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Two live blog posts at US Politics: Sen. Edwards and Net Neutrality.

Updated: 9.30 Saturday
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FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that sexual predators are poised to “use the information that children provide on social networking sites to identify, contact, and exploit them, unless these sites are constructed to reduce access to this information, or users themselves take steps to limit unwanted access.”

The FTC has prepared a parental guide (pdf) and a teen guide (pdf). It is also investigating social networking sites like MySpace “to determine whether they are in compliance with COPPA” regarding collecting information on children under 13. (tip)

So, an HOUR ago I tried to help propogate the TechMeme meme … and it seems that our wiFi bandwidth is clearly overwhelmed as Typepad timed out and  <arghhh!> ate my post.

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So, an HOUR ago I tried to help propogate the TechMeme meme … and it seems that our wiFi bandwidth is clearly overwhelmed as Typepad timed out and  <arghhh!> ate my post.

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For too long, perhaps, we’ve thought about news as a channel … not about the actual content. Hence words like newspaper, TV news and radio news. Maybe this is an outgrowth of increasingly mediated information … don’t know, that’s a conversation for another day.

As I said last week at a panel on citizen journalism, a "newspaper" has a key core competency: finding, researching and reporting on issues of import to their audience. Newspapers, I said, need to think beyond the printed product and recognize that creating content, not paper, is what they do.* And do very well, in the main, thank you very much.

Enter the Washington Post, aware of both this core competency and an increasingly multi-media world:

Shortly after Steve Coll became managing editor of the Washington Post
in 1998, he wrote a memo about the coming marriage of print and
Internet journalism. He said that future reporters would be outfitted
with video cameras, which could be attached to their hats, almost like
the little press cards stuck in fedoras back in the old days.

In the newsroom, reporters laughed and called the futuristic reporting device “hatcam.”

No one’s laughing now: The Post is shipping digital video cameras to its bureaus. Post reporters are expected to report in multimedia.

“About
a quarter of the foreign bureaus have digital video cameras,” says
foreign editor Keith Richburg. “Our goal would be to get them out to
them all.”

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Buzz Machine reports that the BBC is "attempt[ing] to get the heads of its many news networks to open up and talk about the process of news" by making public its editor’s blog.  This is the latest effort by established media (aka MSM) to provide a glimpse into gatekeeping decisions. As such, it can logically be seen as an extension of the newspaper ombudsman, with at least one clear difference: there is no middle man between the editor and the reader.

I’ve been remiss in posting … what with finals and getting ready for summer quarter (streaming media) … and getting my first summer allergy attack in two years. Today I had the pleasure of speaking with the Seattle chapter of Women in Communications (AWC) as part of a panel on citizen journalism, with Jim Tellus of KOMO-TV and Rita Hibbard of the P-I.

Rather than post a new summary of my thoughts on this and related topics … I’ll point to comments made earlier: PRSA Panel, 2 March; Blogging and Public Affairs, 29 March; and Interactivity in Online News, 10 May.

Two websites mentioned of note: OhMyNews and EPIC2015.

The Seattle Times reports that the six-lane option is "gaining ground" … which seems like such a "doh" that I hestitate to even note it. Of course, six lanes are more expensive than four - on many levels - and the PI reports that a panel is evaluating funding options for SR520 as well as overhaul of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.