http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/jmfrancis Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/13/let_the_stalkin.html You can now load software in your kids' BlackBerry and/or cell phone that will be your watchdog (to prevent them from being approached by someone potentially trying to molest them) How it works -- the program will send the parents a text message when a foreign IM, text message or e-mail comes into their child's phone or PDA (anyone not on an approved phone contact list). trustteam Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:50:29 +0000 privacy danah boyd jmfrancis stalking tethering parents http://totallywired.ypulse.com/archives/2007/05/beyond_their_control_when_digi.php Female high school athlete's picture goes viral online and, upsetting the student and her family. trustteam Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:05:53 +0000 privacy identity jmfrancis ethics ownership participation blogs http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/node/83 Live gaming chat is becoming increasingly abusive and crass. trustteam Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:00:08 +0000 youth gaming gamers bullying participation jmfrancis ethics http://totallywired.ypulse.com/archives/2007/05/tweens_teens_downloading_less.php Music downloading by young people is reportedly in decline. trustteam Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:59:12 +0000 music downloading ownership jmfrancis media http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/05/30/harvard_busines.html danah boyd comments on a hypothetical privacy scenario provided by the Harvard Business Review trustteam Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:56:55 +0000 privacy danah boyd identity jmfrancis http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/09blog.html?ex=1333771200&en=52ed112ca37ec909&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "High-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:41:39 +0000 blogging blogs credibility jmfrancis media ethics blogger code of conduct http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702454.html?referrer=email "Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media" trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:40:32 +0000 blogging blogs news newspapers journalism credibility jmfrancis media ethics http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070301niles/ "Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers. trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:38:15 +0000 blogging blogs news newspapers journalism credibility jmfrancis media ethics http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/29/define-expert-please/ "I had to laugh hysterically (and groan) today when someone described a blogger as 'world-reknown expert on WordPress'. The blogger had been blogging for 4 months. I know personally that they had no PHP, WordPress, or web design experience prior to beginning blogging. Now that they have the title 'expert', there is no telling who will believe that claim." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:36:58 +0000 blogging blogs credibility jmfrancis media ethics experts http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/02/23/political_bloggers_fear_publicists_will_infiltrate_sites/?page=full "With big corporations now hiring public relations firms to pay fake bloggers to plant favorable opinions of the businesses online, many political bloggers are concerned that candidates, too, will hire people to pretend to be grass-roots citizens expressing views." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:35:33 +0000 blogging blogs journalism credibility jmfrancis media ethics politics http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2007/03/outdoor_life_editor_ousted_for_blog_comm.php "Jim Zumbo, former hunting editor of Time Inc.’s Outdoor Life, had to resign after calling assault rifles “terrorist rifles” in a blog posting on the magazine’s website. This raises the question: how subjective can writers really be on blogs?" trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:33:59 +0000 blogging blogs journalism credibility jmfrancis media ethics http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2007/02/bloggers_as_journalists_what_are_the_rul.php "Are Web loggers journalists? The question touches on not just legal arguments, such as how elastic shield laws are or should be, but also includes cultural and political overtones. If, for instance, a blogger seeks to claim the privileges of being a journalist, should we expect him to follow the same general rules -- including contacting all sides to the story and verifying facts independently?" trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:33:10 +0000 blogging blogs news newspapers journalism credibility jmfrancis media ethics http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003565969 "While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:31:22 +0000 newspapers news information youth jmfrancis media http://www.cjr.org/issues/2007/2/Kuttner.asp -Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital. trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:29:55 +0000 news newspapers jmfrancis trust credibility media information http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2007/04/us_virginia_tech_tragedy_reveals_growth.php "This may not be the main issue in the wake of the most devastating tragedy ever on a US campus, but Follow the Media remarks that the coverage of the massacre gave a clear indication of the growth of citizen journalism – and its effect on traditional media coverage." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:28:37 +0000 citizen journalism credibility media news information jmfrancis user-generated content