Posted in First Amendment, news business, true stories, university, tagged budget, budget cuts, Jim Gibbons, Nevada, petition, protest, UNLV on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
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Posted in First Amendment, bloggers, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, true stories, tagged CNN, Democratic Presidential Debate, Emily, facebook, hurricane, Katrina, Media, Motorola mobile phone, MySanAntonio.com, MySpace, Radio Shack TRS-80, Rita, UNLV, Utterz on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and text [...]
Posted in First Amendment, protest songs, tagged Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, Buffalo Springfield, Graham Nash, Jackson Brown, Keb' Mo', no nukes, nuclear power protest, Steven Stills on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
What a fabulous time to be alive!
It’s Gutenberg all over again, but this time with movable music and video (YouTube) in the place of movable type. A Renaissance of publishing creativity is underway.
And some of my favorite musicians are using the free presses to make protest music again. Unlike the 1970s, today they don’t have [...]
Posted in First Amendment, bloggers, journalism, texas media on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
A ruling today by a judge in Paris, Texas looks to me like it could have serious ramifications for the First Amendment rights of bloggers and whistleblowers.
I first read about the case of The-Paris-site in this article by R. G. Ratcliffe (thanks for the onpass, Willie!):
AUSTIN — Paris, Texas, population 26,490, has become an [...]
