Harvard University’s student newspaper, The Crimson, filed a lawsuit today to try to gain access to Harvard University Police Department’s records. The students claim that since the police department’s powers come from the state, their records should be available to the public. They claim that HUPD has denied them access to the police records in [...]
I don’t like bookstores. (That’s another story for another time.) My nephew had a birthday over the weekend and I decided to get him some books. Today, I went to a children’s bookstore near my office because they had a book in the window I thought would be very appropriate for him. While I was [...]
Do you have a favorite place to buy computer equipment and cables on the Internet? I need to buy a cable to connect my Palm Pilot to an older PowerMac with no USB ports. The previous owner of the computer managed to connect his PalmPilot (same model as mine) to this computer. I figure I [...]
In the aftermath of the controversy between the BBC and the British government, The Economist examines regulation of the BBC. It has another article about the Tony Blair/David Kelly/BBC situation.
Usually WBUR and NPR do a good job of covering key news events, even if it’s just a brief mention of headlines. This morning, either I completely missed their mention of Lance Armstrong’s fifth consecutive victory–which only one other cyclist has been able to do–or they didn’t cover it. They also didn’t say how Tyler [...]
Liz Donovan, news librarian for The Miami Herald,and her blog are featured on the front page of the Herald’s Web site. Way to go, Liz!
At last night’s blog meeting, Chris and his Web facilitator Bob Doyle gave a brief presentation about Chris’ endeavor of doing radio through a blog. Yes, there are interviews on his blog with people–interesting people. I think the thing I found particularly nifty was Bob showing us all the equipment Chris uses for the interviews–and [...]
Here’s a copyright violation I learned about at last night’s blog meeting. It isn’t everyday that I hear about copyrighted computer code being used without permission.
I had an offline conversation with one of my blog readers the other day about this issue. Here’s some more info on the claim that blogs are corrupting Google’s search results.
Monday’s BusinessWeek has an article about Christopher Allbritton, the freelance journalist who solicited funds on his Web site for a trip to Iraq to blog the war. The article asks whether blogging is the future of journalism.