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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
Recent Comments
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
Tag Archives: blogging
The Man Is Gone, But Long Live The Blogosphere
Wikipedia says credit — or blame — for coining “blogosphere” goes to Brad Graham, a theater publicist and blogger in St. Louis who died this week at the age of 41. Look him up on Google and you’ll see: “Blogosphere” is his legacy. But thank goodness, Graham was joking when he first said it — [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, Ethics Also tagged e-mail, interviews, journalism, Social Media Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in New Media, The Human Condition Also tagged attention, blogs, John Naughton, Memex, writing Comments closed
NYT uses anonymous source to expose anonymous blogger but gets it wrong
The New York Times cited an anonymous source saying that David Blum was the person behind the NYTPicker blog, only to have Blum deny the allegation.
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
A self-serving idea