Culture & Society - Female Journalists Training on Investigative Reporting

This is interesting. More about this later.Culture & Society - Female Journalists Training on Investigative Reporting

The Power of Blog

Journalists may still rate the info low, but they are using blogs in their work. Read what they are doing with blogs. Should you be doing something like this?The Power of Blog

asap--means AP reaching out to the 'young people'

editorsweblog.org: Associated Press youth initiative provides opportunities for newspapers

See footage of the civil disobedience in Washington D. C.

t r u t h o u t - MultiMedia

Profiting from Katrina - The Center for Public Integrity

Start your investigation "engines" the Center for Public Integrity is providing the raw information for anyone to find out how money is being misspent in the Katrina relief effort. Profiting from Katrina - The Center for Public Integrity Technorati tags: bloggers citizenjournalists

IPod Maps Draw Legal Threats

This is twisted. Several sites offer free transit map downloads of images that will work on iPod, and the transit agencies threaten to sue them. I think it is fine for MTA or BART to sell umbrellas and sox and other items with their logos, but if they can't or don't produce the actual maps for download it is stupid to tell others they can't. None of the download places were charging for the maps. Aren't these public service agencies? They should be more open source, and the public could help them and would help them solve some of their problems with creativity.Wired News: IPod Maps Draw Legal Threats

CyWorld promised to USA by second quarter of 2006

As I was saying about SK Communication's Cyworld just a few postings ago, it is coming to America. The details remain sketchy about how CyWorld will play out in English and for an American or British society, but its coming. I guess I will have to drop other projects and get working on this.Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News

The Korea Times : Internet Privacy Challenged

The point about Internet privacy is well-taken, but what ought to be interesting to readers from the USA is Seong-hoon's assumptions that "everyone has a blog" and he means everyone, as in Korea they do have many more regular bloggers. Also, the way he talks about the areas of the blog and decorating the blog show how CyWorld has permeated the Korean experience. It's coming here. Are we ready? The Korea Times : Internet Privacy Challenged

Local folks take to web to fight for Marshall Fields name

keepitfields.org :: save Marshall Field's My great-grandmother had a copy of "Give the Lady What She Wants" signed by Marshall Field on one of the Field anniversaries. She had a credit card with Fields. My grandmother had a Field's card and would take the North Ave. bus from Elmhurst to North & Narragansett and then downtown to shop at Fields. My mother has a Field's card. The first credit card I got when I got my first teaching job was from Fields. My daughter wrote her first school paper on Marshall Fields and got a letter from the then Chairman, Phil Miller. My sister has a Field's card. My great-aunts all were Field's devotees. I will send my card back if they change the name, though I kind of agree with Dawn Trice that service has gone down over the years. Technorati tags: marshallfields

Are we getting smarter or dumber? How Internet is transforming our brains.

McLuhan always skirted anything that might have touched on evolution. He knew the work of Teilhard de Chardin on how our minds and our human purpose might be God's way of letting us "help" with our own evolution--how is that for intelligent design--but this fellow's ideas about what connectedness to Internet is doing to our intelligence is interesting. Are we getting smarter or dumber? | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT- food, sightseeing, commentary for Reporters

The Nitty Gritty Itinerary (featuring a more comfortable, air-conditioned coach bus) Depart Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave.: Light breakfast to go. Residents' Journal, 4859 S. Wabash Ave.: Residents' Journal -- by, for, and about public housing residents -- prints articles in Spanish, Chinese, and Russian and is distributed free to Chicago's 35,000 public housing households. Recently the paper won honors for an investigation into why out-of-town firms doing business with Chicago Housing Authority were making campaign contributions to the 17th Ward Democratic organization, the power base of Terrence Petersen, CHA CEO and former 17th Ward Alderman. We'll meet Mary Johns, Editor, and Beauty Turner, Associate Editor. Little Village High School Campus, 3126 S. Kostner Ave.: Joining the ranks of elite high schools such as Walter Payton and Northside Prep this fall are the four small schools on this brand new, $63-million campus tucked away on the Southwest Side. In May 2001 when Chicago Public Schools balked at going forward with construction of the school, needed to alleviate the region's ongoing overcrowding problems, mothers and some others from the community staged a 19-day hunger strike. Following the School Board's agreement to go forward the community became involved in the planning process. We'll meet 22nd Ward Ald. Ricardo Muñoz and others who helped organize the hunger strike and the community planning effort that led to the school's construction. Lunch at Mi Tierra Restaurant, 2528 S. Kedzie Ave.: Buffet at longstanding family-owned Mexican restaurant that is a destination in Little Village. [On the morning of the recent Mexican Independence Day Parade down 26th Street, 200 dignitaries breakfasted here.] Mark Doyle from 2nd Federal Bank and a representative of Little Village Chamber of Commerce will join us to discuss the dynamism and growth of Chicago's Latino community, particularly on the Southwest Side, as well as home mortgages for the undocumented and related business/economic development and immigration issues. Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, 4476 S. Archer Ave.: Bounded by I-55 to the north, Western Avenue to the east, 49th Street to the south, and Central Park Avenue to the west, Brighton Park's ethnic make up changed from predominantly Polish, Irish, Lithuanian and German to predominantly Latino, Asian, and African American. Today nearly 80 percent of its 45,000 residents are Latino. As a leader among community-organizing groups that are less than 15 years old, BPNC is addressing affordable housing issues such as creeping gentrification from the northeast, developing new opportunities for local youth to have a greater say in what happens in the neighborhood, and working on other issues. We'll meet Kim Drew, staff person, as well as a housing leader and a youth leader. Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Must-Cry TV--anchors human, but is that what we need from a reporter?

TomPaine.com - Must-Cry TV: "Cooper (and Smith and Rivera and so on) could have reported just as thoroughly, and just as well, without making their feelings part of the story. Their tears were, simply, unprofessional, and the fact that their bosses seem to approve is a sign of how corrupted TV news has become, how insecure it is of its own relevance. Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather were not without their flaws. But it is impossible to imagine Jennings and Brokaw, at least, so utterly abandoning the ideal of objectivity, and that is why Americans listened to them respectfully for as long as we did. But of course, Anderson Cooper isn't the anchors of not-so-long ago. He's more like Oprah, with richer parents and no weight problem. As Jonathan Klein points out, Anderson Cooper may well be the next-generation anchorperson. Assuming network news makes it that long."

The Yes Men

On my way to class on Tuesday, I recalled the great movie "The Yes Men" and found their "identity correction" website. A classic on the way to right thinking. The Yes Men Technorati tags: subversive

E-Society: My World Is Cyworld

CyWorld in the news again. A third of South Koreans use it now to integrate their lives in the digital and physical world. CyWorld is making money-- $12.5 million on sales of $110.4 million. And lots of the money comes from currency called "dotari" or acorns and is a digital money that works only in CyWorld. Social networking pervades CyWorld-- if you see a site you like, you can ask to become someone's "cyberbuddy" and if they say "yes" then you can use artifacts from their site, like a background or theme music, on your site. They call the social net building phenomena "wave-riding." Anyway, look for items about CyWorld, which is coming to America in 2006 here at currentbuzz.E-Society: My World Is Cyworld:

It's the nexus of pretty much everything she does. The graphic design student posts all of her artwork and school papers on the site. She puts up photos of her friends, her family, and her parties. She keeps a daily blog there and chats with her boyfriend via the site's instant-messaging service. Here is another story on CyWorld (SK Telecomm) and Naver Blogs, a sort of rival firm in South Korea.

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Frank Rich: "The Administration's Priority Of Image Over Substance Is Embedded Like A Cancer In The Katrina Relief Process"… | The Huffington Post

This story looked better online than it did in the paper. Frank Rich: "The Administration's Priority Of Image Over Substance Is Embedded Like A Cancer In The Katrina Relief Process"… | The Huffington Post Technorati tags: transparency

The Business of Television

Here is station that stayed on the air during the recent hurricane in New Orleans because it had anticipated and planned for it for five years. Maybe they should have been in charge of FEMA....Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television Technorati tags: newsbiz

Found on the way to looking something else up....

The Digital Divide Network echochamber documentary

We Media Fellowship Recipients--feeling not so bad now....

We Media is a conference in NYC where the focus is on all of my interests: blogs, technology for communication, digital collaborations, citizen journalism--but it is pricey (over $600 to attend.) I applied for one of the fellowships and was a bit miffed when I didn't get one (they had 140 apps for 14 places.) Well the list of who DID get in is online now and I don't feel so bad. I would have loved to go, but the interesting mix of attendees makes me feel that I was in good company. You can page through their statements and get a sense of breadth of the media revolution going on today. It is global, rippling through business, the arts and academe. It is a typical digital do, in that what you see is evidence that old boundaries and limits are now permeable to ideas and influence just as data is now digital and available anywhere you can get a signal. Check the blogs of attendees for their reports.morph: We Media Fellowship Recipients

So, wasn't this news?

Dept. of Media . Washington City Paper

Who will decide what journalists do in the future?

J Educators, take note. It is so obvious, but those of us mid-career can forget that if the workplace changes because the important aspects of the basic work are transformed by technology, the way we educate and train the young must be transformed. I am going to be turning to WAP messaging and how we can incorporate training for the mobile crowd into my class this year.Poynter Online - The Chaser

Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Finally, Google searches blogs. Try it now and search for currentbuzz....Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Welcome to Vimeo!

Welcome to Vimeo!

editorsweblog.org: Craigslist is just the beginning of newspapers' technological torment

Craigslist is just the beginning of newspapers' technological torment : Finally, someone in the business who is thinking ahead. read the part of this story about the 'e-paper' device and its economic model.

Craigslist's free advertising has already ravaged newspaper classified revenues to the tune of 75% by some estimates (see previous posting). Worse still, it doesn't appear that newspapers will ever be able to regain that income which makes up 35-40% of American paper advertising revenue.

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editorsweblog.org: How Wikipedia's rising recognition may affect newspapers

editorsweblog.org: How Wikipedia's rising recognition may affect newspapers:

The journalist, as many of you may realize, does not have time to complete such a task.

I can't believe that statement made it into print. I totally disagree. If the journalist isn't thinking of the links and integrating the links with the writing, he or she isn't writing for the Internet. A person who can imagine writing or reporting at least for an online source without doing their own links is probably someone who no one reads. Technorati tags: wikinews pomojourno

Jeff Jarvis, blogger, journalist and media critic becomes an academic

It is always unseemly to say "I told you so" to people. I will just be glad that crusty MSMers like Jeff who have gotten on the Cluetrain regarding the communication revolution which is disrupting media businesses and allowing people to create new media use patterns and habits, is coming to teaching. The more people of a certain age who realize that the future is now, and in the minds of our students, the better I feel about the future. In the academe

Los Angeles Times: Bombs away on television news

Why broadcast news often isn't. Serving two masters is difficult. And in our culture, the master that involves money will usually trump the master that represents "the true, the good, or the beautiful." So, what is a young journalist to do? Perhaps it is time to migrate to online and look to Open Source economic models?

Moonves, a businessman rather than a journalist, lives on one side of an ever-widening contradiction between journalism as a profession and as a commercial venture. His responsibility is not to the public interest but to maximize CBS' bottom line for Viacom's Wall Street investors, who expect television to earn between a 40% to 50% return on capital. (Newspaper chains are expected to make only 20% to 30%.) These rates of return impress someone on the journalistic side of the divide as excessive, especially for businesses exploiting airwaves that belong not to them but to their viewers. So the Moonves' vision leaves us with a dilemma: How will the public-- which still gets most of its news and information from broadcast -- learn what it needs to know? The reality is that it is increasingly less realistic to expect commercial broadcast outlets to effectively serve two masters: the public interest and corporate bottom line.

AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Major Korean Internet players face shakeup

CyWorld moving up on its competitors. "SK Communications quadrupled Cyworld subscribers from a paltry 3 million at the acquisition to the current 12 million based on its unique services of interconnecting personal homepages and thus prodding users to form a network with their friends or colleagues." Filed in: cyworld"Sk

My suggested read for 9/11--how we get the news these days.

This is a thoughtful piece about how the web has become the medium of choice in an emergency, but it goes on to explore how we now can "see" our enemies and the dangers of all that information if someone is trying to create a conspiracy where none exists. Brings up issues without giving pat answers. How they triggered war on the web - Sunday Times - Times Online

Regulating video games looming as political hot potato

NYTimes (registration req'd.) leads off with a story about how regulation of media content a.k.a. censorship is playing out in the world of video games. The players: Democrats looking for a "values" issue, who liken violent vid games to a public health threat versus the video gamers, a notoriously apolitical bunch who just might wake up politically if their virtual worlds are threatened. Calif. lawmakers OK control of video game sales | CNET News.com Technorati tags: gaming regulation

Software allows game use on many devices - Boston.com

Well, if they did, it will be a big thing. Software allows game use on many devices - Boston.com

Study Ties Indecency to Consolidation of Media - Los Angeles Times

Big means better? No, it means more swearing and sex talk, and the fines aren't doing anything but leading to censorship of political speech. Breaking up the big corporations and putting media content in more hands would lead to better programming. " 'One of the unintended consequences of their support of deregulation is an increase in indecency,' Rintels said."

Media Bloggers Ass'n. Doing Computer Assisted Reporting Bootcamp

A number of people have signed up but we still have open seats available for MBA's second Database 101/201 Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting (CARR) Boot Camp at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., as well as some fellowships to help cover travel and lodging expenses. The first MBA CARR Boot Camp at BlogNashville drew rave reviews from all 14 of the folks who attended. the CARR boot camp gives you the skills to find and use publicly available data to get beyond the hype and PR cant to get to the truth about virtually any major public policy issue being debated in the Blogosphere and the MSM. It's fun, it's cheap and it's a great professional investment in yourself. Forgive me for sounding like a commercial, but it's hard not to be enthusiastic about these boot camps because I've been leading them for five years and I've seen how they transform people by giving them confidence to dig into stuff they never dreamed of tackling. Enrollment is online at: http://www.heritage.org/press/carr/bootcampenroll.cfm. And feel free to call me if you have questions about any aspect of the program. Besides our usual folks from Heritage, the instructors at BlogNashville included David Kamin of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank here in D.C. For the September event, the instructors staff will include Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, which is the AFL's think tank. Many thanks to Rebecca McKinnon, Doug Petch, Ian Schwartz, Bill Hobbs and others I have undoubtedly missed for posting recently on the CARR Boot Camps. Here's what a couple of the BlogNashville graduates said of their experience at the CARR Boot Camp: "Citizen journalists will find the CARR training to be very useful. I came away with a better understanding of how to find, analyze and interpret data in order to shape a story, as well as recognize some ways it can be distorted by news media. CARR also helped me develop my investigative and computer skills, which allow me to get to the heart of a story faster. The training is immediate and practical and each person will come away having learned something useful, which can be put directly into practice. On top of that, it's free; how can you beat that?" --- Mick Wright, Fishkite.com "Nothing improves your standing with others more than actually knowing what you're talking about. The MBA CARR Boot Camp teaches you how to find that knowledge for yourself. It's one thing to know it, it's another to prove it. The MBA CARR Boot Camp shows you how to find the proof you're looking for." --- Kevin Barbieux, Nashvilleis.com "The burr that launched my blog was the escalating effort to strip religion from the public square. The whip that keeps me blogging as though my children's lives depend on it is attempts to regulate the Internet. The skills I need to worry that burr and counter that whip are curiosity, enthusiasm, perseverance, a clear writing style and analytic ability. The resources I need are a public forum and data. When I attended the MBA CARR Boot Camp in Nashville, I know I brought the first three. I flatter myself that my writing is clear and informative. The MBA CARR Boot Camp handed me the two missing pieces by showing me where the data are and how to analyze them on my personal computer without burying me under piles of technobabble. Plus the instructors are a hoot and a half! Anyone interested in public policy blogging from the most local level to the international level needs this class." --- Shelley Henderson, Kicking Over My Traces Mark Tapscott Director, Center for Media and Public Policy and the Marilyn and Fred Guardabassi Fellow The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 Mark.Tapscott@Heritage.org http://tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com "Talk is cheap. Freedom of Speech is Not."

When we step back to older tech

When disaster strikes and some of the features of modern like we take for granted are gone like the smoke, folks turn to older tech. In the face of Katrina, satellite phones look good. The grid does need electricity, and as long as we use the kind of distribution system we do, that will be a problem during storms and other catastrophes.SatPhone

A teacher a world apart.

Teachers--you thought your jobs were secure. In the world of virtuality, why do you need to be there face to face? How much money could we save in the USA if we stepped back from our committment to the school as building, and thought about universal always on education? A Tutor Half a World Away, but as Close as a Keyboard - New York Times: "Using a simulated whiteboard on their computers, connected by the Internet, and a copy of Daniela's textbook in front of her, she guides the teenager through the intricacies of nouns, adjectives and verbs."

Definition of broadband a broad question

"If you could see at a glance that you're paying $19.47 per month per megabit for Verizon's budget DSL and $38.49 for SBC's, and $300 for some verpriced dial-up's 56Kbps, it would give a much better basis for comparison. You may want to pay a premium to swig on the Starbucks of services, but if you're a Chock Full O' Nuts type, you'll be able to tell at a glance where to get the cheapest can of grounds on the market." I like the analogy. Also, most folks don't know how the speed varies for this service.

More on flashers and phonecams

This year, New York announced plans to equip its entire subway system with cellphone service, as part of an anti-terrorism effort to safeguard the public transit system with 1,000 video cameras, 3,000 motion and perimeter sensors, intelligent video and closed-circuit television. That will make it possible for subway riders be they amateur crime fighters or voyeurs to take and instantly distribute cellphone photos without leaving the underground trains."

'Newsradio' delivers extras with podcasts

Podcasting becoming a regular feature of stalwart 'Newsradio.' An interesting development. This won't be breaking stories as much as their packages. 'Newsradio' delivers extras with podcasts If you are a media maven, and haven't been getting the podcasts for On the Media you might want to try them. I am usually busy when the program runs on Sat. afternoon, but it is a great listen on the way to work on my iRiver.

Balancing cost vs. security for embedded design

Zigbee brings ease of use, but will engender security concerns.Balancing cost vs. security for embedded design

Interactive Narratives: THE VJ MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN

The use of video by roving news teams who employ a new style of news video that doesn't rely on stand-ups and in shot reporters is taking hold now in the "real world."Interactive Narratives: THE VJ MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN

Help Needed - Katrina Help Wiki

Here is a site site that coordinates help and aid for Katrina. It aggregates lots of information into one easy to navigate site using a Wiki. It is a good example, and if you need to find out if someone is okay after the disaster, it is a good place to start. There are links to places to donate time, money and other kinds of help. Help Needed - Katrina Help Wiki

The Semantic Web vs. tagging by the people.

After reading Shirky's piece on semantic web and having thought about what a good idea the semantic web is, but how would you get all the college teachers in the world to adopt a data description system and tags, I am leaning toward the view that fuzzy logic and tags will work fine. From this post, I am now wondering if we automate tagging for the semantic web and then it might work. Anyway, if you ever think about the semantic web you can add your comment. It%u2019s not Google... :: AO

Online News Squared: News Sites Surge On Katrina

Scott has got a link to the stats on how this disaster is affecting audiences for various news source sites. Online News Squared: News Sites Surge On Katrina

Net nerds hold out in NOLA

I read in Wired about a couple of web companies that did not shut down during or after the hurricane, even though they are in the heart of New Orleans. I use the directNIC - !service to secure all of my domain names, and I have some server space with them. No disruptions. Very disturbing photos of direcNIC vs. looters who appear to be just common thieves. Looks like a woman-headed gang.

Let your algorithms do the work

Blogs

This is interesting. This research shop will analyze blog comments to try and predict television show success. Can you cull comments and use program statements to get at "sentiment?" I will be tracking this story during the rollout of the new season's shows.

News breaks now without pro journalists.

The need for reporters to follow up on early reports and track down the facts is greater than ever. Sure, the locals with police scanners will get the initial happening, but it will take reporters to tease out the full story and its meanings. Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Broadband, lagging in the States, but coming to mobiles in South Korea.

Web Only News

Flickr Helps Identify Flasher

From the engineering group, the IEEE, comes this parable of modern life. Would you have taken the photo? Were you tempted to look at the photo? This is a story that is simple on the face of it, but might deserve some thought. Remember "dog poo" girl? See previous posts. Flickr Helps Identify Flasher