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26 Sep

Do we need a bloggers ethics panel?

Remember ?
Well, apparently that blog post (not mine, but the source) raised quite a lot of :
But, I have serious problems with the episode that unfolded recently in which a journalism student at New York University, Alana Taylor, authored a Sept. 5 posting as an “embedded” blogger on MediaShift, writing critically about her class content [...]

26 Sep

‘If Blogging Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed’

Jay Rosen. Makes you think. Watch the .
The number one reason why journalists should blog is that it tutors you in how the Web works. You learn about open systems, and getting picked up; you become more interactive and have to master the horizontal part– or your blog fails. Fails to stick.
As I [...]

25 Sep

Economic Gloom & Doom? Not for Online Retailers!

2008 has been a difficult year for retail. The United States economy has had to face a housing market correction, a sub-prime mortgage crisis, rising unemployment, high food and energy costs, a declining dollar value, and now a financial bailout for Wall Street.
The National Retail Federation predicted this week that these financial pressures will [...]

25 Sep

Travel Marketers Hitch a Ride with Web 2.0

The web 2.0 shift has had a huge impact across a variety of markets. The peer to peer influence on today’s online buyers has prompted many industries to get involved in these new trends to stay on top. Online marketers across the board have responded by incorporating podcasts, blogs, social networking, photo/video-sharing, etc. [...]

24 Sep

Science beyond individual understanding?

wrote another long thought-provoking essay (for his book, I guess):
…………Two clarifications are in order. First, when I say that these are examples of scientific facts beyond individual understanding, I’m not saying a single person can’t understand the meaning of the facts. Understanding what the Higgs particle is requires several years hard work, but there [...]

24 Sep

Creating an Open Forum to Advance Global Health and Social Justice

At Harvard, a week ago:
Yesterday afternoon at the Loeb Theater, Harvard hosted a forum celebrating the tenth edition of their journal Health and Human Rights. This edition is the journal’s first to be presented in open-access format, meaning that anyone can read it without paying the exorbitant fees associated with most journal articles. Bostonist was [...]

24 Sep

North Carolina?

Last week, Charlotte NC got to see Joe Biden, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama on three separate occasions. The TV (so they tell me) is full of campaign ads by both Obama and McCain. Now, Obama and Biden are appearing together in on Saturday. The campaign has been really busy locally, organizing [...]

23 Sep

Dean Kamen is Calling All Mobile Innovators

The name Dean Kamen may not ring a bell.
And you may not be familiar with the multitude of innovations that Kamen has been involved with over the years - like the iBOT all-terrain wheelchair, a mobile dialysis machine called the AutoSyringe, the first insulin pump or the brain-controlled prosthetic limb called the Luke [...]

23 Sep

Gain Buy-In for Integrating Online & Offline Campaigns

A recent study conducted by shows that only 55% of search engine marketers are integrating their search marketing efforts with offline channels.
So why aren’t more marketers integrating their offline and online initiatives? The fact that separate departments manage these marketing initiatives independent of one another is one of the most common factors.
It’s clear [...]

22 Sep

ScienceOnline’09 - be a sponsor

Are you or your company/organization in a position to sponsor the ? It is organized and run by volunteers, registration is free, but putting this together still takes some money and effort. For this, we rely on our sponsors and volunteers.
There are several ways that the event:
Provide a grant
Cash grants provide us [...]


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