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Candid Camera

I've never given that much thought to the power of the Internet in terms of manipulating video. Of course I've seen examples of manipulated 10 second video clips that make someone look like an idiot, but I have rarely thought of that person as an actual human being.

The post about this made me realize how easily that can happen to someone. While the man's response may have been a little over the top, I can completely understand his reasoning. Wasting an hour and a half on a Friday morning beats finding a YouTube clip with 100,000 views of you saying something stupid.

I do think, however, that he should have realized that whenever you go to a workshop full of techno geeks, you either need to say "don't record!" or assume that it will be recorded in some way shape or form (via Twitter, live blogging, photos or audio/video recording). 

It's how we people are. We like to show off where we've gone and what we've done. 

Blair Mishleau
blairblur.com
Freelance writer
Columbia College Chicago
Class of 2012
Interdisciplinary major between Interactive Arts & Media and Journalism
Minor: American Sign Language

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Tech and theory

drop.io swswnet.

The ‘There” for our next assignment.

Read Making It Pay Today and Trendspotting for Tomorrow

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Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party.

Let people leave comments on your website. Improve content by letting the readers help you.

Work with others. Vote the changes up and down. Come to consensus tranparently.

Wealth of Networks
Image by biverson via Flickr

2 Services for DIY Mobile Social Networks.

The timing on these is perfect. Either of these new Web 2.0 apps allows a user to create a closed (or open) social network. Why bother, you ask. Read the post to find out. In the meantime, this week we will see how to set up such a network so we can share news when I am a SXSW.

KnightBlog » SXSW Interactive: Picks for Journalists. and sitbyus.com

Many of journalism’s innovators and big-thinkers will be speaking at the conference this year, including Jeff JarvisAna Marie CoxAdrian HolovatyDavid Cohn, and Jay Rosen. We scoured the schedule and compiled a list of journalism-related presentations, to help those of you who may be attending:

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Candid Camera

Online News Association Conference ONA
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Candid Camera.

Ethical issue for journalists and anyone who writes today:

That’s why I wasted 1.5 hours of my time on Friday morning at 5am watching a video of myself. And that’s why I may have to waste 3.5 hours of my time watching my FOWA workshop at some point. I was highly candid in that FOWA workshop and asked people not to Twitter some things I said. That’s how I can provide the most value to the people in attendance (as Mark was trying to do). So that FOWA workshop video is risky in my mind.

Of course, I can simply ask people not to videotape me or ask them not to post it on the web. But that’s not a great option either. There were thirty or forty people in the room at the InSITE talk the other night. Almost 1000 people have watched the first video on YouTube and over fifty have watched every single one of them. That’s the power of the web, to reach way more people that can attend in person.

So that’s the world we have to live in now. One that assumes when you talk in public, it will be recorded and posted on the web. One that assumes that someone will look at that video and seek an opportunity to pull a clip out of context and post it. And so if you do a lot of public speaking, you simply need to speak with that in mind. It makes me feel like a politician to tell you the truth. It’s a horrible feeling but honestly I don’t know if there is any other way.

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Homework due Mar. 9th

Homework for Mar. 9th:

1. Sign up for a Twitter account. If you have a personal Twitter account, you may use it or sign up for another one to use just for our class. Twitter.com. My twitter name is drbarb. Start following me, and send me tweet so I know you are on Twitter. You get an “A” if you do this before Sun. “B” if you do this on Sun. “C” if you don’t tweet me until Mon. and you get a “0″ if you tweet me after that.

2. Shifting focus: Social media and social networking in communication and online journalism today. How we live today online. South by Southwest and what it means for online journalism.

a. What is social media (have a short definition you can recite.)

b. What is social networking (brief description of what this is.)

c. What is South by Southwest? Browse the Interactive Sessions and find at least one you would want to go to.

Lawrence Lessig spoke online on Feb. 26th hosted by the Open Video Alliance. He linked up creative thought and intellectual work to problems with copyright and our laws and commerce system today, and the gridlock in Congress. Watch and add something to this blog (comment) about the video:
Consider carefully what Lessig is saying. How do these ideas affect you personally? How will they affect your career area or jobs you seek?
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The Medium – The Hitler Meme – NYTimes.com

The Medium – The Hitler Meme – NYTimes.com.

One of the best "Downfall" Parodies

A parody where Fair Use gets trumped by DCMA

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Publishing: The Revolutionary Future – The New York Review of Books

Publishing: The Revolutionary Future – The New York Review of Books.

A new piece by Jason Epstein, the dean of American independent publishing on the future of our culture and books.

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A Look Inside the Life of News Corp. Mogul and Raging Septuagenarian Rupert Murdoch — New York Magazine

A Look Inside the Life of News Corp. Mogul and Raging Septuagenarian Rupert Murdoch — New York Magazine. This was recommended by Tina Brown, the magazine maven.

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social networking 2010

social networking 2010.

For Mar. 2nd in class

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NewsTrust.net – Blog: Help Expose Bad Journalism

NewsTrust.net – Blog: Help Expose Bad Journalism.

Students look for bad and good news during the week for Feb. 22-28. What do you think?

News Literacy Guides
To prepare for this News Hunt for Bad Journalism, we encourage you to read our Quick Review Guide, for helpful tips on how to review a story. Also, please read “Crap Detection 101″ by Howard Rheingold (Stanford University), and “Think Like a Journalist” by Michael Bugeja (Iowa State University)

News Comparisons
How do you rate the stories below? Throughout this week, we’ll compare questionable stories from these categories.

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