Plain Dealer Should Deal Openly with Blog Ethics
By now you may have heard about the implosion of Wide Open, a political blog started by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer…
Teaching Citizen Journalism Challenges Both Profession and Professor
Clyde Bentley Mark Glaser is away on vacation this week, but we’re happy to have Clyde Bentley filling in as…
Armistice Day
I wanted to riff on the free software requirement some more. To prove, with eloquent argument, that so-called uncompromising radicals…
Microsoft Demonstrates that Free Software is about Control of Our Own Future
This is a follow-up to Amanda Hickman’s post on open source free software games. Microsoft made tech news in the…
Apple and Google Agree: It’s All About Mobile, It’s All About Location
Can’t have missed the news of Android, an open source, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. Android is the flagship…
Exactly What We Dreamed Of
When I first began thinking of launching a website that published the work of citizen journalists, one of the most…
Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Threats Database
At the Citizen Media Law Project we’ve finally finished building the interface for our Legal Threats Database, and I am…
Bursting the Social Bubble and Getting Outside Your Sphere
Once again, the issue of social networks versus social bubbles has been on my mind since I attended the Online…
Moderating User Content in the Land of Journalism
When people talk about the job of a moderator, they are talking about maintaining some type of standard. During a…
Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline…
A good post on declining circulation and what that means in the context of the Web in this TechCrunch posting.…