April Fool’s Day wasn’t kind to Slideshare, the San Francisco/New Delhi-based site that hosts slideshows of presentations. It’s the equivalent of Youtube, but for PowerPoint presentations instead of videos. On April 1, Slideshare sent to its users an email saying, “You are a Slideshare rockstar.” It detailed the number of views users had received on [...]
March 6, 2009
A Summary of the Undercover Food Lion Story The University of Nevada’s “J-week,” a series of cutting-edge journalism events running this week, is just about over. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend two lectures yesterday. Lynne Dale, former reporter and producer from ABC’s Primetime Live, gave a tell-all account of going undercover [...]
October 14, 2008
After reading my local paper’s articles online, I often skim down to the comments below the article. It is here where I begin to feel so very unclean. With the advent of attempts at creating more transparent journalism, many news media outlets allow ordinary folks to comment on their news stories online. I’m not sure [...]
June 4, 2008
How a consumer protection law may be defeated by a faux consumer watchdog campaign By Daniel Loxton [Editor's note: This is republished from The Skeptic. The intention with this post is to illustrate how 'grass-roots' campaigns, activist causes and the like don't have play by the rules of transparency, accuracy and the free flow of information.] [...]
May 2, 2008
I’m no Buddha*. And likely, neither are you. The amount of perfection expected for people is unrealistic and often contradictory. The world’s noted scandals are often the results of character flaws of familial, biological and sociocultural origins, of which most of us possess. Yet the bar is raised particularly high for public figures. It’s at [...]
April 5, 2009