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August 26, 2008
Initiated and managed by three Swedes with a background in advertising and PR, Noko Jeans is our attempt to approach and get closer to North Korea, and it is our attempt to answer the question: is it possible to do what no one has ever done before? Is it possible to design, produce and import jeans from North Korea? [link]
The NoKo blog is here. It gives a peak at North Korea from a Swedish, jeans-making perspective.
July 21, 2008
When I read something like today’s news that only 10% of American newspaper editors consider foreign news to be “very essential” to their coverage, I instinctively turn to the bloggers who I know will have something enlightening, thoughtful and sometimes profound to say. And that by itself says a lot about how news is changing.
Of course, I did read that particular news in a newspaper, although I was referred there by a blog aggregator. So, I’m not saying that professional news media are unnecessary or add nothing. Not at all. But the news ecology in just a few years has become 100% mixed.
April 24, 2008
The Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project has a site that’s rich with information, written in non-legalese, about your rights and liabilities as a blogger (and general citizen media person) in the U.S. There’s lots to browse there, and it’s all quite concise and helpful.
For example, the section on whether it’s legal to record a phone call you’re having with someone else says, in part:
Federal law permits recording telephone calls and in-person conversations with the consent of at least one of the parties. See 18 U.S.C. 2511(2)(d). This is called a “one-party consent” law. Under a one-party consent law, you can record a phone call or conversation so long as you are a party to the conversation. Furthermore, if you are not a party to the conversation, a “one-party consent” law will allow you to record the conversation or phone call so long as your source consents and has full knowledge that the communication will be recorded.
In addition to federal law, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted “one-party consent” laws…
This is an excellent resource.
April 1, 2008
The Media Re:Public group at Berkmanhas announced a breakthrough technology that promises to take the “conference” out of “un-conference.”
March 16, 2008
Well, sort of. It’s started a “delete-o-meter” that lists the number of deleted comments, but not their content. This post explains why comments are deleted.
The TSA blog seems to be shaping up admirably. Some of it is pretty fluffy (e.g., a post on the canine squad), but some are pretty feisty (e.g., rebutting a media exposé) and some are just interesting (e.g., why MacBook Airs may have had trouble making it through the X-ray inspection). This blog is — surprisingly, frankly — turning into a posterchild for how government can be transparent and not even boring about it. [Tags: tsa blogging government edemocracy]
March 3, 2008
Given Wal-Mart’s size and its heavy-handed approach to so much of life, the fact that it’s letting its buyers blog freely is welcome news. (Disclosure: I consult to Edelman PR, which has Wal-Mart as a client. But all I know about this is what I read in the linked article; I assume but don’t know that Edelman was involved. And, yes, this disclosure is now longer than the post.)
February 29, 2008
Don’t miss Ethan Zuckerman’s live blogging of TED. Ethan makes live-blogging read like edited blogging.
February 25, 2008
I really dislike my live blogging. I do it partly out of laziness and partly because I have a touch of the ol’ OCD. (Laziness because doing drafts is harder than spewing.)
But since I seem to do a fair bit of live blogging, next time I may try Cover It Live, which lets you embed a live coverage tool in your blog. Looks interesting.
February 24, 2008
Howard Rheingold explains why he’s hooked on Twitter. Nice list.
To it I’d only add:
Entertaining: Some people are pretty consistently funny, insightful, two degrees left of comprehensible…
Revelatory: There’s this guy who in the real world is boring enough that people make up excuses to avoid sitting next to him at dinners. But on Twitter he is sharp-edged, pithy and delightful. It’s odd that people can reveal in 140 characters what is hidden at greater length.
Intimate: I’m keeping up with some people I otherwise wouldn’t even get the annual Christmas newsletter from. Hearing the details creates an intimacy that wasn’t there before.
February 13, 2008
Terry Heaton writes about CNN’s firing his friend, Chez Pazienza, a producer at American Morning, for what he was writing in his blog:
According to Chez, he was terminated for violating network policy by not running what he was writing through their vetting system. So he was fired not for blogging but for the content of his blog. “It’s not that I’ve been writing,” he wrote in an email. “It’s WHAT I’ve been writing.” That may be the official decision, but the truth is he was fired because he had the balls to write about the industry without telling CNN. I would add that there is no mention of his connection to the network on his site, and as a producer, it’s hard to justify the notion that he’s in any way a public figure or publicly connected with the company.
CNN may feel a little safer, but do you think the journalists there think this is a good policy?
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