Tuesday’s (9/16) Berkman Center lunch is, as the title suggestions, about blogging, journalism, and reality. Tune into the webcast. It’s too late to RSVP for the lunch. (One of these days, I’ll post one of these notices so there’s enough time to RSVP and attend.)
Blogging, Journalism and Reality
Persephone Miel, Berkman Fellow
Tuesday, September 16, 12:30PM
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NELINET is hosting it’s IT Conference 2008 – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island on Friday, October 10, 2008:
“This year’s IT Conference – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? will feature exciting new developments, updates and improvements to Web 2.0 tools in the library world and beyond. Attendees [...]
Some folks are suing a Cape Cod Today blogger for libel because of the words he used when discussing who’s responsible for not dredging the waterway. The number of lawsuits against bloggers, especially for libel, is increasing.
David Ardia of the Citizen Media Law Project had an excellent posting called “Understanding your legal risks when you blog or publish online”:
“Every time you publish something online, whether it’s a news article, blog post, podcast, video, or even a user comment, you open yourself up to potential legal liability. This shouldn’t come as too [...]
The Boston Globe discusses the spokesman for Somerville, Massachusetts, and his attempts to reach citizens via a community on LiveJournal in which city residents share blog posts. Despite some people finding his participation helpful, after some of his attempts to do good didn’t work quite as he hoped, he discontinued his blog.
The Pew Internet Project has new spring stats on blogging and blog readership:
“Blog reading
In our spring tracking survey we took two new measurements of blog reading, each of which captures a slightly different set of behaviors. Our first measure of blog readership uses the present-tense question, “Do you ever read someone else’s online journal or [...]
The May issue of Scientific American has an article called “Blogging–It’s good for you: the therapeutic value of blogging becomes a focus of study”:
“Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving [...]
I was going to try to make the blogger gathering at Wild Ginger in Seattle this evening, but I don’t think I should try to do that with the News Division banquet starting at 6 p. The two are far enough apart that the timing just won’t work out for me to do both, especially [...]
“On Friday, The A.P. issued a statement defending its action, saying it was going to challenge blog postings containing excerpts of A.P. articles ‘when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.’ An A.P. spokesman declined Friday to further explain the association
xkcd is awesome. Here’s another bright one from Randall about blogging.