Harvard blog on weblogs and education

David Carraher's piece is good. Need to think... 

3:48:44 PM    

Formatting on today's post -- yech!!

Gotta figure out how to stop this mysterious shift in fonts!

3:44:47 PM    

Blogging off -- a reply

Rogers Cadenhead responded amicably to my complaint about his post on Ron Martz reporting from 3 I.D. in Iraq.  We can agree it is perception that causes you to see the genesis of Martz' remarks differently.  Anyway, like his blog.  Just added the subscription to my aggregate and link to my blogroll. 

3:34:19 PM    

RSS - gotta have it.

Presstime:  Syndication Made Simple.

RSS can build loyalty among current visitors to your site and help attract new ones. It's a customer-service initiative, too, because you're helping your audience find articles quickly. RSS shows that you're innovative, and yes, there's even potential for revenue down the road.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

3:16:54 PM    

Sunset never! PATRIOT may live forever.

Republicans Want Terrorism Law Made Permanent. The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans are working on making permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal agents after the Sept. 11 attacks. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: Politics]

3:09:15 PM    

Excellent project

Exploring a topic that should interest all.  Maybe even spend some time to make journalism a better contributor to society as a whole (instead of all the time spent on blood and gore, time spent on philosophy, political action, stuff the makes the world a better place).

E Support.

Dan Gillmor: Help Me With 'Making the News'. I'm working on a book, and invite you to be part of it.

For starters, Dan provides a four-part outline, partly fleshed with prose (all good stuff).

3:05:30 PM    

Y2K Deja Vu

Wired has a nice interview with the guy who took Richard Clarke's place as uber cyber security guy.  The "what if" questions reminds me of the same "hype" concern which surrounded Y2K, mostly about critical failures that would place life and limb at risk -- and never happened.  While the concerns for security are real, are we spending too much time worrying about hypotheticals that may never occur?

Meet the Minister of Net Defense. White House cybersecurity chief -- and lifelong hacker -- Howard Schmidt wants to protect America from weapons of mass disruption. By Douglas McGray from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

2:54:16 PM    

Check out this piece

Which breaks down the RIAA charges against one college student.  Seems these charges should not be taken at face value.

"analysis of the RIAA's complaint against that kid who operated a file-sharing service" [Daypop Top 40]

2:48:02 PM