Cheryl Colan, a videoblogger and adjunct faculty member at Phoenix College and Scottsdale Community College in Arizona who teaches digital storytelling, multimedia and podcasting, raised an interesting question on the Spinflow list a couple of days ago. This is the thing that bothers me about the Creative Commons Attribution license. Using it does not specifically […]
Bloggers’ choice: Free agents, or infomercials?
Scott Kirsner wrote the lead article in the San Jose Mercury News’ Perspective section today about bloggers who write about clients for a price. Good piece, though it doesn’t answer the fundamental question of whether disclosure is all that’s required to ameliorate the ethical issues involved. Some additional pointers relevant to this issue: • Influence […]
Mapping and Web 2.0 mash-ups
Last night I guest-lectured at the Programming in Journalism class taught by Bill Gannon and Dan Gillmor at the University of California, Berkeley. We tackled the latest wrinkle in mash-up culture: Web 2.0 mash-ups that take two datasets and bring them together to create something useful or interesting. I suggested that this will become an […]
A new crop of kids: Generation We
A special CNET News.com feature: A new crop of kids: Generation We. When Amy Jo Kim’s son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn’t mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube. … "He finds TV boring. So during Reading Rainbow we look up stuff on Wikipedia like side commentary. But I’m […]
‘Dreaming in Code’
This afternoon I stopped by the Pleasanton Library to hear my friend Scott Rosenberg, managing editor of Salon.com, talk about his first book, Dreaming in Code. (Here’s the website Scott set up for the book.) About 40 people turned out, with more than a few seniors and programmers in the audience. The book’s official release […]