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Audio ethics

An interesting ethical question came up this morning when one of our reporters interviewed the university president. The reporter used a digital voice recorder, and of course asked permission to record the interview. At the end, he asked the president if he minded the Northern Star putting part of the interview online as an audio file. The president declined, and said he would have spoken differently had he known the interview might be put on the Web. | Read More...

Light blogging notice

In case you haven't noticed, I've been off the path for a few days, and will likely continue to be for a few more days. I invite you to enjoy some of the rest of the journoblogosphere in the meantime. | Read More...

XML - an update

It has been a while since I wrote on XML. I've been pouring over material and thought I would put some new information out as well as ask for some feedback. | Read More...

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Trying out Zemanta

Why you don't have to ask permissionImage by karindalziel via FlickrI noticed a little icon popping up in a couple of RSS feeds yesterday (Specifically, Alfred Hermida's Reportr.net), and started looking into the product behind the icon. It's an interesting plug-in that may help make blogging a little easier: Zemanta. | Read More...

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