We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us — all of us — by being active consumers and participants. Here's how.
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. At the beginning of this guest-blogging stint at BoingBoing, I posted a song from my days in music some years back. Several of you… Read the rest of the article: A Bit More Music…and So Long for Now
UPDATED A promotion arrived in my email, offering 40 percent off on products from a company I'd done business with in the past. I was interested in a website construction… Read the rest of the article: Web Software Seller Won't Take No for an Answer
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Brad Friedman at the Brad Blog has been keeping up on the latest too-real news about the nation's voting machines and the people who… Read the rest of the article: E-Voting's Continuing Scandals
UPDATED Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest blogger. Former VP Al Gore is speaking at the CTIA Wireless show on April 3. But the giant trade show says: Special Notice:… Read the rest of the article: Calling Tech Show Bloggers: Please Cover Al Gore's 'Off the Record' Keynote Speech
A few years ago, for reasons that are still unclear, restaurants that created web pages went wild for Flash and graphics. You'd go to a restaurant's website and be forced… Read the rest of the article: Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
A court ruling for the (dark) ages: A condemned Texas inmate who removed his only eye and ate it in a bizarre outburst several months ago on death row is… Read the rest of the article: Utterly Nuts, but Sane Enough to Execute in Texas
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Time for some radical thinking in journalism business models, right? OK, try this thought experiment (wait a second while I put on a flame-retardant… Read the rest of the article: Paying for News: A Mega-Merger Thought Experiment
UPDATE Buried in the Terms of Use of a very interesting and potentially valuable site called Newssift, a just-launched service from the Financial Times that uses semantic-web ideas to help… Read the rest of the article: Violating Terms of Use by Default
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. This is Obama's air-traffic controllers opportunity. In 1981, not long after taking office, President Reagan faced a strike by the nation's air-traffic controllers. He… Read the rest of the article: Obama's Critical Early Test: Corporate Arrogance
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Far earlier than anyone in his position in the recent past, former VP Dick Cheney has gone on the attack against the new administration.… Read the rest of the article: Puppy Dog Journos Protect Poor Dick Cheney from Criticism
BadWareBusters.org is a platform for the further development of StopBadware’s strategy to bring together people, organizations, and data in new ways to fight back against badware. The site already offers… Read the rest of the article: Killing BadWare via a Community
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. An important trial is under way in Montana, where W.R. Grace is the defendant in a case about pollution, conspiracy and cover-up. Journalism and… Read the rest of the article: Covering a Court Case: Journalism and Law Students
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Hearst's decision to shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and go online only is an anticlimax — a long-telegraphed decision. And it's the second such… Read the rest of the article: Seattle Newspaper Goes Online Only; World Doesn't End
So President Obama is finally waking up to the damage being done to his credibility and authority by AIG, a company that is for all practical purposes now an arm… Read the rest of the article: Is Obama Finally Pushing Back on the Wall Street Barons' Supreme Arrogance?
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. The Obama administration has undone a few of the Bush administration's worst policies, true. Yet when it comes to Obama's increasingly clear disdain for… Read the rest of the article: Obama Continues Bush-Era Extremism on Liberties, Secrecy
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. It's even more disgusting than we heard yesterday. According to the Wall Street Journal, AIG, the financial giant that has taken more than $170… Read the rest of the article: AIG Ripoff Gets More Maddening
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Via Joe Costello, a friend and former colleague: While Keynes is all the rage these days, as the way things actually "work" in our society… Read the rest of the article: Thorstein Veblen, Prescient on Today's Media
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Some books and longer articles I've recently been reading or re-reading: The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's masterpiece (IMO). Chilling alternate history,… Read the rest of the article: Weekend Reading
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. In the get-out-the-torches-and-pitchforks category comes this news: Despite receiving $170 billion in federal aid and recording a staggering loss for the last quarter, insurance giant… Read the rest of the article: Basket Case Insurer Gets $170 Billion from Taxpayers, Still Pays Huge Bonuses
