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: The Human Condition
Cognitive Surplus and The Shallows
I am currently reading Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I hope to post a few thoughts here when I have time to set them in electrons. I also bought The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I will read immediately after Shirky’s book. I imagine that [...]
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Web 2.0 Suicide
TechCrunch carried a story this morning about a new site called the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. The site does just what it says, almost. You give the site your social networking credentials and it automatically starts deleting your friends and contacts and posts on Twitter and Facebook. Once you start the process, there’s no stopping [...]
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Blogs and Web logs
John Naughton, on the difference between writing for Web and writing for print: The other difference between writing for print and writing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘finished’ and dispatched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a [...]
Citizen journalism has a cost
Normally, I’m pretty gung-ho for social media and citizen journalism. I really do believe that journalism isn’t some high-and-mighty, elitist profession. Real people with drive and curiosity can report news and write analysis, regardless of their educations. As such, citizen reporting is a good thing because I generally think “the more information to work with, [...]
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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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