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Archive for July, 2010
Cathy is on vacation: July 26th to August 4th
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Documentary, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Library News, Public Relations, Radio, Television on July 23, 2010 | Comments Off
THR: Man who threatened ‘South Park’ arrested
Posted in Legal Studies, Television on July 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Hibberd, James. (2010, July 21). Reports: Man who threatened ‘South Park’ arrested. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 22, 2010, from http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/reports-man-who-threatened-south-park-arrested.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+live_feed+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Live+Feed%29 The man threatened South Park creators Parker & Stone.
The Big Money: the crisis in crisis PR
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Public Relations on July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
DeBord, Matthew. (2010, July 20). The Crisis in Crisis PR. The Big Money. Retrieved July 21, 2010, from http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2010/07/20/crisis-crisis-pr Guess what is used as a case study? BP and Toyota.
Variety: Carriers aim for FCC
Posted in Legal Studies, Television on July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Littleton, C. (2010, July 22). Carriers aim for FCC: Battle lines forming over retransmission consent process. Variety. Retrieved July 21, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021976.html?categoryid=4025&cs=1&nid=2248 Perusing the article, this is a rather complicated issue. From the lede: Battle lines over the FCC’s retransmission consent process are forming in Washington once again as the deadline in the next [...]
LexisNexis Academic: Finding Broadcast Transcripts
Posted in InfoTech, Journalism, Library News, Radio, Television on July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
LexisNexis is helping out librarians by posting “how to” videos to their YouTube site. Here is one on Finding Broadcast Transcripts (to see the full screen version go here). Access LexisNexis HERE. LexisNexis Academic: Finding Broadcast Transcripts, posted with vodpod
Best practices in fair use for comm research
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Legal Studies on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Thanks to Adrian Ho for alerting me of the two new Center for Social Media publications: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication Clipping Our Own Wings: Copyright and Creativity in Communication Research http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/documents/clipping-our-own-wings-copyright-and-creativity-communication-r
I’ve moved my office – one door down & LexisNexis (again)
Posted in Library News on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Today I moved to a new cubicle. It is only one door down from where I was before. It gave me reason to clean out my files and dust off my desk. Stop by if you’re in the library! Also: the new LexisNexis is back up again. We switched back to the old version temporarily [...]
Open Video Alliance
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Documentary, Indymedia, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
OVA is advertising their conference October 1-2, 2010: http://www.openvideoconference.org/ Open Video Alliance | About, posted with vodpod
OnlineMediaDaily: new privacy bill released
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Legal Studies on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Davis, Wendy. (2010, July 20). New Privacy Bill Released, House To Consider Thursday. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved July 20, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=132215&nid=116719 From the lede: Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) unveiled a privacy bill on Monday that would require companies to obtain people’s opt-in consent before disclosing their personal information to third parties in some circumstances.
paidContent: E-books pass print
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Library News on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Tartakoff, J. (2010, July 19). Amazon: Kindle Sales Growth Tripled Since Price Cut; E-Books Pass Print | paidContent. paidContent. Retrieved July 20, 2010, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-amazon-says-kindle-sale-growth-has-tripled-since-price-cut/ For some reason Amazon is unwilling to produce the number of sales.
‘Crude’ director Joe Berlinger & Chevron
Posted in Documentary, Legal Studies on July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Gardner, Eriq. (2010, July 14). Q&A: ‘Crude’ director Joe Berlinger on his epic battle with Chevron. Hollywood Reporter / THR, Esq.. Retrieved July 20, 2010, from http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/qa-with-crude-director-joe-berlinger-on-2nd-circuit-hearing.html Itzkoff, D. (2010, July 16). Director Accepts Limits on Chevron to ‘Crude’ Footage. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/movies/17crude.html?src=mv Excerpt: The panel ruled that Mr. Berlinger must [...]
MediaPost: Coke capitalizes on social media buzz
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on July 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Greeberg, K. (2010, July 16). Coke Capitalizes On Social Media Buzz. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved July 16, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=132019&nid=116622 Excerpt: Michael Donnelly, the Atlanta-based company’s group director of worldwide interactive marketing, speaking at the ANA’s Social Media conference in New York on Thursday, said fan-generated content and commentary costs nothing, and is a major benefit [...]
Research Brief: Online video viewing stats
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Television on July 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Loechner, J. (2010, July 16). YouTube Scores 101 Online Videos Per Viewer in May 07/16/2010. Retrieved July 16, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=131990#comments Excerpt: New data from comScore shows that 183 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month of May. YouTube.com achieved record levels of viewing activity with an all-time high of 14.6 billion [...]
NYTimes.com: Wyatt’s article on the FCC expletives policy
Posted in Journalism, Legal Studies, Radio, Television on July 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Wyatt, E. (2010, July 13). F.C.C. Expletives Policy Ruled Unconstitutional. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/business/media/14indecent.html?_r=2&th&emc=th A more comprehensive article than I posted previously.
OECD: Future of News and the ‘net, Broadband data
Posted in Culture and Communications, Indymedia, InfoTech, Journalism, Radio, Television on July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
From “What’s New @ OECD, June 2010″: Information and Communications Technology OECD examines the future of news and the internet. Report (PDF 2.2 mb) Broadband Data for December 2009 The average penetration rate across the OECD has grown to 23.3 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants up from 22.8 in June 2009. OECD Broadband Portal
WaPoTech: Court strikes down FCC indecency rules on fleeting expletives
Posted in Culture and Communications, Legal Studies, Public Relations, Radio, Television on July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Kang, Cecilia Kang. (2010, July 13). Court strikes down FCC indecency rules on fleeting f-bombs. Washington Post / Post Tech. Retrieved July 13, 2010, from http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/court_strikes_down_fcc_indecen.html This is likely not the end. The article indicates that broadcasters will attempt to overturn the FCC policy by taking their case to the Supreme Court.
Forbes / In Pictures: The most imaginitive CSR campaigns
Posted in Communications Management &Design on July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Click here to see the picture series. Text appears when you mouse over the images. The “Next” button is to the right of the title.
UTNE: How to make your own Zine
Posted in Culture and Communications, Indymedia on July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Wlizlo, Will. (2010, July 8). How to Make Your Own Zine. UTNE Reader. Retrieved July 13, 2010, from http://www.utne.com/media/how-to-make-your-own-zine.aspx?utm_content=07.12.10+Arts&utm_campaign=Emerging+Ideas-Every+Day&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email Includes a video. Not only should you make a zine, you should send your copy to UTNE!
Pew: The future of online socializing
Posted in Culture and Communications on July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Anderson, Janna, R. L. (2010, July 2). The Future of Online Socializing. Pew Research Center. Retrieved July 13, 2010, from http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1652/social-relations-online-experts-predict-future An excerpt from the Overview: Some 85% agreed with the statement: “In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my personal friendships, marriage and other relationships, I see that the internet [...]
Berkman Buzz: Week of July 5, 2010
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Journalism, Legal Studies on July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Here are some of the highlights from the Berkman Center for Internet &Society at Harvard: “A filmmaker’s fight against an oil company seeking his raw documentary footage has spurred a national debate on the reporter’s privilege, pitting media organizations and filmmakers against powerful corporations and criminal defense attorneys. At stake is the breadth of the [...]
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