Just a quick note that I will be on a panel at Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas this morning talking about blogging ethics. This should be a great discussion, and I will recap it here later today. As the students in my Digital Storytelling class at UNLV know, we’ve spent almost as much time on…
petroglyph Originally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas These petroglyphs were etched on a wall in in a wash at the Valley of Fire in southern Nevada more than 3,000 years ago. There is something thrilling about the fact that I can take a picture of them with my Treo, and in a matter of minutes, upload it…
What a fabulous time to be alive! It’s Gutenberg all over again, but this time with movable music and video (YouTube) in the place of movable type. A Renaissance of publishing creativity is underway. And some of my favorite musicians are using the free presses to make protest music again. Unlike the 1970s, today they…
Here’s the reason for my slow posts this past couple weeks, as I and other faculty herded students from seven universities to the Online News Association conference in Toronto to present youthful and innovative visions for the future of news. First, a video of students from each of the three projects from MediaGiraffe. I’m a…
Note: I was asked to be on Nevada Public Radio’s KNPR State of Nevada program on Oct. 2 with host Dave Berns and Marvin Kitman discuss Kitman’s piece in The Nation Magazine proposing that CBS Evening News hire Keith Olbermann, the opinionated host of Countdown on MSNBC. Here’s a link to the audio from the…
A ruling today by a judge in Paris, Texas looks to me like it could have serious ramifications for the First Amendment rights of bloggers and whistleblowers. I first read about the case of The-Paris-site in this article by R. G. Ratcliffe (thanks for the onpass, Willie!): AUSTIN — Paris, Texas, population 26,490, has become…
I had a delightful conversation yesterday with Don Wasek, co-owner of Buc-ee’s, and an acknowledged novice blogger. “I am new at this,” he said in an email responding to my complaint that the Buc-ee’s blog had lifted my words. Then he asked if he could call me for some advice. We chatted on the phone…
I’ve been doing this journalism gig for a good while now, and never before have I had to take on an imaginary beaver for a very real case of plagiarism. But Buc-ee’s gone and done it now. He stole the words right off of my blog and stacked them over here. If the beaver had…
The Project for Excellence in Journalism just released a nice summary of the content on user-driven news sites Reddit, Digg and Del.icio.us, but I think the authors of the report missed the point. The report found little or no overlap between the stories that were pushed to the top of the page on the user-driven…
Thanks to my dear friend, colleague and adopted sister, Holly Hegeman, who saved and republished on her blog today the words I wrote when I was an editor at TheStreet.com to describe that awful September morning: At 8:26 a.m. I sent an Instant Message to our market columnist, Bill Meehan, asking if he’d be sending…