I just received in the mail the hard-copy edition of the Sixteenth Annual Theodore H. White Lecture, hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic gave the lecture on October 27, 2005. The full text is worth reading. (It is available online as a … Read more
1.0 What have we learned at the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility gathering? We started this event — and an associated little firestorm — by broaching the topic of credibility on the web. It was something, we thought, that both journalists and bloggers ought to have a role in working on. Over the past two days … Read more
Yet more insight: just before winging his way across the country from Seattle to ever-so-wintry Boston, Jon Bonne of MSNBC.com tells us why credibility matters, for both journalists and bloggers. Getting credibility right online is essential.
Always worth listening to, David Weinberger strikes me as particularly dead-on in his post of this evening about the blogging and ethics debate that has raged this weekend. There are many aspects of what’s happened in the past few days — loosely swirling around a conference that hasn’t happened yet and around a “disclosure” that … Read more
A very cool piece by Paul Boutin on the presidential primary campaign and technology — including an extremely flattering reference to the Berkman weblogs movement (hey, thanks, Dave Winer!).