Media
clock | August 1, 2008At TED talks:
At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?
clock | August 1, 2008Actually, no news is not exactly good news, but it makes one think about the way media shapes our thoughts and worldviews [Thanks, Bex]
clock | July 31, 2008Apparently, even journalists reporting on it learned the details (and how to properly frame it) from this episode of This American Life. Worth listening to (or reading the transcript).
clock | July 31, 2008...does not mean we should. Actually, as their lying is supposed to be their downfall, we need to make extra care not to provide any contra-examples that they can use against us in order to immunize themselves from the charge.
clock | July 31, 2008Excellent article by Jasmina Tesanovic about the final gasps of the Serbian Radicals (the right-wing nationalists and war-mongers) :
A couple of days ago, journalists from various press groups were beaten up by Radical goons; at that point the new government declared Serbian journalists to be equivalent to Serbian police performing public duties, and severely penalized the street-thugs for attacking free speech.
Imagine that in the USA?! And what about Citizen Journalists? Can I haz my blue uniform now?
clock | July 30, 2008Best time to appreciate Open Access? When you're really sick and want to learn more about what you have.:
* Complete OA still a long way off. One thing I re-learned during this was that it is incredibly frustrating to see how much of the biomedical literature is still not freely available online. Shame on Elsevier and all the others who are still hoarding this important information.
* Thanks to those providing OA. Related to the above issue, I came to appreciate was the societies and publishers have decided to go the OA route. I spent a lot of time reading material from ASM, BMC, PLoS…
clock | July 29, 2008The Flaws and Strengths of Citizen Journalism (video):
Citizen journalism is always a topic that sparks discussion and Interest, at least amongst the New Media set.
clock | July 29, 2008There was a glowing review of Andrew Keen's book in 'Vreme' (Serbian equivalent of TIME magazine) a couple of weeks ago and a friend of mine asked me if it was worth translating into Serbian language. I told him it was the worst book on the topic ever and sent him this link to explore (links within links within links, in an infinite journey through the blogosphere).
So, he asked me - which book on blogging, New Media and the struggles of the Old Media would be the best to translate. So, which one?
revere | July 29, 2008If you read the comments you know that in the last day or so Mrs. R. and I have had the excitement and anxiety of expecting a new grandchild. He is number three but the only thing that gets old about being a grand parent is the grand parent. The little guy is cute as a button, the mom (our daughter) is resting comfortably after her C-section, dad is happy and snapping pics and wondering how he is going to cope on his own with the 14 month old sib until his spouse returns home and Mrs. R. and I are relieved and pleased as punch. While we, too, cope with events we bring you this:
Product…
clock | July 28, 2008The Health Blogosphere: What It Means for Policy Debates and Journalism:
The Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a discussion about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Only in the past few years has the blogosphere become mainstream. In the health policy arena, we now see policymakers, journalists, researchers and interest groups utilizing this new media tool to deliver information to their audiences. The briefing will highlight how the traditional health policy world has embraced blogging and will feature a keynote address by U.S. Department of Health and…
clock | July 28, 2008Lee Siegel was on NPR's On The Media the other day, defending his sockpuppetry and painting all bloggers as unwashed hordes of fascists. Boo hoo.
I listened to the podcast and it was too short to be of much substance. The interviewer has no idea how big of an offense sockpuppetry is, and Siegel demonstrated that, apart from comments on his own blog, he has never really taken a look at the blogosphere as a whole. If the comments on his posts are all he knows, he really knows nothing about blogs. The quip about editors who wink about nobody reading comments is just another proof how…
clock | July 27, 2008Scoble: The blog editing system in action (also check out the discussion on FriendFeed):
Journalists who fight this system (and readers who don't check out the comments) are missing the point. This is a participatory media, not a one-way one, and, while it has a different editing system (the editing is done post publishing, not pre publishing) it's pretty clear to me that this system arrives at the truth a lot faster than anything on paper does.
I thought Bloggers vs. Journalists was Over. I guess not, as long as dinosaurs are still extant and capable of mouthing words...
Related...and…
clock | July 26, 2008I had to cancel my trip to Toronto in September so, after the SciBling meetup I have nowhere to travel all the way until ConvergeSouth in October, which will be fun (this year co-organized with BlogHer), so I hope you consider showing up if you can.
clock | July 26, 2008Serbia: New Instructions and Law Regulations on Online Privacy:
On July 21, RATEL, Serbia's Republican Agency for Telecommunications, posted a Document of Instructions for Technical Requirements for Subsystems, Devices, Hardware and Installation of Internet Networks on their official web site. This news didn't go unnoticed yesterday in Serbian blogosphere and internet community, as many bloggers expressed various opinions as well as disapproval because of the potential abuse of users' privacy.
This document of instructions defines technical requirements for authorized monitoring of some…
clock | July 26, 2008From Jay Rosen:
Save this movie as a reference when someone asks you to define a Citizen Journalism in the future....
clock | July 26, 2008There has been a lot of chatter on the interwebs (for years, but again now) about the differences between the ways the political Left and Right use the Internet and blogs:
GOP losing the new-media war:
.......The right is engaged in the business of opining while the left features sites that offer a more reportorial model.
At first glance, these divergent approaches might not seem consequential. But as the 2008 campaign progresses, it's becoming increasingly clear that the absence of any websites on the right devoted to reporting -- as opposed to just commenting on the news -- is proving…
scientificactivist | July 23, 2008For those of my readers in the UK (or anywhere else where you have access to Sky News), I'll be appearing live on Sky News at about 10:30 11:30 BST this Friday to talk about Barack Obama's visit to the UK and his support among Americans living abroad. I'm not sure if the video will be posted online afterward, but if it is, I'll post a link to it here.
pharyngula | July 22, 2008One of our regular commenters here, BrokenSoldier, has a story to tell — an all-too-common tale of our government's neglect of the men and women sent out to fight, and returning damaged to a bureaucracy that isn't willing to do the right thing and support them. If anyone out there is willing to help get this story out, here's an opportunity — it's practically written out for you. This is a broken soldier's story:
This is a request for help. Disabled veterans are being treated as if they are a burden on the government's checkbook, and the government is getting away with it, mainly because the…