Posts under ‘News’

And we’re off: the Citizen Journalism unconference has begun. Doc Searls is keeping his docnograghy. Live audio is here. IRC: irc.freenode.net#citmedia

ShareSleuth, the new online news venture created by Chris Carey and funded by Mark Cuban, is taking its time in launching — in part to think through some serious issues.

Techdirt pulls apart a remarkably hype-filled Business Week cover story on Digg.com, where people identify important news stories and vote on their importance. Digg is doing valuable work, but the Business Week story is indeed fairly ridiculous.

I will be mostly heads-down into several projects (incuding attending Wikimania and getting stuff together for my Monday un-conference) during the next several days. Postings will be infrequent.

Heading to Boston today for Wikimania and our Monday citizen journalism unconference. Looking forward to seeing everyone…

Who’s writing the hilarious fake blog, “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2?”

The time has come, plainly, for journalists to start getting savvy about the use of technology for secure communications.

In Vanity Fair, Michael Bronner has produced a tour-de-force, “9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes,” a dramatic reconstruction, based on newly released audio tapes, of how military and civilian authorities responded during the 2001 attacks. (Among other findings, Bronner makes clear that the military and White House dissembled like crazy in the aftermath.) He’s combined terrific […]

Nicholas Lemann, dean at Columbia University’s journalism school, takes to the pages of the New Yorker to rehash the same old bloggers-v-journalists straw man, contributing practically nothing to this long-tired conversation, though he does come up with some interesting items from journalism history. The best responses: Steven Johnson, tired of this, too, briefly offers “Five […]

The police want to stop photography in public places; we need to resist.