Rhonda LeValdo Reporting from the Conventions

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A graduate student in our KU program, Rhonda LeValdo, is reporting from the conventions. Details: She reports from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, focusing on the presidential race and how federal funding for education impacts many students on campus. As a National Minority Consortia fellow and teacher at Haskell Indian Nations University, LeValdo story focuses specifically on Native American college students, their views on the presidential candidates, and how their lives are impacted by federal funding for education. You can view Rhonda's story on the Online News Hour blog. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/reportersblog/2008/08/native_american_students_conce.html Other NMC videos are available for viewing here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=1&pkg=vote2008nmc&seg=1 Tags: diversity beat, education, election, national minority consortia, pbs Originally posted September 2, 2008 at PolicyByBlog...
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Perlmutter Interviewed by BlogTalkRadio

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PbB editor David Perlmutter was interviewed by John Ciampa for his Bloggerschool Podcast on BlogTalkRadio (Saturday 09.06.08) and later (Weds., 09.10.08) for BlogtalkRadio's Alan Levy Show by Hilary Leewong & Shaun Daily. The topics: Perlmutter's book BLOGWARS and the upcoming CITIZEN JOURNALISM WORKSHOP I helped create at BLOGWORLD & NEW MEDIA EXPO 2008, Sept. 19, 2008 – 10:00AM – 4:45PM (Las Vegas Convention Ctr.) Originally posted September 13, 2008 at PolicyByBlog ...
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Perlmutter Interviewed on KUCR Public Radio

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bB editor David Perlmutter was a panelist on the "Up to Date" show on KCUR Public Radio in Kansas City. Host Steve Kraske led a roundtable discussion of journalism and politics. The other guests were the Kansas City Star readers' representative Derek Donovan and Bottom Line Communications head John Landsberg. Originally posted September 13, 2008 at PolicyByBlog...
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Pigs and Lipstick: Personal Still Defines the Political

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It was only a few hours after John McCain announced Alaska Gov. SarahPalin as his running mate when bloggers started rumors about the unknown pick: Daily Kos blogger Inky99 suggested that Palin's fifth child may not be hers and was actually her 17-year-old daughter's. Citing a March 2008 story from the Anchorage Daily News where Palin announced she was seven months pregnant, Inky99 focused on an eyebrow-raiser: The "always-trim" governor didn't look pregnant. Rumors churned for a few days until Palin disabused rumors and revealed her daughter Bristol is pregnant, but news coverage still focused on Palin's personal life – as evidenced in the latest editions of news weeklies like Time and gossip magazines like Us Weekly (the latter of which featured Palin on the cover with "Babies, Lies and Scandal" as its headline, promising details of "embarrassing surprises"). Now, a week later, Palin's home life is still a hot topic: Blogger Mitch Marconi says it's all the media wants to talk about,...
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Perlmutter Speech at the Society for Scholarly Publishing

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David Perlmutter gave the Keynote Speech at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 4. The topic: " How Blogging Is Changing Our World: The Lessons from Politics. Some links: http://beyondthebookcast.com/btb-61-from-ssp-a-look-at-authors-ascendant-episode-1/ http://ssptmr.wordpress.com/ Originally posted September 16, 2008 at PolicyByBlog ...
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Perlmutter Speaks on American Political Blogging to Europeans (Dept. of State)

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I just finished up a U.S. Department of State speaking tour of the Netherlands and Germany. Interest in American politics, new media and this election was VERY high. For more on the events in Munich--sponsored by the U.S. Consulate--go here. My different events and speeches: David D. Perlmutter. Panelist: Discussion on the Presidential Debates, Munich Conference on "U.S. Elections 2008: The Digital Campaign" at the German-American Institute, Munich, Germany, October 8, 2008. David D. Perlmutter. Keynote speaker on "Blogwars: The New Political Battleground," Munich Conference on "U.S. Elections 2008: The Digital Campaign" at the German-American Institute, Munich, Germany, October 8, 2008. David D. Perlmutter. Keynote speaker on "Overview of the New Media Landscape," Munich Conference on "U.S. Elections 2008: The Digital Campaign," on German Public Radio, Munich, Germany, October 7, 2008. David D. Perlmutter. Presentation on "U.S. Elections and New Media" at the German-American Institute, Nürnberg, Germany, October 6, 2008. David D. Perlmutter. Presentation on "U.S. Elections and New Media" at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, October 3,...
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A Slow (or Bright) Blog Manifesto

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It ought also to be said that he was immensely painstaking. [When he made] Broad and powerful statements...they were no mere assertions, but the product of countless hours of research into the minutiae of the subject. Even by the usual scrupulous standards of comparative philology, Tolkien was extraordinary in this respect. His concern for accuracy cannot be overemphasized, and it was doubly valuable because it was coupled with a flair for detecting patterns and relations. 'Detecting' is a good word, for it is not too great a flight of fancy to picture him as a linguistic Sherlock Holmes, presenting himself with an apparently disconnected series of facts and deducing from them the truth about some major matter. He also demonstrated his ability to 'detect' on a simpler level, for when discussing a word or phrase with a pupil he would cite a wide range of comparable forms and expressions in other languages.* I have been thinking lately about these words written...
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Mars Lander: Death Blog

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Computerworld reports the last post of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander: "So long, Earth. I'll be here to greet the next explorers to arrive, be they robot or human." You wonder what 2001's HAL would have put in his Twitter tweets and blog posts. "I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit"? Originally posted November 11, 2008 at PolicyByBlog...
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Ganja Queen and Media Ethics

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In my Journalism Media & Ethics class we screened the HBO documentary "Ganja Queen," which told the story of a young Australian woman who was accused and then convicted of importing marijuana into Bali, Indonesia. The documentary raises a number of questions about the ethics of representation of true-life stories, especially in an age of online social-interactive media and "reality" television. First, to what extent does a broadcaster or documentary filmmaker owe it to the audience to update knowledge about a subject? In this case, there have been numerous developments since the documentary was filmed, some of which probably would radically change the audience's perception of events. Second, most ordinary people are not media-savvy in the sense of having the degree of self-awareness to know when something they are saying or doing looks wrong or suspicious on camera. Does a documentary filmmaker, especially in a criminal case, owe it to the subjects to help them be at their best for the camera, or is the goal to...
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