The AP has released some info on its new “protection” system–not sure what exactly they are trying to protect us from. From CrunchGear: This same system, as you recall, has prevented the rise of piracy in the music and movie arenas and must be applied to the written word before the Internet fails and we [...]
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!
Trace isn’t going to mention it here, but something happened over the last couple of days that we’d be silly not to recognize. She broke a national story over at her own blog, Newscoma. The details of the story, the discussion over the issues, etc.–we’ll leave that over to her blog where it belongs. In [...]
First Amendment Rights And Bloggers
The best advice I can give you is put Terry Heaton in your feedreader. The freedom of the press clause in our beloved First Amendment is about to undergo perhaps its most serious challenges, because “the press” isn’t as neatly defined as it once was. A fascinating case in Phoenix is headed for court, and [...]
Stop Worrying, Start Doing
From Jack Lail: I think there’s good evidence that bloggers are driving traffic to sources of original reporting, mainstream or not, so let’s put away the curmudgeon whine.
Blogger Perspective Of ONA Forum
Ken Marrero of Tennessee’s News Platoon and author of Blue Collar Muse gives his perspective of last week’s Online News Association’s seminar. Because while the seminar wasn’t aimed at bloggers per se, it made great strides in welcoming and appointing bloggers to their rightful place in news and reporting – in journalism. While the seminar’s [...]