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Live Tweeting Police Scanners
Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton is receiving praise for his Twitter coverage of the deadly shooting at Johns Hopkins Hospital last week. Fenton reported what he heard on the police scanner, attributing those tweets to the scanner and stating when reports were unconfirmed. On Press Check, Baltimore Magazine‘s blog that covers local media, senior editor […]
Are Online Dictionaries Phasing Out Their Printed Versions?
What do you do when you have a question or need to look up a word? You Google it, of course. The unsurpassable Google, along with a myriad of Internet reference sites, has been serving us well as a research tool. Some of those are better than others. Remember the now defunct Ask Jeeves, part […]
Harrisburg University’s Social Media Ban: Is It Really a Ban?
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is getting a lot of press due to its planned experiment of banning social media from campus for a week. I’m curious as to whether the ban will be at all effective. One decade into the 21st century, and connectivity is everywhere. Even McDonald’s has wi-fi as often as […]
Launching: Argo Project + Other Hyperlocal Sites
NPR and 14 of its largest member stations launched the Argo Project on September 8 in order “to strengthen the role public media play in local journalism.” Joel Sucherman, program director of Project Argo, describes the network, which consists of 12 blogs: Each blog is reported and curated by a seasoned journalist, ensuring quality coverage […]
Daddy Design Social Media Giveaway Contest
Daddy Design is a social-media design company that does really fantastic work, including WordPress website and blog design, Facebook page design, and Twitter profile design. It designed this website and several other websites for SixEstate clients. The owner of Daddy Design asked me to pass along details of a contest the company is running to […]
Should Craigslist be Held Accountable for Its Users’ Actions?
Craigslist‘s takedown of its “adult services” section over Labor Day weekend has spun the media into a frenzy. On one side, the free speech supporters cried that the company’s rights were thrown under the bus and that censorship of this sort violates the federal Communications Decency Act, which protects websites against liability for content posted […]
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