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Criminalizing Photography
The police want to stop photography in public places; we need to resist.
The Open Road in Knowledge
The New Yorker covers, in its usual depth, Wikipedia.
Global Voices Among Winners of Journalism Award
My colleagues at Global Voices Online are among the winners of the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Here’s the press release. Congrats to all…
NewAssignment: A New Way Toward Collaborative Journalism
As he explains on his Pressthink blog today, Jay Rosen has taken his biggest step yet into the world he’s been writing about for some time now. With the help of several grants he’s starting NewAssignment.net, based on this notion: “Reporter + smart mob + editor with a fund and backers get the story the […]
Remixing Nonsense: Now It Makes Sense
So the folks at Public Knowledge put out an audio of Alaska U.S. Senator Ted Stevens’ astonishingly ignorant — and inadvertently hilarious — treatise on the Internet (and why he’s against Network Neutrality). That was helpful. Now comes Boldheaded.com with this remix of the senator’s remarks. This is citizen-media commentary at its most original, and […]
Playing the Conflict of Interest Game
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 […]
Citizen Media Highlights Apparent Plagiarism
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 — […]
Campaign Information Resource Forming
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 […]
Creative Commons Plug-In for Microsoft Office
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 […]