Archive for December 21st, 2005

Dan Gillmor, Citizen Journalist, New Berkman Fellow

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Dan Gillmor, blogger and citizen journalist, will join the Berkman Center as a fellow in January. Known for his book We the Media, Dan is starting a Center for Citizen Media.
Congratulations and welcome, Dan!

Hello, Robert!

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

One of my fans pointed out that I’m in Robert Scoble’s public aggregator.
An A-list blogger, Robert works at Microsoft. Like me, though, he blogs for himself, not his employer. I like the disclaimer on his blog:
"Robert Scoble works at Microsoft (title: technical evangelist). Everything here, though, is his personal opinion and is not read or [...]

Cracking Down on Comment Spam

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

The comment spammers have been at it again pretty aggressively lately, so I’ve been doing a lot of comment deleting. Sometimes, I’m not always sure what’s comment spam and what might be a legitimate comment. Usually comment spam follows a few patterns.

The number of messages. In an hour, I might get 15-200 comments. Things like [...]

Request for Book on Communism Leads to Federal Agents’ Visit

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

I’m not sure which part of this news article is creepier: that a student requesting a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s "The Little Red Book” gets a surprise visit from Homeland Security agents or that things professors ask us to read in college could haunt us in later years.
Addenda 1/1/06: A follow-up newstory claims the [...]


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