This Chronicle of Higher Education column explains a search committee’s choice not to hire several job candidates who blog. The committee didn’t think the material people wrote on their blogs was appropriate for the institution. They also felt once they learned more about the candidates, especially the intimate details someone shared on her weblog, they [...]
asks Jessamyn, regarding the merging of the Paul Wasserman Library at the University of Maryland
Julien Pain, Head of Internet Freedom Desk at Reporters Without Borders, is the next speaker in the Berkman Center for Internet & Society luncheon series. He’ll talk on Tuesday, July 19th, at 12:30 p.m. at the Berkman Center. RSVP no later than 2 p.m. Friday, July 15th. For more information, visit the Berkman Luncheon Series [...]
Focusing on The San Jose Mercury News’ weblog SiliconBeat, The Wall Street Journal covers the phenomenon of journalists blogging for news organizations, including the advantages of news organizations blogging and some of the concerns. It provides a great summary of many of the issues and is worth the read. "The Mercury News’s push into blogs [...]
The Harvard blog server administrators tweaked some things a few months ago that stopped the flood of comment spam. A few came through Tuesday. The spam links are part of the person’s registration data–information I cannot edit or delete. I deleted ten of the eleven messages and removed the members from the membership list. One [...]
"Thoughts on journalism, librarianship and blogging from a news librarian at the Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs." I haven’t been happy with the description of this weblog Google created for some time because it makes it seem like this weblog is somehow part of my job or officially affiliated with my employer when [...]
Whoops! My speech recognition software is posting to my weblog without my permission! And while I’m at work, too! Silly microphone! We’re supposed to be working on that database~ Addendum: So, uh, what I meant to say before my speech recognition software decided to blog without me is: This weekend is ArtBeat in Somerville, Massachusetts–a [...]
About a month ago, I said I would post notes about Blogging for News, the course about blogging for news organizations I taught at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. Overall, I thought the course went very well and can only hope that the next time I teach something like it, it goes even better. [...]
I think I’ve spent enough time healing, procrastinating, and pondering what to say that I should just go ahead and tell you about the course Blogging for News I taught at the Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference. I don’t mean for this to be a rant; and, I’m not trying to lay blame. I’m [...]
A Florida man charged with unauthorized access to a computer network for using someone else’s wifi signal faces a third-degree felony. The network’s administrator noticed the man using a laptop in an SUV outside his home for a few hours before calling police. The network’s owner chose to leave his network open. The St. Petersburg [...]