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Thursday, June 02, 2005



B&C Beat, graduated last week: Earning a master's degree is like buying a PC. Just as soon as you get one, the manufacturer rolls out a newer, faster model...

Miller, Schakowsky Launch Unprecedented E-Hearing on United Airlines Pension Plans - Online Hearing is Believed to Be First of Its Kind; Witnesses Invited to Provide Testimony Via Email The First Online Congressional Hearing

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Citizen journalism is the future

I would love to see journalists justify their work not by wrapping themselves in the cloak of the law, but by invoking more persuasive defenses: accuracy, for instance, and fairness


• Citizen journalists/bloggers Share news anywhere, anytime, in any medium [Buzz: Are Facts Lost Underfoot in the Rush to Blog on Scandals ; Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004 ; Commentary on the Scope, Impact and Business of Blogging ; Searching for Bloggers Near You ]
• · Demonized and hailed with equal passion, al-Jazeera has risen as an emancipative force in the world of visual media over the past decade Dauntless journalism: Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World ; Trevor Rebuts Our PR Chapter Shel Israel and Robert Scoble - Survival of the Publicists ; That was a very nice presentation. Now go set yourselves on fire or jump into Cold River: Deep Blog on Buzzworthy Books; The people who most need to read J.D. Lasica's thoughtful and provocative new book are, unfortunately, the least likely to do so. They are the members of Congress, entertainment executives and intellectual property zealots who want to control digital information rather than allow marvelous new technologies to democratize it. The rest of us -- voters and average people -- should read it for them, and then demand that our rights and needs get at least equal weight in this vital debate. Dan Gillmor Darknet: The Unbearable Darkness of Living
• · · The age of ‘natural-born cyborgs’ is almost upon us The future is a chip inside your head ... ; Online Journalists Paid Well, Survey Says
• · · · An article on the great lies of the American free press Adolph Hitler’s great lie theory ; J-School: The Priesthood Gets Funding for a New Church
• · · · · The UK Copyright Service provides copyright registration for original works by writers, musicians, artists, designers, software providers, authors, companies, organisations and individuals UK Copyright Service Provides Online Registration ; Create audioblogs, podcasts and videoblogs
• · · · · · What Drives Users To The Web? ; Power Point Presentation of note: There are over 196,000,000 web users ...