Mark Glaser’s latest piece just went up on PBS MediaShift, this time a look at Mark Cuban’s latest maverick project, Sharesleuth.com. The site’s editor Chris Carey (formerly of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) investigates sketchy business practices at companies and digs up dirt on them mainly from public sources. The business model for Sharesleuth is unusual […]
Ethics
Bloggers uncover manipulated news photos
NY Times: Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Print. [Adnan] Hajj, a Lebanese photographer based in the Middle East, may not be familiar to many newspaper readers. But thanks to the swift justice of the Internet, he has been charged, tried and convicted of improperly altering photographs he took for Reuters. The pictures […]
In-text ads: Pure evil
(Click to enlarge) Kontera Technologies — motto: Creating In-Text Relevance! — contacted me the other day about advertising possibilities on the New Media Musings blog. Which is fine. Except that what they’re offering isn’t the usual text or banner or pop-up ads. They want to embed text ads right in the middle of the editorial […]
Media bloggers Statement of Principles
Just got off a conference call as a board director of the Media Bloggers Association. For several months now, I’ve been working with our Standards team to devise a set of guidelines for members of our organization (not all bloggers, mind you). As I mentioned on the call, the MBA’s members had strong feelings on […]
On HonorTags
I’ve been meaning for some time to blog about HonorTags, the effort spearheaded by Dan Gillmor and others to create a system of trust that attaches to individuals’ blog posts. It’s an inspired idea with much merit, especially in the way it uses the mechanisms built into the Web to erect a social infrastructure built […]