Researching Public Radio

Dave Winer asks about the state of financial disclosure among public radio stations, and I responded with the following letter reprinted in full but annotated with links for reference.

Weblog Editing

It’s weird to see all the hand-wringing over the Sacramento Bee decision to subject the weblog of its political columnist to editing prior to posting. “An edited blog is a contradiction in terms,” said Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Really? So if you have an edited blog, it’s no longer a [...]

Politech Going Blog?

Declan McCullough, in an email to subscribers to his excellent Politech list, raises the idea of moving Politech to blog format: “Second, I’m thinking of merging Politech with a blog utility such as Movable Type, primarily to take advantage of RSS. One option would be to keep the Politech home page the way it is [...]

Heritage Reaches Out to Bloggers

Just got an email from the Heritage Foundation, whom I’ve never contacted through my personal email account. Looks like they’re trying to pitch to bloggers on the Medicare legislation being haggled out in Congress:

Received: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:46:35 PDT
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World Events on Weekdays

Perhaps the best initial explanation for a blog I’ve seen in some time, from Harvard professor Michael Watkins: “I plan to post commentaries to this blog on world events on weekdays.” There’s your scope and schedule in one sensible sentence. And he does what he says, too.