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C-SPAN Crews Barred from AEJMC Discussion | AEJMC Membership Forum
Another thinned-skinned journo: “panelist and New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse said she did not know that the discussion would be televised. There would be “a different tenor if the conversation would be on national television,” she said.” (tags: journalism events tv mainstream+media problems)

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Negative networking by students: real or imagined?
“School district leaders seem to believe that negative experiences with social networking are more common than students and parents report.”(tags: education generations students perceptions research statistics problems myths)

Minneapolis opened WiFi for free during collapse – Lost Remote TV Blog
“Minneapolis has city-wide WiFi, which is available on a subscription basis. But during the bridge collapse, USI Wireless (which runs the system) did something absolutely right: it opened the system for free.” (tags: emergencies communication+networks government money community business)

Social Media: Moyers on the state of journalism
“One of the best I’ve ever heard about the current state of journalism. Unfortunately, I can’t find it anywhere online, no one live-blogged the talk, and the AEJMC website offers no clue whether an audio of the speech will be posted at a later date.” (tags: events thought+leaders clueless problems audio)

Shel Holtz: The myth of the coming “attention crash”
“If you don’t care about it, it’s crap to you, even though it might be gold to me. There really is no such thing as info overload, as long as the info is useful to you. We can’t get enough information about the stuff we care about. ” (tags: overload myths psychology human+nature content+quality)

StorageSwitched!
“Amy Gahran turned me onto an interesting ‘green IT blog‘. I like green as much as the next guy, but too many IT vendors are looking at padding their wallets with a different green. ” (tags: friends mycoverage storage technology PR+marketing problems)

Link Building & Determining Link Quality
“This tutorial will focus on the selection of links by types of links. In doing this we will determine a high quality link vs. a low quality link. we are talking about building links to increase rankings” (in search results, not the pageRank metric) (tags: search connections links findability)

PJNet Today: 47 % of USA Adults Have Broadband in Home
“Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that 47 % of adult Americans have high speed broadband in their homes. Two groups lagging behind are African Americans with 40 % connected to broadband and rural homes with 31 %” (tags: statistics US info+access research trends)

Design View / Andy Rutledge – quiet structure
Why are news sites ugly, and how to make them better? A web designer compares CNN.com and USAtoday.com (tags: news+biz design usability problems problem+solving)

Micro Persuasion: Web 2.0 Maybe Consolidating Even as it Expands
“The barrier to entry online has been obliterated. Anyone can come along and start a social network or publishing platform fairly cheaply and easily and knock off a big dog. Globalization is certainly helping here.” (tags: mycoverage media+evolution business participatory+media)

Tama’s eLearning Blog » Who Owns Web2.0?
“As we use more and more of these tools in education, it’s worth pausing a moment and thinking how these web2.0 tools and platforms are licensed and who owns students’ data (and who owns your data, too) (tags: mycoverage web2.0 content-rights business media+evolution education)

Does a reporter have a duty to appear on C-SPAN? – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine
“Greenhouse says she told AEJMC that C-SPAN cameras would inhibit her from freely expressing herself but never threatened to bolt the session. Greenhouse gave a similar account to the convention’s own reporter, who wrote that AEJMC dismissed the cameras.” (tags: journalism controversy events tv newspapers)

Google Suggest reveals what we’re searching for. – By Josh Levin – Slate Magazine
“Google Toolbar makes it easy to practice armchair sociology—just conjure the first half of any question or statement, and Google fills in the back end. Want to know what questions are flummoxing mankind? Type in “is it true that.” (tags: tools search human+nature psychology society)

IT Conversations: Chris Spurgeon (podcast)
“Humanity’s cleverest attempts to answer basic questions, “where the hell am I?” and “which way should I go?”Includes such topics as the history of mapping, a biography of Mercator, the concept of map projections, and other fascinating geo themes. (tags: podcasting geography maps history human+nature science psychology culture audio podcast design)

I Forgot How to Write ! – Blog Maverick (Mark Cuban)
“I literally couldn’t take notes fast enough because as I wrote, I realized I couldn’t read my own writing. Not only could I not read my own writing, when I tried to slow down so that everything would be legible, I realized writing each letter was difficult” (tags: writing notetaking problems tools)