speaker (and an avid listener, too). More (much) later…

Here are a few more details about the one-day gathering we’re planning for August 7 at Harvard Law School, the day after the Wikimania conference ends. I’m speaking at Wikimania, and hope to see some of you there as well as at our event. The purpose is to brainstorm some key aspects of citizen journalism, […]

The San Jose Mercury News, as part of an investigative report on researcher-industry conflicts of interest at Stanford University, has created a clever animated board game entitled “You be the researcher.” The animation shows how easy it is to get into situations that are borderline (or worse) unethical. I’d have done the animation somewhat differently […]

I was overheard at the recent Fortune magazine Brainstorm conference making this observation, which I stand behind: The next conference I go to that has a consistent WiFi signal will be my first.

The Rocketboom split-up is the talk of the blogosphere. Amanda Congdon and her ex-partner, Andrew Baron, couldn’t reconcile their differences. (Their stories vary, to put it mildly.) I’m a fan of both of these people, and hope they work things out. If not, the world won’t end. The citizen media world is growing up. Sometimes […]

Wall Street Journal: Free, Legal and Ignored. As a student at Cornell University, Angelo Petrigh had access to free online music via a legal music-downloading service his school provided. Yet the 21-year-old still turned to illegal file-sharing programs. The reason: While Cornell’s online music program, through Napster, gave him and other students free, legal downloads, […]

The postings in TPMmuckraker’s Ann Coulter Archives lead to various articles and other evidence that her rancid writings aren’t always her own words, and the site is looking for more examples that it plans to publish soon. I have many objections to her work — such as her too-frequently lack of accuracy and fairness — […]

From Jimmy Wales’ Mission Statement of the Central Campaign Wikia: This website, Campaigns Wikia, has the goal of bringing together people from diverse political perspectives who may not share much else, but who share the idea that they would rather see democratic politics be about engaging with the serious ideas of intelligent opponents, about activating […]

The Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. Much […]

Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis isn’t happy with the expression “citizen journalism,” and prefers “networked journalism.” I have some quibbles.