April 04, 2003
Nando Times to close
The Nando Times, which veteran online news readers will remember as one of the earliest pioneers of Web news, will shut down in about 90 days, says its owner, the McClatchy Co.
Thanks to IWantMedia for the pointer.
Internet and the Fog of War
Charles Cooper in CNET News.com: "Stumbling our way through the fog of war, one conclusion is beyond dispute: The Internet has emerged as the best antidote to the numbing stupidity that passes for daily television coverage two weeks into America's battle with Iraq."
Webcasts of last week's new media sessions
Five pretty good webcasts are now archived and available online, all of them from last week's new media week at UC Berkeley:
- Discussion and Q&A on weblogs and journalism
By yours truly and Rusty Foster of kuro5hin
- Presentation and Q&A on wireless technology
By Cory Doctorow
- Presentation on online publishing trends
By Bruce Koon, president of the Online News Association
- Presentation and Q&A on charging for online content
By Vin Crosbie, president and managing partner of Digital Deliverance
- Presentation and Q&A on putting multimedia into practice
By Rob Curley, general manager of World Online, the Internet division of the Lawrence Journal-World
YellowTimes is back up
YellowTimes, the Canadian indie journalism site shut down by its ISP last month for publishing graphic photos of war casualties, is back up, presumably with a new host.
RIAA sues college file traders
Wired News: The Recording Industry Association of America files lawsuits against four college students who are using private computer networks on college campuses to illegally trade copies of digital music files. The music group is asking for the legal limit on damages in such cases, $150,000 per each copyright infringed.
The RIAA said its member companies filed suit against two students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and against one student each at Princeton University and Michigan Technological University.
This appears to be the first lawsuit directed against students.
Iraq stories from API
New Iraq-related stories this week from American Press Institute:
Local Web sites 'network' for war coverage
By MJ Bear
From Poland, a lesson for post-war Iraq
By Peggy Simpson
From the Heartland with Charles Apple
Also, CyberJournalist.net, now a property of API, still has one of the best Iraq War Coverage roundups around.
Window problem with IE
Can any fellow blogger help me with a problem with Internet Explorer that's driving me nuts?
Three days about IE started behaving in a new way. Whenever I right-click on a link to open it in a new window, the window is the thumb of a postage stamp, which I have to resize either manually or by right clicking the bar to specify Maximize. (When I left click on a link, it opens in the same window of the same size, of course.)
This has never happened before. How do I get it to return to its previous behavior, of opening a new window either full size or the size of the original window? Lemme know, and I'll share the wisdom.
Later: I think a version of PopUp Stopper had something to do with this. In any event, Gregory A. came along and offered this fix, which worked:
1) Open a browser window to any page (make sure it's the only one open)
2) Right click on a link anywhere on the page, and Open it in a new page.
3) Resize the second window to your desired size (doesn't record being maximized, but any other size works fine for me)
4) Close the ORIGINAL, first window.
5) Close the Second window.
First U.S. journalist killed in Iraq war
Michael Kelly, editor-at-large for The Atlantic Monthly, was killed while on assignment covering the war in Iraq. He is the first American journalist to die in the conflict.Kelly, also an iconoclastic columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor of The New Republic, died Thursday night while traveling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as it moved across Iraq.
Kevin Sites and the blogging controversy
Susan Mernit, a friend and former VP with Netscape and AOL Time Warner, has written her first story in eight years. It's a subject that I find particularly interesting, since I've blogged it several times in the past couple of weeks:
Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy. CNNís decision to shut down a popular blog from war correspondent Kevin Sites has stirred a raging debate over the use of blogging as an effective journalistic tool.
The story nicely details the genesis of Kevin's blog.
For its part, CNN again comes off sounding like a scolding schoolmarm:
At CNN.com, for example, a spokesperson says that its news executives do not believe in blogs. ìCNN.com prefers to take a more structured approach to presenting the news,î the spokesperson said. ìWe do not blog. CNN.com will continue to provide photo galleries, video clips, breaking stories and interactive modules as ways to involve readers in learning about the war.î
