Monday, March 7, 2005

Monday Information Overload Some of these are related to items that came up last week on this blog or in class, or both. At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too? A lawsuit filed in California by Apple Computer is drawing the courts into that question: Who should be considered a journalist? By Jonathan Glater. (From NYTimes.) Clean air conference at U.T. on Wednesday. Ace KNS reporter Scott Barker has this report on the "Cleaning America's Air - Progress and Challenges" conference to be held at U.T.'s University Center on Wednesday starting at 9 a.m. (From SK Bubba) More info at the Joint Institute for Energy & Environment. Blog-linked firings prompt calls for better policies. Companies -- and bloggers -- consider rules about what an employee should or should not say about the workplace in a personal weblog. (From AP via CNN) Pulitzer-winning science writer to visit UT Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer, will speak at 8 p.m. March 14 in the Shiloh Room of the University Center. Weiner's speech, "His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine," concerns the true story of an engineer who became an amateur medical researcher in an effort to find a cure for his brother's fatal disease... (From utk.edu) See also The Beak of the Finch award citation at Pulitzer.org 6:07:14 PM    comment []

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