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: Social Media
Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments. This was among them: My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the paper [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Social Networking, The Human Condition Also tagged Social Networking, time management, web 2.0 Comments closed
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 blogging, e-mail, interviews, journalism Comments closed
Be OK with losing a little control
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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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