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bIPlog has Moved!! Please Change RSS Feed and Links - bIPlog has moved to Boalt.org, the student organization for Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's Law School. We have a number of new writers who will join bIPlog, including Aaron Burstein, Brian Carver, Will DeVries, Alex Eaton-Salners, Christen Lee, Elizabeth Miles, Aaron Perzanowski and Tara Wheatland. All are law students at Boalt, and active members at Boalt. It's exciting to have bIPlog expand with new folks writing on the topics of IP, security, privacy and digital media ....

EFF Announces New Blogs - Deep. "Note worthy news links from around the internet." Mini. "A byte-sized companion to Deep Links." In the interest of choice, I'm hoping they do a demi. You know those marketing guys say that when you offer small, medium and large, by far the biggest seller is medium. Demi-link. How 'bout it? The tagline could read: "Like two espressos after lunch, with grappa. An EFF-correcto." Anyway, I'm thrilled the EFF has brought active blogging back ...

Extension on Early CFP Registration - 7 More Days ....

Last Day to Register on the Cheap for CFP... - Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is, Ap 20-23, 2004. The major tech policy conference of the year gets more expensive if you register after today. Act now Students are $75 today! And with a program like this, you can't justify *not* going to some of this (It's at the Clairmont Hotel in Berkeley) ....

File Sharing Lawsuits At Berkeley - Well, everybody including Mark Cuban (the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who just started blogging) is talking about music and copyright somewhere, it seems. Cuban has suddenly become very active on Pho talking about the Leahy-Hatch bill proposing to make file sharing criminal. (Side Note: Mark mentioned a company he started selling powered milk as an example toward the entrepreneurial spirit he thinks the music business and RIAA should consider, instead of fighting file sharing ...

China's Digital Future Conference at the JSchool Ap 30 and May 1 - Info here. From the invite: You are invited to a conference on "China's Digital Future" at the UC Berkeley campus on Friday & Saturday, April 30 & May 1, 2004, sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism. The conference features a keynote address by Stanford University Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and presentations by many scholars, technologists, business people and journalists who are experts on China. (Ed. Note: Jonathan Zittrain will be there too.) Check the ...

PEW Asks Musicians... - What's the impact of the internet on your work. If you are a musician or songwriter, fill it out! Very important considering the "spate" of lawsuits that keep "flooding" consumers (sorry, just had to make fun of those words that those reporters overuse ). Jason Schultz does the math though, figuring that each filesharer would need to set aside $0.01483 cents per month average in order to cover settlements across all filesharers. But then Jason points ...

Copyfight Grows... - Donna Wentworth sends news that some folks will be joining her: Elizabeth Rader, Ernest Miller, Jason Schultz, Aaron Swartz, and Wendy Seltzer. Good luck guys! And now to take off for 48 hours of much needed rest ....

Spring Break... - Taking a couple of days off back Wednesday ....

"You're Outsourced" Still Available - Donald Trump is trying to trademark "You're Fired" as of 2/4/04. (I think Fuck may still be available too. Or at least Fuck the FCC.) Courtesy of the Smoking Gun. Update: doncha just love how the press deals with IP? So ABC is talking about how Trump has filed a "copyright" request with the PTO, and Left, Right and Center on NPR just said that Trump has filed a "patent" request for "You're Fired." I'll ...

Behavior Mod by Comcast, or Mickey Mouse Internet - by Farhad Manjoo/Salon (sub req or watch ad). "We use the Net as a lifeline," George says. "For anybody for whom this isn't their native country, you'd understand." But Comcast, the company that provides George's high-speed Internet service, didn't understand. Last August, the company sent him a letter telling him to quit it -- he was using the Internet too much. The firm said he was violating Comcast's "acceptable use" policy, that he was somehow ...

Dylan/Garamond Make Digital Music Together - Sean Savage says: I know, you're not quite so sure about Garamond. But you -know- you're into Bob Dylan. So give it a chance. Indulging my fantasies about moveable typefaces. Course, the Zepplin/Times NR is pretty hot, though BigG/Baskerville has really nice letters. But the Beatle's Dear Prudence/Book Antiqua has to be my fav. Now that's art ....

Matrix is Losing Member States - Due to privacy fears. John Schwartz/NYT reports that only 5 of the original 16 states are still in the program. Matrix was supposed to relate databases across many states and had funding from the Homeland Security Administration, and the purpose was to sift through records to find patterns of suspect behavior, among other things. BIPlog reported on this before, though it wasn't mentioned in any of the presentations at the Privacy conference I attended this ...

Privacy on Several Fronts - Yesterday, I attended the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society's "Securing Privacy in the Internet Age" Symposium. It's going on today but I'm not attending. Too many conferences, and I have a lot of work to do before tomorrow. So it was a great day, interesting presentations on lots of privacy issues, including but not limited to leaky technologies like RFID, Sensor Networks (Pam Samuelson's new research area), as well as policies on ...

DRM? Chris Willis Nails It - On screen now at Media Morphosis Day 3: "Insure content security with baked in Digital Rights Management." Chris: What's the point? Michael Silberman: I think DRM could be used to keep people from stealing, and get them to pay for content. And it could be used to facilitate the making of content. No. Not. DRM for news? Okay, your content has high value for maybe, 24 hours? You want to lock it up? There is ...

Students will actually read it! High school newspapers go Web-only - By Geneva Overholser: Like their professional counterparts, high school news organizations are moving online and fretting over budgets, but they’re also fighting censorship. This according to advisors from Southern California high schools who brought their students (some 300 strong) to the USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s high school journalism gathering Friday for a day of panels and journalism shop talk. Many of the 30 advisors who gathered this morning to commiserate and trade solutions said they were ditching the print edition to go online only. One advisor said she was seeking “more of a social engagement site. You can actually get them to read things if you go online.” ...

Building the data desk: lessons from the L.A. Times - By Eric Ulken: In early 2007, when the Los Angeles Times launched its Homicide Report blog — an effort to chronicle every homicide in Los Angeles County — it was clear that there were important geographic and demographic dimensions to the information that a blog format wouldn't fully capture. What we needed was a ChicagoCrime.org-style map that would let users focus on areas of interest to them, with filters that would enable them to "play" with the data and explore trends and patterns for themselves. Problem was, the web staff (of which I was a part) lacked the tools and the expertise to build such a thing, so the blog launched without a map. (Sound familar?) It took several months to secure the tech resources and a couple more months to create wireframes and spec out requirements for what would become the Homicide Map, with the help of a couple of talented developers and a project manager on part-time loan from the website's IT department. We were fortunate, of course: We actual...

Brian Lamb: C-SPAN not immune to the digital threat - By David Westphal: C-SPAN would seem to have as secure a future as any news operation could have. Thirty years after Brian Lamb began shopping around his off-the-wall idea for a public affairs network funded by the cable industry, it's hard to imagine a media landscape without C-SPAN's rich offerings on TV, radio and the Web. But Lamb says C-SPAN will be buffeted by the digital revolution just like everyone else. Despite successful work in recent months on a new long-term plan that helps ensure the network's future, Lamb told an audience at the University of Southern California that C-SPAN's core business could be affected. "I see the handwriting on the wall at our network," Lamb said. "You gotta' be a little more agile … a little more nimble, to survive." Lamb delivered the James L. Loper Lecture in Public Service Broadcasting on Thursday at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. ...

Ad networks can help online news start-ups take first step toward profitability - By Robert Niles: Let's continue with the thought that David raised Monday, and talk about first steps toward making a for-profit news website start-up work. Today, I'll be writing about ad-supported news websites, as opposed to subscription-based publications. (We've written about those on OJR before, but they are far rarer to find than ad-supported sites.) Since we're talking start-ups, too, we'll operate under the assumption that you, the publisher, do not have a dedicated ad sales team working for you, pitching your site to potential advertisers. Let's also stipulate that profitability for a start-up demands publishers to minimize the expense side of the ledger. Initial ad revenue for a news start-up - no matter how well designed - likely will be meager, so going it alone (or with a small partnership) and spending little on development and reporting will help keep expenses manageable. ...

The case for independent news sites as profit-makers: 'I think there's a great business model here' - By David Westphal: After my recent stories on the state of independent news sites, several folks called or e-mailed to say I was barking up the wrong tree by focusing on nonprofits like MinnPost and the Voice of San Diego. The real future, they said, is with sites that are in it to make money. They may be right. "I think there's a great business model here," said Merrill Brown, a media management and strategy consultant. "If you can get a quality product out there, local advertisers are looking for alternatives… I think there's plenty of evidence of that." So far, of course, there's little evidence that profitability will reliably follow. Even many operations that talk about being in the black do so with asterisks – the key players aren't drawing a salary, or the site is subsidized with other lines of business, for example. Others argue nonprofits will be the winning models for robust public-service news sites. Only today, a seemingly promising startup in Seattle, Crosscut, annou...

Training key to helping journalists become comfortable with Web 2.0 - By Mike Noe: When Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1908, American Indians were still referred to as "wild" by famed Rocky Mountain News journalist Damon Runyon. Delegates were entertained by snow hauled in from the nearby mountains. And the Rocky chronicled the convention in a broadsheet format. It would be three more decades before Colorado's first newspaper would take a chance on publishing in the tabloid format that its readers still embrace today. To say the least, 2008 was a far cry from that 1908 DNC. A staff of 150 field journalists covered this year's convention 24 hours a day for five straight days, posting vignettes, photos and video to RockyMountainNews.com. So much content poured into the site at once that we used two scrolling windows on the home page to channel the flow of information. A nurse at a local hospital told me she was glued to the site throughout the week, checking back whenever she could to see the latest updates on protests, ...

Add original functionality to original content to build Web traffic - By Robert Niles: OJR long has enjoyed a strong following among newspaper website managers and employees. So don't think that we've forgotten about you when we write about start-ups and independent online news efforts. I think there's much that newspaper-dot-coms can learn from the "little guys," ideas and innovations that they can bring back to their papers in an effort to keep them competitive in their news marketplaces. But let's not forget, either, some of the advantages that newspapers bring to these markets. Over the next couple weeks, we'll be bringing you blog posts from newspaper website editors whom I've asked to share some of their recent successes. If you a newspaper website editor with a story to share, too, please, feel free. You can post to the site directly, or e-mail me and tell me your story so that I can post it to the site. Before we get to those stories though a challenge, if you will. Newspapers often focus on their newsrooms, and even, sometimes, their sale...

The journalism 'priesthood' destroyed? - By Geneva Overholser: It was Nieman reunion time last weekend, and the honored veterans of journalism were gathered in the very shadow of Harvard. Our panel was called: “Voices from the New World of Journalism.” “I think we’re fooling ourselves a little bit in how much change is needed,” Michael Skoler of American Public Media said. The needed transformation lies well beyond the use of new tools. “People expect to share information.” But that goes against our ethos – getting the scoop, keeping it exclusive. Nor does allowing people to participate in – not just respond to -- our work come naturally. “Deep in our souls we feel like that’s dumbing down our journalism. I would argue that it’s smartening it up.” ...

Online publishers need new heroes in the battle for community relevance - By Robert Niles: Picking up from my piece on Wednesday . The Obama campaign did not build its social network in isolation. In many communities, it built upon an existing "netroots" of progressives that had developed over the past several years. That network, in turn, developed in frustration with both the Bush administration, as well as the new media coverage (or lack thereof) of that administration and its Congressional allies. Markos Moulitsas, a j-school graduate with a law degree and an Army stint behind him, bootstrapped what might be the most influential of all progressive netroots websites, DailyKos. His new book, "Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era" offers a blueprint for political activists, one that well complements the Obama strategies I wrote about on Wednesday. But Moulitsas' book teaches important lessons to would-be journalist entrepreneurs as well. I e-mailed Kos about his book, and point out some of its many lessons, after the jump. ...

Exploring the uses and effects of the Internet in the 2008 U.S. election - By Tom Johnson: For the fourth consecutive election Tom Johnson, professor at Texas Tech University and Barbara Kaye, associate professor at University of Tennessee, are exploring both the uses and effects of the Internet in the presidential campaign. This study, like its predecessors, will explore motivations for using the Internet and its components, credibility of online and traditional media and the degree to which Internet components are taking time away from new media. The new study also explore the degree to which the media are polarizing public opinion by examining selective exposure and hostile media effect. The 2008 study also includes measures for reliance, credibility and motivations for using social network sites and YouTube. Finally, this study doesn't simply look at blogs and political websites, but distinguishes between media journalism, political and candidate blogs and political websites and studies their uses and effects. ...