Tag: Technology
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How to moderate online newspaper comments and forums while staying sane and not getting sued
Like Slashdot. Okay, so maybe I don’t read it anymore, and maybe I never read it much to begin with, but when I just logged in to see what the comments look like these days, I was offered a chance to fulfill my duty to “meta-moderate.” Nose around Slashdot a little bit, and you’ll find…
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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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Reporters Without Borders Publishes How-To For Dissident Bloggers
Reporters Without Borders has published the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. It’s available for download in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian. The handbook is designed to encourage free speech online, regardless of what your local laws might have to say about it. There are tips on maintaining your privacy, blogging anonymously, and, perhaps most…
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Humans Subvert Hierarchy
I’ve written an email to Steve Sloan’s boss looking for some insight into why he was told that he is not allowed to record any podcasts with students. When I get a reply, I’ll try to tell SJSU’s side of the story. Steve’s been writing about how Hyperlinks Subvert Hierarchy: This is where we cut…
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Term Paper Wrap Up
Well, now that I’ve emailed the presentation in and printed out the paper (still looking for a powerful stapler), here’s a slide and an excerpt from the exciting and ornery beast now offically known as: Interpersonal Communication and the Formation of Public Opinion in the Internet Age: An Analysis of the Movement and Influence of…
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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.