In the interest of disclosure, I’ll confess that I’m involved in the planning for Wikimania, which will be held in Boston this coming summer. Even if you aren’t located near Boston, you can help with the planning efforts. There are meetings every few weeks on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) at freenode.net where the international community gathers [...]
Here are two articles about blogging.
The Chicago Tribune explores concerns colleges and universities have about their students blogging.
The South China Morning Post covered one of the first blog conferences in China. Blogging in China is particularly problematic because of how the country blocks access to certain Internet sites, including certain hosted blog platforms (or at [...]
The Associated Press takes a look at radical librarians, focusing on the Radical Reference project.
(Hey! A friend of mine does that!)
There seems to be a bit of buzz about Open Source Media, an online venture merging citizen with professional journalism.
Addendum 12/5: When I first wrote about this project, it was trying to use the name Open Source Media, which Christopher Lydon’s project was using first. The new Open Source Media is now known as Pajamas [...]
The Dowbrigade dedicates a long blog post to the cause of finding or learning what happened to a friend of his, Harold Class, who is missing under suspicious circumstances. The police decided not to investigate, so Harold’s friends are trying to do what they can to find their friend.
Who knows? Maybe blogs are the new [...]
The September issue of Law Technology News’ Web Watch column focuses on Web sites related to media law.
I love the headline of this piece about the librarian action figure. It goes on to discuss a hypothetical action figure that deals with requests that are part of secret investigations in light of the, uh, possible situation at a library where government officials could investigate library users.
One of my closest friends suggests a moose [...]
Lisa Williams, whom I know through the blog group, guest blogs on Jay Rosen’s PressThink. If you’re interested in citizen journalism, whether traditional news media is dying, and/or how people get their news if it doesn’t come from mainstream media, read it. (I know some of you are because I keep hearing mutterings about it [...]
said Rubi Simon, a librarian at a Mattapan branch of the Boston Public Library, about a shooting near the library resulting in a bullet sailing through the building.
The lead photo on The Boston Globe’s City Weekly section caught my eye: What is that black material with a hole in the center? It’s a window shade [...]