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CNET: Apple abandons effort to unmask leaker. The case, filed in the superior court of Santa Clara County, drew national attention not only because it involved unreleased products–but also because it was one of the first to set the rules of how the rights of uncredentialed online journalists should be balanced against the rights of […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: Tim Lord, the managing editor of Slashdot, is happy that Slashdot is no longer the most anarchic news source on the Internet – he gives that honor to Digg.com. But Slashdot is still, joyfully, one of the net’s most open news sites – certainly more so than ohmynews or Global Voices. Slashdot […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: Craig Newmark, the founder and chief customer support person for Craigslist, is an awfully busy guy for someone who describes himself as “tremendously lazy”. His laziness around citizen’s media comes from the fact that he wants to change the world, but is working by ” help other people help other people change […]

I’m at the OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum for the next two days, speaking later this morning, and enjoying the chance to meet citizen reporters from around the world. Our hosts – Oh Yeon Ho and his team – have invited great speakers to join us and ensured that the audience is at least as […]

Reuters reports that Wu Hao, a Chinese film maker and blogger and now a U.S resident, has been freed after a months-long imprisonment in China. This case has been one of the clearest examples of the Chinese regime’s loathing of truly free speech, and his release is good news. Kudos to all those who raised […]

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 […]