This is my liveblog from Freedom House’s “Freedom of the Press 2010” launch event at the Newseum in Washington, DC on April 29th, 2010.
Check the note at the bottom to see why these tweets look so Web -0.5.
2010-04-29 19:27:17
bencolmery4: Chris: …legal fees for libel tourism too expensive for journos, so they soften their reporting to avoid court battles #fotpfh2010
2010-04-29 19:26:17
bencolmery4: Chris at Freedom House was saying that libel tourism is a problem bc it puts burden of proof on journalists, and… #fotpfh2010
2010-04-29 15:59:48
bencolmery4: Had to duck out just as Chris Walker of Freedom House was talking libel tourism and a case in Ukraine #fotpfh2010
2010-04-29 15:43:59
bencolmery4: Boorstin: Australia is working to filter the net to protect kids, cause for alarm #fotpfh2010
2010-04-29 15:42:41
bencolmery4: Boorstin: It’s distressing that Google has been forced to remove its ability to get news to people, since Baidu isn’t adequate #fotpfh2010
2010-04-29 15:39:50
bencolmery4: Robert Boorstin of Google is talking about Google and China. Google felt it better to engage Chinese imperfectly than not at all #fotpfh2010
2010-04-29 15:36:42
bencolmery4: Sad I will have to leave soon to go to the CIMA event. #fotpfh2010 [click to continue…]
As I think about the points I’d like to make at the Policy Making in the Digital Age conference this Saturday, and the “Policy Schools and the New Media Debate” panel I’m moderating, I can’t help but stop and wonder, “How DO we make policy in the digital age?” I am someone who looks deep into these issues every single day, and from what I see each day, and have watched happen over the past few years of this digital age, I can only think that there may be no hardened answer to this question but, “With great flexibility and a watchful eye.” [click to continue…]
“It’s time I sling the baskets off this overburdened horse. Sink me toes into the ground, and set a different course”. – Phish, from “The Horse”
I learned something about myself last week. Something I essentially already knew deep down, but hadn’t had the opportunity to jam into my face for several days straight. Everything I do in media, everything I do period, comes from a relationship I have formed along the way. Relationships are at the root of everything.
This might not sound like much. Of course, you might say. Sure, of course. But it isn’t “of course”. You have to experience it first hand, perhaps through a social experiment, like I just conducted, in which one group of data points in your sample place relationships at the center, and one group of data points in which relationships are almost entirely removed. [click to continue…]
