May 13, 2005
Google Gets Socially Mobile
Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service that allows users to identify what friends happen to be close by based on information entered into their cell phones, announced that it has been acquired by Google. With this new mobile social networking technology, will socially networked mobile news be too far off? Google may soon allow users to receive news feeds based on their physical location and forward such news on to friends who happen to be near by.
Here's some thoughts from an old NYU professor of Dodgeball's co-founders.
Posted by aludwig at 1:19 AM | Comments (0)
May 8, 2005
The New York Times to Undertake Steps to Enhance its Perceived Credibility: Accuracy and Truth in Modern Media
The New York Times released a report that identified several steps that the daily news publication should take to improve its credibility among the public, according to "Times Panel Proposes Steps to Build Credibility."
Posted by jacohen at 11:47 PM | Comments (0)
May 7, 2005
CNN providing curricula for teachers
I had no idea that CNN did this. Check this out. CNN creates a program for teachers to show in classrooms about: "Infidelity is a growing problem in the United States."
Posted by rcwalsh at 3:11 PM | Comments (1)
May 4, 2005
Framing of media events
This blog posting will look at two examples of framing, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the AIDS pandemic in Africa.
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May 3, 2005
International News Story: The Canadian Government Could be Defeated by the Opposition?
Canadian politics is experiencing a shakeup more serious than any seen within the last decade or more. National Post journalist Don Martin called the series of events "Canada's Watergate," a crisis that can have profound effects on the United States.
Posted by clare at 7:32 PM | Comments (1)
May 2, 2005
Open Media Network (OMN)
Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, launched the Open Media Network earlier this week. OMN puts publishers' content into a peer-to-peer distribution network similar to bit-torrent, which helps ease bandwidth issues, and according to their press release, the goal of the free service is "to give users worldwide access to public television and radio programming, movies, podcasts and video blogs, while fully protecting the producers' copyrights."
Posted by aludwig at 3:53 PM | Comments (0)
Political Pressure on PBS: The Republican Party Chair Seeks Change to the Alleged Liberal Bias on PBS
The "editorial independence" of PBS has come under fire by the Chairman of the Republican Party, according to "Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases," from The New York Times Online.
Posted by jacohen at 2:51 AM | Comments (0)
May 1, 2005
BBC News website expands RSS license terms to allow commercial use
The BBC announced today that it plans to expand the license terms on its numerous RSS feeds to allow other websites to reuse its content. The license currently proscribes that the feeds are only for "personal use," according to BBC editor Peter Clifton. According to Clifton's statement, "in May we'll be happy for outside websites to dip in and take our headlines." The announcement did not specify whether the new license would allow the use of entire articles, or just the headlines.
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Posted by rcwalsh at 11:30 PM | Comments (0)
"A Blog Rebellion Among Scientists and Engineers"
Blogs are invading all different types of spheres. However, what will be the effects of allowing scientists and engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (which has a history of maintaining the highest level of federal secrecery) to blog? Especially, when they blog as anonymous, and therefore, they aren't held accountable for what they say.
I found the article "At Los Alamos, Blogging Their Discontent" very interesting. It paints a great picture of the power of blogs.
Posted by kbarajas at 11:07 AM | Comments (0)
A Politician Enters the Blogosphere: Implications for the Future of Politics and the Future of News?
According to "Blogger Brown: Politician as unvarnished online scribe," which appeared on CNN Online, Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland, California, has taken up blogging. This may have significant implications for the future of politics, since who knows which other politicians may follow the mayor's lead.
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