Jan
31
From the feedreader:
- Meebo: Chat rooms are so 1998. Mathew Ingram is not that impressed with a new service that lets you embed a chat room on your website or blog. I can see the value, though, in having something that can be easily added to a site for special events. Update: As I re-read Mathew’s post, I see that he says that, too.
- Video should be like typing. Angela Grant makes a lot of sense.
- In memory of chicagocrime.org. Adrian Holovaty is shutting down Chicago Crime which makes sense seeing that EveryBlock takes his ground-breaking work to a new level.
- Blogger and ‘net cafe owner arrested in Myanmar (Burma). It continues.
- The Strange And Sordid Persecution Of Afghan Reporter Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh. Terry Glavin wants Canadians to flood the office of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and others (email addresses are provided) to encourage them to put pressure on the Afghanistan government to end this bit of madness. Mine are going this evening. This really is a cause that deserves support.
- So, copy editors, what now? Doug Fisher has some comments and lots of linkage to the discussion going on over the future of (and for) copy editing. Good stuff but a little scary.
- In Digital Age, Journalism Students Need Business, Entrepreneurial Skills. Mark Glaser takes a lengthy look at the issue of teaching journalists to be entrepreneurs and draws some interesting comments. This is one debate I’m still having with myself, with no firm conclusion in site. This post helps some.
