Tom Weber shares the news from the December 1 and 2 editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he found cushioning the carpet of his house. We frequently hear about people finding all sorts of neat things when they renovate. I think this use of newspapers for carpet padding is a clever way to recycle newspaper, […]
I heard the piece on tonight’s All Things Considered about the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow broadcasters in the top 20 markets to own a broadcast organization and a newspaper in the same market. For some organizations, this change is positive, but many people are concerned about the same parent organization controlling too much […]
I heard a piece on the BBC World Service this morning about a proposed law in Britain that would hold authors responsible if their works incite certain kinds of violence. As a writer, I got a little scared because of what might happen if the authorities held me responsible for the actions of my readers. […]
The Sydney Morning Herald had an article called Journalism’s new order: one hit wonders need not apply about a Australian journalist who was sacked because his stories were not generating enough website hits.
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Tuesday’s (11/27) Berkman Center for Internet & Society Luncheon Series is with New York Times Beijing Correspondent and Nieman Fellow Michael Anti. His talk, “When the Decentralized and Democratized Internet Meets China,” will be webcast beginning about 12:30 pm ET. Folks will gather in IRC (freenode.net, #berkman) and Second Life. It is too late to […]
When some people travel, they eat more junk food than they normally would, using vacation as an excuse to indulge in treats they wouldn’t normally consume at home. I often use USA Today as my travel treat. I don’t normally read the newspaper, but when I travel, I can often pick up a copy fairly […]
In the past, we’ve talked about laws that protect journalists from revealing secret sources and the difficulties that arise for journalists who are not protected by such laws. The US House of Representatives passed legislation (398 to 21) to allow journalists to protect their sources. The law would be a major boost to the freedom […]
The Berkman Center’s blog shares some words from Dan Gillmor about The New York Times opening up its archives again. A move I know will be popular among some of my friends and colleagues.
The Boston Globe carried a nifty article about people who are blogging about Boston television news. The article claims Boston is the seventh largest market for television news in the United States.
"That’s why Rob Mignogna says he began his site - so ‘us news geeks could talk about the Boston news scene and what is […]
There’s cool citizen journalism stuff happening at blog group on Thursday.
“Tish Grier of Assignment Zero and Lisa Williams of Placeblogger will
co-host a meeting of blog group on Thursday, August 23, at
7PM [at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA].”
Free, open to the public, really cool.