September 18, 2003
Watching Big Brother
Steven Johnson's new column in Discovery is online: Watching the Watchers. A new Web site -- Government Information Awareness -- empowers citizens to track government officials' every move.
Musicians on the RIAA and file trading
The other day I mentioned Ken Layne's pointer to a posting by Marc Brazeau about the RIAA and music file sharing. The pointer wasn't working. Now it is.
The Nervous Parent's Guide to Online Music
Today's San Jose Merc: The Nervous Parent's Guide to Online Music.
More on posting interview transcripts
Chiming in on the topic of posting interview transcripts are both Jeff Jarvis (in an item titled, "Talk to me, talk to my blog," he calls it "inside baseball" stuff, but it's really not if we're talking about participatory journalism here) and Adrian Holovaty.
sheila lennon said:
It's not about us.
It's about the readers.
If we can publish transcripts, anybody can.
That's reality, and it's about sharing power with readers.
A reporter can select and discard the quotes he/she gets to fit the theme of the story on the budget.
But the source gets to publish what was important enough to tell the reporter. The source gets to publish what fell on the composing room floor.
I think etiquette here is a construct.
There are different angles. They're different sides of the story.
Yielding control of the information seems evolutionarily next.
Please stand by
I'm working with a programmer friend on fixing some coding bugs on my blog today, so if you get some rendering problems, that's the reason.
A chat with the guys behind Word Pirates
Sarah Lai Stirland, who's writing the new Corante blog Connected: nodes & networks, has an entertaining and instructive interview with Dan Gillmor and David Weinberger over their new site Word Pirates.
DMCA wars and a code jockey contest
I like CNET News.com's newly redesigned home page a lot. A couple of items from today:
Declan: In DMCA war, a fight over privacy.
Google seekinga few good code jockeys for its Google Code Jam 2003 contest, with a payout of up to $10,000.
OhmyNews enlists citizens as reporters
Another look at South Korea's OhmyNews, this time from the Japan Media Review, a sister publication of OJR.
Newspapers 'clueless' about women?
A commentary in Women's eNews: Newspapers Execs Clueless about What Women Want.
Thanks to Jim Romenesko for the pointer.
Tracking Isabel
Poynter has a package on Hurricane Isabel, including Jon Dube's Wireless Hurricane Tracking and a look back at the Charlotte Observer's use of a weblog to cover Hurricane Bonnie in 1998.
Studios sue DVD software maker
Wired News: Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox sued Tritton Technologies on Wednesday, accusing the company of distributing software that can crack technology used to prevent unlawful copying of DVDs.
Republicans and the Dean factor
Six letters in the New York Times today take issue with David Brooks' Tuesday column, "Republicans for Dean."
JD's Bookstore opens for business
I spent a couple of nights putting together a list of some favorite books and best-sellers. JD's Bookstore is open for business. I hope to put together a page for gadgets, DVDs and other media when I get some free time.
