Posts from ‘March, 2007’

Broadcasting & Cable: C-SPAN Loosens Copyright for Some Content Online. C-SPAN is loosening its copyright policy on some material for online use, saying it wants to expand citizens’ access to online video of congressional hearings, White House activities, and other government-sponsored events. Progress, but C-SPAN’s behavior has been a bit obnoxious, and the proof will […]

If this is true — a report that “France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence” — then the French lawmakers have well and fully lost all grip on reality.

David Weinberger is blogging the daylights (if that’s the correct cliche under the circumstances) out of the Freedom to Connect conference.

That’s the name of this conference on April 26 in Los Angeles.

We’ve just posted “Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement” — a report that looks at how traditional media organizations are starting to involve their audiences in the journalism process. Lisa Williams of Placeblogger and H2otown fame did the heavy lifting for this report, which will evolve as we learn more. Here’s the executive summary: As […]

Washington Post: Buffett Pessimistic About Newspapers. “Simply put, if cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the Internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed.” It’s a sobering assessment from the world’s most famous investor. Here’s his full letter to shareholders. (Note: I’m a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder, as […]

The Freedom to Connect conference starts tomorrow, and one of the speakers may sound a bit unlikely. The keynoter will be Jim Douglas, governor of Vermont. Actually, his presence at the suburban Washington meeting makes a lot of sense. As Tom Evslin (a Vermonter who’s had some influence in this regard) notes on his blog, […]

Brendan Greeley reports “Open Source Radio’s Shiny New MacArthur Grant” for developing tools at Open Source that are going to be useful in the future to a lot of people. People in public radio, people in public television, people tiptoeing toward that fantastic beast we’re beginning to call “public media.” Open Source Radio is a […]

Talking News Biz: Raising the Buffett/Loomis question again. Loomis, who received the lifetime achievement award last year from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, is writing about information disclosed in an annual report that she edited. Carmine Tiso, senior manager of communications for Fortune, told me in an e-mail, “Yes, Carol did edit […]

Robert Niles, asking rhetorically if blogs are a ‘parasitic’ medium, calls such charges poorly informed insult of many hard-working Web publishers who are doing fresh, informative and original work. And by dismissing blogs as “parasitic,” newspaper journalists make themselves blind to the opportunities that blogging, as well as independent Web publishing in general, offer to […]