"There is an Orthodoxy to Our Thinking." Thomas B. Edsall of the Washington Post on How Blogs Can Enliven Journalism
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07/24/2004 11:20 PMthe Washington Monthly’s front page .. Political Animal (Kevin
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Studying journalism - stalking Thomas
Crampton
Studying journalism - stalking Thomas
Crampton
01/23/2004 02:18 PMIntroduced Thomas to Sergey. Joi
helping his fellow "journalist"... |
Thomas
Crampton is a fellow GLT and journalist for the International Herald
Tribune. I've been hanging out with his a lot this trip, trying to
learn more about how journalists work and think. For instance, I asked
him about how he deals with issues such as global warming where it is
so difficult to understand the first sources and we have to rely so
heavily on experts and reports which often conflict. I've also been
watching how he interviews people and teases out quotes and threads
and focuses his discussion in a way that tries to gather evidence for
a story that's developing in his head while at the same time keeping
open opportunities for new ideas. (Just like good bloggers do. ;-) )
He's now working on a story about bloggers and he's been
interviewing the bloggers at Davos. He's been asking a lot of
questions about how we view ourselves, our ethics and what blogging
means. It's very interesting on many levels because I'm interviewing
him about journalism, he's interviewing me about blogging and I'm
watching him interact with people, efficiently gathering information
to construct a story. I'm looking forward to seeing how Tom's article
turns out and how he manages to take the spaghetti of conversations
and turns it into a piece of journalism.
In the process of developing the story about blogs, he quickly
picked up the importance of Google and asked me to introduce him to
Sergey. We both asked him questions about Google and blogs and I am
happy to report that Sergey thinks that blogs may highlight some
general issues with page ranking that need to be dealt with to
continue to increase the accuracy of page rank, but that he didn't
seem to think that blogs were "noise" or that they were getting
artificially high page rank. Sergey didn't seem think think that blogs
should be treated any differently than any other type of web page.
This concurs with the opinion that Larry Page gave me the when I asked
him about this last year.
So sorry Andrew, it doesn't look like blogs will be filtered from
Google any time soon, and until the media starts to become more
permalink friendly, I think the role of blogs in providing information
and opinion on the Internet will continue to increase. The good news
is that I realize that the questions that many bloggers are asking
themselves about ethics and justice are the same questions that
editors and journalists are asking themselves.
I wonder if it is ethical for me blogging about Tom's article?
;-)
After writing that last post I got to
thinking: th ...
After writing that last post I got to
thinking: th ...
03/13/2003 10:22 AM
After writing that last post I got to thinking: that didn't
end on a very positive note, did it? What would I recommend if you
want to add some security to your Mac? That depends on what you want
to do.
For securing files on your computer I suggest using Disk Copy (from
Apple) to create an encrypted disk image upon which you then store
your files. It basically takes a chunk of your hard drive, treats it
like a separate drive and encrypts everything in that chunk.
For encrypting email the MacGPG project is coming
along quite nicely. It does, however, require some comfort with the
command line and the UI of some of the elements leave a lot to be
desired. I'd recommend installing MacGPG and then the following email
utils and then forgetting about it. There's also quite an active maili
ng list available.
To use GPG with Mail.app you'll want GPGMail.
To use GPG with Entourage you'll want EntourageGPG.
Note that in both cases, for Mail.app and Entourage, you need to have
installed and configured MacGPG first.
For securely shredding files under X... I don't know. If you've got
any suggestions for an app that works well, securely and doesn't
causes file system trauma let me know. Discuss
9:45 AM
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NYU's digital journalism class analyzes
popular bl0gs
NYU's digital journalism class analyzes
popular bl0gs
02/17/2004 07:51 PMthe consensus seems to be that choire is funny and female, and that
joi is boring and female
"Washington Post"
"Washington Post"
03/13/2003 10:25 AM"The Washington Post"
"The Washington Post"
04/19/2004 08:24 PMWashington Post Goes RSS
Washington Post Goes RSS
04/23/2004 09:20 AMA dozen (and one) RSS feeds from
Washington Post is
now available.
"The Washington Post "
"The Washington Post "
04/23/2004 08:37 PMWashington Post
Washington Post
03/20/2003 08:33 AMwar has begun .. full text .. Text .. Full
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The Washington Post gets it
The Washington Post gets it
06/09/2004 06:03 AMMuch of what civil libertarians feared about this administration turns
out to be have been true. As the Washington Post points out in today's
lead editorial, Legalizing Torture: This week, thanks again to an
independent press, we have begun to learn the deeply disturbing truth
about the legal opinions that the Pentagon and the Justice Department
seek to keep secret. According to copies leaked to several newspapers,
they lay out a shocking and immoral set of justifications for torture.
In a paper prepared last year under the direction of the Defense
Department's chief counsel, and first disclosed by the Wall Street
Journal, the president of the United States was declared empowered to
disregard U.S. and international law and order the torture of foreign
prisoners. Moreover, interrogators following the president's orders
were declared immune from punishment. Torture itself was narrowly
redefined, so that techniques that inflict pain and mental suffering
could be deemed legal. All this was done as a prelude to the
designation of 24 interrogation methods for foreign prisoners -- the
same techniques, now in use, that President Bush says are humane but
refuses to disclose. There is no justification, legal or moral, for
the judgments made by Mr. Bush's political appointees at the Justice
and Defense departments. Theirs is the logic of criminal regimes, of
dictatorships around the world that sanction torture on grounds of
"national security." For decades the U.S. government has waged
diplomatic campaigns against such outlaw governments -- from the
military juntas in Argentina and Chile to the current autocracies in
Islamic countries such as Algeria and Uzbekistan -- that claim torture
is justified when used to combat terrorism. The news that serving U.S.
officials have officially endorsed principles once advanced by Augusto
Pinochet brings shame on American democracy -- even if it is true, as
the administration maintains, that its theories have not been put into
practice. Even on paper, the administration's reasoning will provide a
ready excuse for dictators, especially those allied with the Bush
administration, to go on torturing and killing detainees. Perhaps the
president's lawyers have no interest in the global impact of their
policies -- but they should be concerned about the treatment of
American servicemen and civilians in foreign countries. Before the
Bush administration took office, the Army's interrogation procedures
-- which were unclassified -- established this simple and sensible
test: No technique should be used that, if used...
From the Washington Post
From the Washington Post
07/12/2004 01:03 AMnterview
today
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"Washington Post "
"Washington Post "
12/16/2003 08:48 PM"The Washington Post has them."
"The Washington Post has them."
05/22/2004 02:19 AM"The Washington Post says"
"The Washington Post says"
05/26/2004 07:51 PM"ABC News and The Washington Post"
"ABC News and The Washington Post"
07/27/2004 09:30 PMas the Washington Post reports
as the Washington Post reports
06/11/2004 05:02 AMtinyurl.com/2yhru
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this piece in the Washington Post
this piece in the Washington Post
04/25/2004 12:38 PMHere's the
column
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the Washington Post tells us
the Washington Post tells us
12/29/2003 08:30 AMcomprehensive retrospective ..
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"THE WASHINGTON POST SCREWS UP AGAIN"
"THE WASHINGTON POST SCREWS UP AGAIN"
04/03/2005 03:07 AM"the weekend Washington Post "
"the weekend Washington Post "
06/02/2004 08:54 AMThe Washington Post does RSS -- badly
The Washington Post does RSS -- badly
04/16/2004 03:44 AMI grew up in Washington, DC, and even after 20 years on the West
Coast, I am used to reading the Washington Post daily, even as it has
slowly transformed itself from the anti-establishment hero of
Watergate in my youth to the neoconservative Republican paper of
today. I have displayed its headlines on my personal news page for
years, and use the headlines to pick which stories and columns to read
online every day. Today the format of the headlines on my site changed
drastically. The good news? The Washington Post finally started
offering official Washington Post RSS feeds. No longer do I have to
rely on Mike Krus' excellent NewsisFree services to get Washington
Post headlines. I can go directly to the horse's mouth. The bad news?
The RSS feeds are crippled. Each one has only a few headlines -- for
example the Top News feed and the Opinions feed each currently have
only 3 headlines. So now I only get some of the stories on the front
page, not all of them. And where are the columns by my regular
columnists, Colbert King, David Ignatius, and Richard Cohen (now that
he has regained his senses)? The headlines also have the inane text
(www.washingtonpost.com) at the end of each linked headline, as though
anybody clicking on the linked headline would be taken somewhere else.
It looks like something that would have been put on the web in 1995,
not 2004. This is a really foolish way for them to put content out to
people -- it is one of those cases where halfway is worse than none.
By having only some but not all of the top headlines, they make it
less likely, not more likely, that people outside Washington will rely
on Post for news. By putting the stupid (www.washingtonpost.com) in
every headline, instead of just the first or last one, they make it
less likely that someone will want to display their headlines on their
site. My guess, from years of reading the Post and reading about the
Post, is that it is the result of political infighting inside the Post
between people afraid of giving away their content, and people who see
the value of syndicating headlines as a way of increasing influence
and getting more people to read the Post online. It certainly looks
like a typical Washington political compromise, ugly and satisfying
neither opponents...
How Many RSS Feeds Does the Washington
Post Have?
How Many RSS Feeds Does the Washington
Post Have?
08/28/2004 11:22 AMA post at MoreThanThis alerted me to the fact that the Washington Post
was doing RSS feed related to current events. The same entry lamented
that the Washington Post doesn't...
this Washington Post story
this Washington Post story
07/20/2004 09:29 AMWolftrap
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22172-2004Jul1.html
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"ABC News/Washington Post poll"
"ABC News/Washington Post poll"
06/24/2004 11:11 AMWashington Post Buys Slate
Washington Post Buys Slate
12/22/2004 01:16 AMThis had been rumored as a "done deal" for a few months already, but
it became official today that
the Washington Post was buying Slate, the online magazine
published for many years by Microsoft, but
put up
for sale earlier this year. Microsoft started Slate as an
experiment with the idea that they would be able to successfully
charge for content -- a plan that failed pretty rapidly. Meanwhile,
the Washington Post says there will be few changes, but they wanted to
do this to beef up their online content. Of course, the Post used to
run an online site called Newsbytes, which they killed off for no good
reason. You also have to wonder if the Post is going to shove Slate
behind an annoying registration wall, like they did with much of their
regular online content.
Washington Post on Creative Commons
Washington Post on Creative Commons
03/17/2005 03:47 AMGreat and particularly well researched article on Creative Commons
in the Washington Post today.
"One question only, for the Washington
Post: When will Charles Kra..."
"One question only, for the Washington
Post: When will Charles Kra..."
12/07/2003 03:41 AMRobert Samuelson, in the Washington
Post,
Robert Samuelson, in the Washington
Post,
12/31/2003 05:00 AMto criticise Bush is a hate-crime .. The Bush
Haters
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MSN Sells Slate to Washington Post
MSN Sells Slate to Washington Post
12/22/2004 01:12 AMThe Washington Post will acquire the online opinion magazine Slate,
officials at the paper announced Tuesday. This confirms industry
speculation for the past year that MSN was attempting to divest itself
from the content business. Slate would be one of three online media
entities owned by the Post.
an editorial from The Washington Post
this morning
an editorial from The Washington Post
this morning
08/01/2004 04:49 AMRead this report from Sudan .. MORE ON
DARFUR,
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Washington Post Buoyed by School
Washington Post Buoyed by School
07/30/2004 03:17 PMThe media company's results shine, especially thanks to its education
unit.
According to Leslie Walker in the
Washington Post
According to Leslie Walker in the
Washington Post
08/03/2004 07:40 AMMicrosoft Deploys Newsbot To Track Down Headlines .. MSNBC.com's
Newsbot Favors MSNBC.com .. Elizabeth Herrera Smith ..
Quote:
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ABC News/Washington Post poll
ABC News/Washington Post poll
12/24/2003 05:27 AMpretty surprising .. cruises back ..
poll
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WASHINGTON POST: Rallying Around the
Flag Online
WASHINGTON POST: Rallying Around the
Flag Online
03/14/2003 03:39 PMWashingtoon comPost .. the WaPo article .. a story today
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Washington Post Rounds Up How to Find
Hotspots
Washington Post Rounds Up How to Find
Hotspots
04/24/2004 12:57 PMThe Washington Post presents a summary of advice on finding hotspots,
signing up for service: Daniel Greenberg points out the dilemma of
Wi-Fi hotspots: if you don't know where they are, how do you find
them? He mentions our partner Jiwire along with its free downloadable
hotspot finding application (Mac, Windows, Linux), and Jim Sullivan's
excellent Wi-Fi Free Spot directory. Greenberg also runs through
options for paying (or not paying) for service at hotels, coffeeshops,
and other venues....
"WASHINGTON POST: Rallying Around the
Flag Online"
"WASHINGTON POST: Rallying Around the
Flag Online"
03/15/2003 02:39 PM"next week's WSIS in today's Washington
Post"
"next week's WSIS in today's Washington
Post"
12/06/2003 03:50 AMWashington Post reviews Motorola MPx200
Washington Post reviews Motorola MPx200
12/07/2003 02:35 AMMobileTracker Dec 7 2003 1:25AM ET
Microsoft Sells Slate to Washington Post
Microsoft Sells Slate to Washington Post
12/22/2004 01:48 AMGoodbye, Bill G. Hello, Don G.
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