Archive for the ‘Online communication’ Category
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
As the Writers' strike continues into a second week, word of an interesting solidarity action as many of the blogs that usually cover the content generated by these writers are 'going dark' for a day to express their support. This at the same time that another group of writers, working ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
The 'he said/she said' model of journalism is frequently problematic, reducing complex issues to two 'sides' and often unduly elevating a marginal or rogue opinion to parity with broad informed consensus. Sometimes, however, it can be rather helpful, and I think that this example from the BBC shows that in action. ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
A story developing before our eyes. Early this afternoon (Pacific Time) I got a mail on Lauren Weinstein's Privacy mailing list, pointing to a subpoena directed at the editors of the Phoenix New times:In a breathtaking abuse of the United States Constitution, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
I'm heading to Vancouver on Wednesday, to attend the annual conference of the AoIR. Hopefully I'll be able to take the time to catch up on my posting - as well, of course, as meeting with various colleagues and friends.
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Conn reiterates his belief that podcasting is more significant for, and faces better prospects in, minority languages.
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Ericka Menchen Trevino, who I linked to earlier in the week in relation to the UICC conference we both attended last week, has just issued a call for volunteers to assist in her research on Del.icio.us:The goal of the research is to investigate how people use del.icio.us to understand their ...
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Ericka Menchen mentioned, at her blog, the UICC conference she was due to present at on Friday. I was presenting there too, and it really was an interesting and fun day.
UICC, now in its third year, is the brainchild of Sabryna Cornish, sometime funferal contributor and a fellow student at ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
Over at An tImeall Conn's posts - audio and text - are always interesting. Recently he has been contemplating the issue of blogging solely in Irish (his existing practice) and the pros and cons of that. In one of his most recent posts he gives a mini 'state of the ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Terrorism. Organised crime. File sharing. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? That's what the music industry seems to think in Europe, where they are lobbying for the proposed data retention directive to beextended to cover all criminal offences, including piracy, and not just "serious" crimes, as the original proposal ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
As if the annotated audio idea wasn't enough, today I got pointed towards details of the BBC's programme catalogue - a 7 million line database - which is being prototyped on a Rails framework. Of interest, of course, is that the database was developed and maintained by professional librarians, so ...
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