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Consider this an outline / annotated bibliography / white board for posting resources and organizing ideas.

What is journalism?

• Journalistic standards?
• Who hands out press-credentials?
• Objectivity?

What is a blog?

• Possible unique elements of blogs:
  • Links to competition
  • Quicker / community process for corrections
  • Depth and breadth of coverage
  • Scope of access?
  • Audience?
• Types of blogs
• Roles of blogs

Publishers vs Authors

• Applicable rights and obligations
• Safe Harbor clauses
• Who owns content?

Legal questions

• What laws exist?
• Who do they apply to?
• Legal vs social contracts

Corporate Blogging

• Can your employer regulate your speech? Your personal blog?
• Astroturfing

Business Models

• How to make money from blogs
• Death of old media

International Perspectives

• International blogs
• Global perspectives
• "Global freedom of the press"?

Trust

• How can you trust a blog?
• How to reference a blog?
• What roles can the following play:
  • Peer review?
  • Editors?
  • Editorial board?

Resources

Books

• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp - online e-book of We the Media by Dan Gillmor. About the closest thing you could find to a textbook for this seminar. See the accompanying website at http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/

Articles

• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html - Can blogging kill you? NYT story about the intense work cycle of bloggers.
• http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman - New Yorker article about the life and death of the American newspaper
• http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact - New Yorker article about Wikipedia: "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?"
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080403-online-peer-review-supplements-doesnt-replace-real-thing.html - Ars Technica piece about online peer review
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/politics/14web-seelye.html - What's a blogger? NY Times article about the blogger who wrote the piece on Obama's comments about small-town voters
• http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp - Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists
• http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/online/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003724985 - Society of Professional Journalists watching out for bloggers banned from NBA locker-room

• http://www.princeton.edu/~csdp/events/pdfs/HindmanCM.pdf - Matthew Hindman - Political Accountability and the Web’s “Missing Middle”:

"Hindman’s research also establishes a stronger pedigree in terms of elite education and advanced post- graduate degrees for the top bloggers than for the country’s leading op-ed columnists. And the top news Web sites have 30 times the traffic of the top political and public affairs Web sites."

From footnotes of State of the News Media 2008

What makes you a journalist? On the subject of Josh Wolf:

• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/09/BAGOFOI8QL1.DTL - Mediator fails to free imprisoned blogger
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/03/09/josh-wolf-journalist-no_e_42991.html - Josh Wolf: Journalist? Not A Journalist? Does It Matter?
• http://www.spj.org/joshwolf.asp - SPJ: Freeing Josh Wolf

UW

• http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/cmc/cmc.html
• http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/newmedia/newmedia.html
• http://com546.wordpress.com/readings/