studying the media ecosystem
(Technology is making it easy for people to create web publications on any topic the choose. Are there standards of behaviour new publishers should follow? Or are the times changing so much that old rules no longer apply?)
Things do seem to be up in the air these days and notion of rules may seem like an anachronism. So [...]
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by a federal grand jury. Online Journalism Review has written about his case; here is a bit more from Wikipedia; and from his own site. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I will write about his case every [...]
A disturbing report from the Washington Post suggests the citizen journalism startup Backfence.com is “struggling to reinvent its business model to stay float.”
Backfence was launched in May 2005 in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of McLean and Reston with $3 million in venture funding from SAS Investors, Omidyar Network, and others. It was one of the prominent, [...]
The National Conference for Media Reform held in Memphis was a gathering of democratic and progressive activists. A blog entry from the tech and telecom news site Ars Technica described the event this way:
“Ed Markey (D-MA) and John Dingell were there, as was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the two Democratic FCC commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps. The conference [...]
Software reduces art to science and turns judgments into point-and-click routines. Desktop publishing and tax preparation are examples of professional skills that have been boiled down and percolated into general practice.
But professionals still have tricks-of the trade that set them apart from amateurs. Author Robert W. Harris shares the secrets of typography and graphic design in a [...]
(A hobby blogger writing under the pen name “Spocko” recorded and posted audio clips of what he considered incendiary on-air remarks by talk show hosts at KSFO radio in San Francisco; his purpose was to convince the station’s advertisers to drop their ads. Lawyers for the station’s corporate owner, Disney, wrote the blogger and his Internet [...]
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by a federal grand jury. Online Journalism Review has written about his case; here is a bit more from Wikipedia; and from his own site. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I will write about his case every [...]
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