Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Bond issues on November ballot Mayor Hickenlooper may have a tough time selling the fall bond issues. Denver Direct has video of two people in opposition Category: Denver November 2007 Election. 6:50:05 PM

News Consumption: Peering into the Future From The Cherry Creek News, "Like the cable and broadcast revolutions, the Internet revolution is redistributing the news audience in ways that has and will continue to benefit some news outlets, while harming others, according to a research report released today by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government...The biggest gains in audience occurred among the non-traditional news providers. The sites of search engines, service providers, aggregators, and bloggers grew faster on average than the sites of traditional news providers, whether print, broadcast, or cable. The sites of Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN, along with sites such as newsvine.com, topix.net, digg.com and reddit.com, saw large increases in traffic during the past year." 6:17:01 PM

Blogging and journalism Jay Rosen (via the LA Times): "Blowback! That's what you're in for when a great American newspaper runs a Sunday opinion piece as irretrievably lame as "Blogs: All the noise that fits" by Michael Skube (Aug. 19). Skube is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning author who teaches journalism at Elon University in North Carolina." Professor Rosen's piece mentions several instances where blogs have broken stories, some eventually picked up by traditional media outlets. Read the whole thing. Here's our post from Monday as the story was breaking. Thanks to Ed Cone (who is mentioned in the article) for the link. 6:00:34 PM

Marijuana possesion Denver's lowest law enforcement priority? From The Rocky Mountain News, "Voters will decide this fall on a ballot initiative that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana the 'lowest law enforcement priority' of Denver police, the City Council decided Monday night. Most council members oppose the measure, but a pro-marijuana group forced their hand after gathering enough signatures to put it to a vote...Mayor John Hickenlooper and most other elected officials are expected to campaign against the proposal...SAFER is sponsoring the initiative out of frustration, Tvert said. The group says that arrests for marijuana possession have risen in Denver since 2005, even though voters changed local law." Category: Denver November 2007 Election 7:05:18 AM

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