If what Michael Geist reports plays out, Canadian government plans for copyright change still present problems, but they’re far better than they would have been had the government adopted recommendations from the Canadian Heritage Standing Committee. The government outlined its proposals this morning, and Geist, the leading voice in the fight against restrictive copyright regimes, [...]
Yesterday, I pointed you to Ourmedia, the J.D. Lasica and Marc Canter initiative to host the world and suggested you go take a look. Today, I want to add a new Vancouver company, NowPublic.com, an ambitious (Dan Gillmor says too ambitious, but in a good way) grassroots journalism initiative. I’ve been meaning to get to [...]
David Weinberger shares a view of the future of journalism at Joho the Blog: If forced to predict (and they did more or less force me to predict), I think we will continue to look to professional journalists for certain types of information — although the line between blogger and journalist will blur even more [...]
Hypergene Media suggests the debate over ethics in the blogosphere may be better served if we turn it upside down. Instead of looking at the blogosphere and applying to the standards of mainstream media ethics, the post suggests taking what is developing in the world of blogs and using that to make mainstream media ethics [...]
This is fascinating: you can get an overview of some of the biggest issues confronting media by strolling through the headlines and one-graf reports at I Want Media. At 10 p.m. Pacific, this is the story the site is telling: Study: Consumers Want Their Media On Demand and Online: People are exercising greater control over [...]
There’s a spate of internet acquisitions going on that is reminiscent of the heated days of the dot.com explosion (and subsequent bust), but a lot of what’s happening out there has the potential to significantly reshape media. Earlier, NYT plunked down megabucks for about.com. Now, according to Paid Content: Three of the nation’s biggest newspaper [...]
This is interesting in a potentially-bad-news-for-journalism way: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Five U.S. Navy SEALs and the wife of one of the men have sued the Associated Press and a San Diego-based reporter, claiming the news organization endangered their lives and invaded their privacy by publishing photos of the elite unit apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners. [...]
The music industry really has to figure this out: unless they stop fighting with their customers — the people who want to give them money for good product — and start working with them, they will lose. Another example of why: Earlier today, Apple’s iTunes was recoded in an attempt to block Jon Johansen’s PyMusique [...]
Stewart Pittman at Viewfinder Blues finds there are questions that are better left unasked. Why would a group of strangers loiter en masse to watch a wrecker crew wrestle an eighteen wheeler back over on its round rubber feet? Don’t these people have lives? I was still marveling at the spectator’s fascination with bent sheet [...]
Andrew Cline at Rhetorica does an in-depth job on AP’s decision to start shipping some stories with two ledes and comes to the conclusion: Fairness and accuracy, however, do not indicate that it is possible to capture reality as it is. The Associated Press, then, appears to be driving the final stake through the heart [...]
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