studying the media ecosystem
Iconoclast originally described those who smashed religious statues to combat idolatry but essayist Christine Rosen put a secular spin on the term in a lengthy lament entitled “The Image Culture.” In it she observes that television and new media have saturated us with images — the World Trade Center collapse, the New Orleans floods — [...]
Bloggers should have some familiarity with copyright law and some of the new currents that run in opposition to traditional copyrights. This is no legal treatise but a quick exposure to help keep you out of trouble, particularly if you’re blogging interests are commercial.
Whatiscopyright.org sets forth this definition:
“Copyright laws grant the creator the exclusive [...]
Continuing my preparation for a one-day seminar on how-to-blog, I’d like to pull together some milestone dates in the progress of blogging.
A blog hosting company called Blockstar has created a lovely timeline that goes back to 1992 when Tim Berners-Lee was collecting the bits and pieces that would become the web. The timeline [...]
Blogging enables you to speak your mind to a worldwide audience but with that power comes some legal responsibilities. You may not destroy reputations with false statements. Nor do you have an absolute right to publish even truthful material about private individuals. An attack on reputation is defamation, and it can come in two forms, [...]
No pressure. But you’ve only got a second to grab an online reader’s attention. So put a snappy headline, sans underlining, on the left side of the page. That’s a sample of the findings in a phenomenal new study, posted on the Poynter Institute website, that uses eye-tracking to discern how viewers scan a Web [...]
I started out this morning to outline some top blogging personalities, to present at a how-to course coming up in January, but I got happily detoured because I found a repository of basic tips and resources compiled by blogger and author Sheila Ann Manuel Coggins and hosted by About.com, a Website now owned by the [...]
The blogging world is full of personalities, and I’ll run down some of their names tomorrow. But once you begin blogging you become a central personality in that world. A blog is a platform for personal expression. This self-expression could take an overt form if you write about yourself, your family, your business or your [...]
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Nov | Jan » | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |