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
Category Archives: Ethics
New Project
Bozeman, where I live, submitted its application for the Google Fiber for Communities project in the hopes of using the gigabit fiber to bring more high-tech businesses to the city. Already, the city is rife with high-tech industry, the most famous company being Right Now Technologies. We also have TechRanch and a number of Montana [...]
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Buttry on plagiarism
In light of the recent plagiarism scandals,* Steve Buttry entreats journalists to make their pre-writing processes more transparent and to be more diligent in their note taking. As many people do when they write about plagiarism, Buttry “plagiarizes” most of his post (citation needed). Of course, he’s not really plagiarizing. In fact, his whole point [...]
‘Public’ Consultation Over ACTA In Mexico Almost Required NDAs, Blogger Removed For Tweeting
Geraldine Juarez writes in to let us know of her experience attending what was billed as a “public hearing” about the ACTA treaty in Mexico (link in Spanish, Google translation here), which sounded really messed up. First, despite it being a public hearing, originally those putting on the event wanted attendees to sign nondisclosure agreements. [...]
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Who owns the e-mail interview?
Paul Bradshaw, writing for Poynter, has raised some great questions about interviews conducted by e-mail. Bradshaw was interviewed by a reporter via e-mail. At the end of their exchange, Bradshaw asked the reporter if that person would mind if Bradshaw published the e-mail exchange to his blog as raw data. The journalist minded, saying, eventually, that [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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