tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66293142009-10-31T07:39:20.788-04:00Not many answers but lots and lots of questions!!!Patrick Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704735841036137475noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629314.post-1163081502573179012006-11-09T09:11:00.000-05:002006-11-09T09:11:42.653-05:00

Freelance Journalism being what it is, we don't get many breaks so it's nice when we do.I got mail from Access Copyright and even with "Pay to the Order of" showing clearly in the window of the envelope my expectations were not very high.Those expectations were stratospherically surpassed when I openeded it. The amount represents the 2nd largest payment I have received for my work as a freelancer

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If articles are soapboxes then headlines are the guy standing on top of them and yelling to the world. I'd bet headline scanning forms more of our world view than we might like to admit.I had already read the Wikipedia malware story when I came across the careless headline wording in this November 6, 2006 08:31 AM posting by Caroline Craig which seems to imply that Wikipedia intentionally spread

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I received another email petition today. This one is in support of a Nobel nomination for Stephen Lewis for his humanitarian work.If the web response is any indicator this one has a broad base of support.I have nothing against Stephen Lewis (I'm sure he'll be glad to know ;>)but journalists shouldn't sign petitions if you ask me. Objectivity is a enough difficult thing to maintain. Backing causes

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Sounds like more fun than it really is. What a lot of newcomers to HTML don't realize if they want to figure out how others handle web page layout they can either;- in Mozilla Firefox - hit Ctrl-u (hold down control key and hit 'u') or click View>Page Source on the menu bar. That will bring up another window with the HTML for the page you're looking at.- in IE - click View>Source (there's no

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I like books and I love free. here's the best of both.Welcome to Free Book Zone - Engineering, Technical, Medical, Maths, Physics eBooks: "Welcome to FreeBookZone, your one stop solution for free eBooksWhat's InsideFreeBookZone lists free computer science, engineering books, programming manuals, lecture notes and coursewares, all of which are freely available over the internet. Most of the

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I'm sure neither Google nor the Globe and Mail intended this to happen (and hopefully both will take steps to ensure it won't again) and I'm quite sure the advertiser doesn't want to be placed here but it's an excellent case in point for the inherent problems with tools like Google's AdSense that "read" the site they're working on and generate ads related to the text on the page.The following

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"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.""These three

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I know I'm probably really late to this party but the best -of-craigslist is some of the best writing I've seen in a while.Personal favourites include;M.C. with a boyfriend...or someone to kill a cockroach.I love Your Baby and Toddler, BUT....and last but not least;Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian--PB--

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Aaaaahhhh the dream work-at-home job. All I have to do is find you. Thankfully there's a service that will find me all the work I need. Unfortunately the work seems to be digging myself out from under all the hype.After signing up for Freelance Work Exchange (FWE) I was automatically put on a newsletter subscription. I'm careful about looking for those things and opting out so I'm pretty sure

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Is it still cynicism if you're right?I was working on the blog was actually reading the ads from Google's Adsense program because I had done some work with the template and was making sure everything was working as it should.One of the ads offered $300 (presumably U.S.) for 15 minutes work.Now in the agreement I have with the Adsense program I agreed not to click on my own ads. Clicks are what I

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I click on e-mail support in the help menu thinking it would actually allow me to, well, e-mail support. I realize now the problem is my expectations and not the fact the e-mail support menu item does not actually allow you to e-mail support. It brings up a whole other window that has one lonely e-mail address that disappears (!!!) when I hover over it.I won't even mention the fact the address is

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It seems neither the lawmakers nor anyone else involved in the debate around lawful access laws - the proposed legislation to force ISP's to build wiretap capabilities into the Internet - is standing far enough back to see the big picture. This is not new. For whatever reason, people see the Internet communications as fundamentally different from other forms of communication. Take the dot.com

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This site is incredible. There are links to more journalism resources than I could reasonably check out on Karl Tonella's University of Iowa Reference Sources & Tools for Journalists. I picked the "Working Journalist's" page to launch you into because it contains; Almanacs, Maps, Atlases & Geopolitical Resources (16 links), 5 online Dictionaries, 4 Encyclopedias and 8 entries under Converters,

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It occurs to me that most journalists probably don't realize the domain names they type into their browsers all day long may actually be sources of information in and of themselves.The DNS is a map and a rosetta stone for the Internet. It translates from human-readable domain names we use (e.g. www.gc.ca - the main Government of Canada web site) to numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (

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I received yet another chain message from someone who is bright enough to know better but, in this case, let their good nature trump their good sense.=====Begin Message=========Really sorry to do this to you, but I have hand picked 10 friends in my life who I think I can count on to help a friend of mine's son with a school project.If you could do this I would appreciate it! It's quick to do and

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As if Google wasn't incredible enough the anti-Microsoft has a video archive search in beta. "Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.Just type in your search term (for

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Google Blog: "Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google. Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search."===30===Google maps, video and more. Google is the Microsoft of search except Google has a conscience.PB

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I was considering writing my own anti-Betmann diatribe when I came across this. Mr. Ozanian not only gets the sport he gets the business. I'm biased because I agree with him but Mr. Ozanian has hit the nail one the head here. Blame Bettman Sports Feature Blame Bettman Michael K. Ozanian, 02.17.05, 3:00 PM ET "NEW YORK - Hockey is a sport whose lifeblood has always been the arena. Unlike

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This story makes me wonder what goes on in the minds of those who were in the meeting where they decided to go ahead with this. Apple (as do many high-tech companies) depend on their symbiotic relationship with the media to get the word out about their products. EFF Asks Court to Protect Online Journalists "February 14, 2005 - Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a California

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Reuters AlertNet - SOMALIA: Journalist's killing widely condemned: ........ "Kate Peyton, 39, who was working for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), was shot on Wednesday in front of her hotel as she was getting into a car. She was rushed to a local hospital and died there later, a local journalist who was at the scene at the time told IRIN. "I don't want to speculate about who killed

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USATODAY.com - U.S. journalists fare well on test of ethics, study finds: Recent opinion polls show declining respect for the news media and a growing belief among many Americans that reporters have little regard for ethics. High-profile journalism scandals involving ethical lapses at CBS News, The New York Times, USA TODAY and other media outlets have fed the public's distrust of reporters.

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Ethics Cookbook Readers must know that the newspaper that arrives on their doorstep every morning is there to serve them — not politicians of a certain stripe, not special interest groups. That puts the burden on us — editors, reporters, copy editors, news researchers, photographers, designers, graphic artists and support personnel — to avoid conflicts of interest or even the appearance of such

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Preamble"Informed, sensitive and professional journalism is a key element in any media strategy for improving the quality of reporting concerning human rights and society. The daily challenge to journalists and media organisations is particularly felt in coverage of children and their rights.Although the human rights of children have only recently been defined in international law, the United

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NOW Toronto has long traded on it's virulent pseudo-rebel stance using passionately purple prose to paint every authority figure it covers as the prime suspect in an ongoing world-wide conspiracy. In this story "Force makes bold bid to keep records on the innocent" they've gone over some limit in my brain where I have to speak up. There's so much wrong with this story I barley know where to begin

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A free anti-spam tool that's easy to use "Anti spam fights spam bots The purpose of this page is to make it so spammers who attempt to collect email addresses off the web, via programs, will not have real email addresses in their database. Anti-Spam causes problems because they will have to clean out their list. It also makes their database worthless for reselling purposes because the company

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