UNLV Protest
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Blog it (well) and they will come
Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and…
Billionaire Mark Cuban says bloggers should shun ads, sponsors
Easy for him to say. Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks and a net worth north of $2 billion, also happens to be a blogger. So when he came to speak at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, a couple hundred bloggers showed up and listened up. Cuban said a lot of provocative…
Blogging, journalism and ethics
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…
The original journalists
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…
It’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound?
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…
Students out to save the news biz
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…
Telling the truth, not just the facts
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…
Free speech in peril in Paris, Texas
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…