Tracking Rita: Interactive
...el of an event, said Dwight Silverman, the Chronicle's interactive journalism editor. In traditional reporting you put on your poker face and do your writing.... It's not supposed to be the writer's emotions.
The Chronicle set up a second blog for its own staff writers -- this one edited -- to post ......more...Arianna Learns to Love the Blog
... bad! But now that I'm in it, I know they weren't kidding. For me it's become an around-the-clock endeavor. Even my Sundays are now being consumed by writing our Russert Watch feature. In fact, when I was on vacation this summer, it was impossible to disconnect from the 24-hour news cycle and from t......more... Volez ce MP3!
...ella told Wired News. It's like condemning people for driving too fast after selling them cars that go 250 kmh.
Barella first began his crusade after writing an article in the French daily Libération in March following rulings by French judges who suspended jail time and fines for alleged perpe......more... Rants Raves
...s of hard work and study in the pursuit of knowledge than to have the teachers automate the grading of written assignments (Computers Grade Students' Writing, May 8, 2005). Teachers should lead by example. If they find grading written assignments tedious and unchallenging perhaps they should teach s......more... Copyright Reform to Free Orphans?
...mpanies no longer exist.
The uncertainty of copyright ownership means Goodman, an Emmy-nominated director with a long career in film, photography and writing, is facing substantial costs, a lot of tedious research and, if he's really unlucky, lawsuits.
There's no good copyright clearinghouse to go t......more... Apple 1, Indie Journalists 0
...s a desperate attempt to silence the masses of bloggers and online journalists that it cannot control but feels it can intimidate, Jade, who has been writing about Apple for more than eight years, wrote in an e-mail earlier this week. Online publications are typically not backed by commercially fund......more... Sci-Fi Epic Shot on a Shoestring
...several photogenic locations, including the control room in a nuclear reactor and a NASA zero-gravity pit located a quarter-mile underground.
But the writing is overly earnest, some of the performances are shaky, and the story, which might make perfect sense as a pulpy sci-fi novel, is a few helixes......more... The Web Not the Death of Language
...f personal information on blogs. But some researchers believe we have entered a new era of expression.
Resources for the expression of informality in writing have hugely increased -- something not seen in English since the Middle Ages, said David Crystal, an author and linguistics professor at the U......more... Hartley Changes Tune at Sundance
... to pour all of them into this vessel that we call sci-fi.... I was a casual fan -- I read Heinlein, some Ursula Le Guin -- but once I realized I was writing a sci-fi, I knew I needed to know more. This movie is an answer to or echo of Godard's Alphaville, and maybe Fahrenheit 451. I also rediscover......more... |