BLOGWARS reviewed by Samuel Liles
BLOGWARS was reviewed by technology research and writer Professor Samuel Liles ( Purdue University Calumet). I also responded to a reader comment.
Originally posted August 18, 2008 at PolicyByBlog...
David Perlmutter Interviewed by Care2
I was interviewed by Care2, a company that provides online outreach for nonprofits.
David Perlmutter Talks Blogs, Interactors, and Jon Stewart
David Perlmutter, author of the new book Blog Wars, is a professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes.
Clint O'Brien: What inspired you to write this book?
David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites. Basically, what we found was that they were pretty much static bulletin boards: speeches, statements, pictures just posted up there. No real interactivity. At the same time, I had been writing a lot on new communication technologies...
Pigs and Lipstick: Personal Still Defines the Political
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,...
Perlmutter Speaks about Medical Blogs to New England Journal of Medicine
While political blogging gets lots of attention, there are many kinds of blogging that are equally or more popular. I have posted here in the past about the types of medical blogs and even suggested a "Hippocratic Oath" for medical bloggers. I had the opportunity to twice speak on the subject for the New England Journal of Medicine.
David D. Perlmutter. Featured speaker on "Medical Blogging: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Professionals," New England Journal of Medicine New Horizons Conference, Wellesley, MA, October 24-25, 2008.
David D. Perlmutter. Featured speaker on "Building an Online Community for Professionals: The Lessons of Political Blogging." Massachusetts Medical Society & New England Journal of Medicine Committee on Publications, Waltham, MA, October 22, 2008.
Originally posted October 29, 2008 at PolicyByBlog ...
A Slow (or Bright) Blog Manifesto
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...
The End of Geoprivacy
Ever have the feeling that someone is spying on you?
Today, it's more likely that you are broadcasting enough information thatanyone can spy on you.
In the most recent issue of Wired magazine, freelance writer Mathew Honan recounts his "I am here"adventures of a "3-week experiment of living la vida local." Using all the new technology (software and hardware) especially iPhone apps, he demonstrates how easy it is to be constantly monitoring your environment electronically as well as for everybody to know where you are. For example, with the program WhoseHere, you can send your latitude and longitude location and instantly get responses from other people in the area. The responses, needless to say, range from "I'm looking for sex" to "Really great coffee shop."
Other interesting revelations: "Because iPhones embed geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or Picasa, iPhone shots can be automatically placed on a map." In other words, people will know exactly where you were when you took the picture. Interestingly,...
Rhonda Shearer on “Stinky Journalism”
Rhonda Roland Shearer, Director, Art Science Research Laboratory and theStinkyJournalism media ethics institute spoke by telephone to my J608 Ethics and Media class. Ms. Shearer is also the widow of the late evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould.
Originally posted February 23, 2009 at PolicyByBlog...
Darryl (From “The Office”): Everyone is a Paparazzo?
On this site and in my classes, we have talked a lot about the changes inpolitics and other parts of life and labor that easy Internet access, online social-interactive media, and the cell phone (with its picture, sound and video capture and upload capabilities) have occasioned. In politics, we know that the personal appearance is different because a politician never knows who in the audience might get them on video or record them in some other way and YouTube a quote or a rant or just a funny picture. Celebrities of other kinds--like athletes and entertainers--have always faced the dilemma of being "outed" while in private by paparazzi. Now in the same way that everyone is a potential journalist, everyone is also a potential paparazzo. What are the privacy rights of individuals anywhere--OUR GEOPRIVACY? Should ordinary fans or witnesses know or care? At a minimum, it is pretty clear that if a celebrity like, say, a star of a TV show, appears in...
Mass Communication and Society on “New Media in the 2008 Presidential Election”
David D. Perlmutter and Tom Johnson (Texas Tech) will be co-editors of a special issue of the academic journal Mass Communication and Society on "New Media in the 2008 Presidential Election."
Originally posted May 5, 2009 at PolicyByBlog...
Perlmutter on Jeremy Taylor Show
David D. Perlmutter was a guest on the Jeremy Taylor Show on 1320am (KLWN) radio in Lawrence. He spoke about Facebook and other social media.
Originally posted May 5, 2009 at PolicyByBlog...