Category: Media
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Uncensored: Flag-Draped Coffins via Flickr
The U.S. military thought that it would be easier to keep public opinion about the war in Iraq from degenerating into a Vietnam-type situation by censoring images of dead soldiers returning to the States. During Vietnam, the flag-draped coffins of the soldiers who were actually out there dying every day for whatever we fight wars…
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Is Blogging Journalism? Another correct answer
Dana Blankenhorn asks the 64,000 dollar question. My answer? Blogging is just a format, albeit a good new useful one that delivers the potential communicative power of the Web to its users.
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[JtB] Another angle
Daniel Sato, an SJSU photojournalism student, talks about what his expectations were for the event and what he would have liked to hear more about: “How can blogging be best used in education? In public relations? In empowering freelance writers/photographers? How can future readers avoid taking pr spin and propaganda as truth?” For more on…
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ExxonMobil Fears Reality-Based Community
I came home today to a fresh issue of Mother Jones, including a look at global warming from several angles. Here’s Bill McKibben in the introduction to the report on how the energy industry (read ExxonMobil) has worked to denigrate actual science for years: The strategy turned out to be simple: Cloud the issue as…
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[JtB] 4.0: Dan Gillmor
How will we know who is credible? Dan mentioned “new tools being developed” which will help people learn what to trust.
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[JtB] 3.0: David Pescovitz
I’m posting my revised notes from last night’s Joining The Blogosphere event at San Jose State University. This is the third of four panel members. My input is in italics. David Pescovitz ran down a brief history of BoingBoing, the single most read blog around. In the 1980s, the diffusion of the PC lead to…
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[JtB] 2.0: Jude Barry
Jude Barry on the role of blogs in politics: We want to be able to talk to each other, not filtered through the channels of consolidated media.
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[JtB] 1.0: Chuck Olsen
Chuck Olsen thought digital video might put the power to make media into the hands of the masses. But there was something missing: interconnection.
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First Impressions of the Joining the Blogosphere [JtB] Event
A quick note now – much more coming later. The panel was diverse enough to touch on issues of journalism, politics, and technology – I thought it was a good (not great) introduction to what blogging can do. I would have liked someone to be plugged into a projector with their laptop, though, so at…
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Joining the Blogosphere Event In A Bit
Getting my ideas together for the Joining the Blogosphere shindig here briefly… Some questions I have going in: What does Jude Barry see as the political potential of blogs? Will every candidate start using them as a way to get their unmediated authentic voice out? Or is it enough to use the Howard Dean methodology…