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Posts under ‘Techniques’
Department of Growing a Thicker Skin
In “Blog Rage“, Jim Brady, editor of the Washington Post’s online operations, asks, “How did it feel to be mugged by the blogosphere?” Not good, he reports. The piece strikes me as unnecessarily defensive. It makes the mistake of focusing on the relatively few “muggers” instead of the larger reasons why so many people were […]
CBC's Important Experiment
MediaShift: CBC Offers Moderated Forum for Every Precinct. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC), which is Canada’s national public broadcaster, tried to solve these problems during the recent national election campaign, which ended with the Conservative Party triumph on January 23. CBC launched an ambitious project called Riding Talk with 308 moderated forums on its website […]
Signs, Sounds and Techniques of the Times
I’m coming to take for granted the accomplishments of modern technologists, but this week has brought home the progress we’ve made in communications in recent times. Twice, actually. The first example was a panel discussion on Tuesday evening in the United Kingdom, which I joined remotely via video from a hotel in Doha, Qatar. To […]
Citizen Video Takes on Bush Domestic Spying
It’s a big download — they should use BitTorrent — but it’s worth a look: “No-Spy Video” is a clever and trenchant look at President Bush’s notion that warrantless spying on American citizens is a natural right of government.
Interactive Means Sharing, Not Controlling
Jeff Jarvis: Interaction vs. reaction: But enough about you…. Interactivity is about more than reaction. It is about creation. It is not about controlled authority. It is about sharing authority.
Washington Post Fixing Comments, not Killing Them
The Washington Post online executive editor, Jim Brady, just let me know what’s what regarding the comments situation. He says the site wasn’t requiring a valid e-mail address from commenters: because we were working through Movable Type, and we had not synched up our registration system with it. But we are hoping to add comments […]
Washington Post Still Not Getting It
UPDATED In her new column, “The Firestorm Over My Column,” the Washington Post’s Ombudsman, Deborah Howell says, “So is it the relative anonymity of the Internet that emboldens e-mailers to conduct a public stoning? Is this the increasing political polarization of our country? I don’t know.” Both are true, but the problem with the Post’s […]
Journalists Having Transparency Imposed on Them
The CEO of a company called Overstock.com turns the tables on Business Week by arranging Web publication of an e-mail interview: Since you did nothing to indicate the interview was off-the-record I am treating it as on-the-record (that is the journalistic convention, I believe), and so have reprinted your letter below. I trust also that […]
The Conversations Network
The Conversations Network is “a non-profit online publisher of recordings of spoken-word events.” It’s the brainchild primarily of Doug Kaye, whose IT Conversations site has become a must-listen for people who care about technology. Now he’s gone broader — and will be looking for volunteers to help. I encourage you to take a look and […]