Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or else | CNET News.com New federal legislation says universities must agree to provide not just deterrents but also “alternatives” to peer-to-peer piracy, such as paying monthly subscription fees to the music industry for their students, on penalty of losing all financial aid for their students. With colleges feeling the …
I have been a bad blogger lately. Somehow it’s too easy to put a link in my “to blog” folder and too difficult to actually write a post. With more than a dozen stories to blog on “someday,” and so few posts in recent months, it is time for a new personal blogging model. Add …
Thanks to Doug and Tammy for the stimulating conversation on blog types. I still haven’t settled on what I think the most useful typology breakdown might be, but I had one more thought on what functionally makes network blogs different from typical news-y or journal-y blogs: the interface. Interaction with public blogs typically takes place …
Someone over at MSU (hi Tammy) noticed a comment I posted awhile ago over at CyberSoc on the issue of blog types and asked that I expand a bit on the idea. As luck would have it, I’ve recycled this idea a number of times over the last few years for a number of work …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
(For more on this idea and why I blog, please see this category.)