My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Monthly Archives: September 2007
An Interesting Copyright Question
A reader at Slashdot recently posted this item, which I quote in its entirety because it’s fairly short: “The Guild Wiki, an extremely popular fan-made wiki for documenting the Masssively Multiplayer game Guild Wars, was originally supported by donations, then later advertisements — supposedly just enough to break even. Just the past week, the owner [...]
Video Games as Art
Mike Musgrove at the Washington Post’s @play column recently presented one of his colleagues, a book reviewer, with an X-Box 360 and the new shooter Bioshock to see how the book man would react to the sci-fi inspired game. After playing a few levels of the game, the reviewer kept getting himself killed, stymied by [...]
Nonprofit Journalism?
A little off my normal beat, but oh well. With the increase in corporate newspaper publishing and the decrease in reporting staffs salaries and ad revenue, the Columbia Journalism Review wonders if it isn’t time for someone to apply the nonprofit model to newspapers. One non-for-profit example already out there is, of course, the Associated Press, [...]
Milestones
This week, Apple sold its millionth iPhone and Wikipedia published its two millionth article. More interesting, however, is this note from the Wikimedia Foundation’s press site (which, sadly, lacks and RSS feed). In April, Wikipedia released version 0.5 of itself on CD–and slap me for not noticing this earlier, but as I said, no RSS feed. [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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