Category: Media
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Marketplace of Ideas, Part 2
I turned in my Media Law term paper on The Marketplace of Ideas, the Internet, and Campaign Finance Law yesterday, barely making sure all the pages had printed out before I slid the barely-held-together-by-a-staple behemoth under the Prof’s office door. Here’s a suitable excerpt: When Holmes wrote of the “free trade in ideas,” he transferred…
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It’s a small world, after all
The incredible shrinking world, whether it’s small or flat or whatever, continues to accelerate the pace at which we communicate. VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is a big part of that, and one of the biggest players in just-works, on your desktop VOIP software is Skype. Imagine an Instant Messenger window on your desktop that…
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Hey Iraq, mind if we write your newspapers for you? Thanks, Uncle Sam.
Today’s LA Times reports that “the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.” Oh. Okay. So we talk and talk and talk about all the democracy we’re giving the Iraqis, but in the meantime, the…
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Spicy Breakfast Links
I can’t promise this will be a new feature or anything, after all, I can only handle so much spice in my granola, but here’s a couple…wait for it…hot links. The Wall Street Journal is all over the rumored/upcoming/already-happened/to-be-announced-at-9am-pacific-time/only-a-rumor sale of Knight Ridder. Its report offers some new information: there’s a massive bonus coming to…
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Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideas
I’m working on a term paper for my Media Law class. The paper is all about attempts to regulate speech on the Internet, from the CDA and its little brothers COPA and CIPA, down to FEC Advisory Opinion 2005-16, with lots and lots of case law, starting with Holmes’ dissent in Abrams v. US in…
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A visit from the Scobleizer…
I just got out of a meeting with some of the JMC faculty and Robert Scoble. I was glad to see most of the right people there, asking all of the right questions. Here are the important takeaways, in my opinion: Context-based advertising is a real live source of revenue. Google, and others to a…
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Copyright Presentation
I’m doing a presentation tonight in my Media Law class on Copyright/Copyfight. Here’s some links to things I’ll be referencing, plus some additional stuff if you’re interested: Creative Commons Housing Maps Google Maps Mania the Public Library of Science the Pizzaright Principle A Lawrence Lessig presentation on Free Culture that I’m clearly borrowing from… Bonus…
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Podcasting – content or sidebar?
Podcasting has gone, in just over a year, from a tiny medium with a few participants to a 50-foot-tall woman that every big and small player in mass media wants to date, screw, or attack with F-14s, King Kong style. Frankly, I’m always impressed at the broad range of podcasts out there — everything from…
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Has mass media slipped the surly bonds of programming?
Terry Heaton has been laying down some serious thoughts on the future of television as unbundled bits of media, and his model scales to newspapers easily enough. One of the features of the “pull” technology deployed in everything being called Web 2.0 is the natural-but-new condition of the separation of program and schedule. We think…
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Columbia J-School launches multiclass multimedia news site
The Columbia Journalist went live yesterday with election news from New York City. The site aggregates stories covered by Columbia J-School students, including radio, photo, and text elements. Check out the “Browse by Class” menu to get an idea of how many different classes are involved. Columbia J-School Dean of Students Sreenath Sreenivasan announced the…