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3 months ago
in shoving the vampires into sunlight on odd time signatures
What a perfect photo to go with my thought. I'll have to look now and again at it as a reminder.
11 months ago
in What I really wished I’d said on the radio today on STL Social Media Guy
Actually, I would argue that a class of elite news-consumers already exists. People who get a large percentage of their news from the internet tend consistently to score on tests as better informed than people who don't. The internet gives one the power to research stories and read multiple points of view on one issue, and often gets one access to first-person accounts of events not available elsewhere. This doesn't happen with the top-down broadcast news model.
Of course, not all people who use the internet for news are wealthy. Many are middle-class or working class. But I'd argue that the very poor do not have easy access to the internet. I often see poor people at my local library lining up for the privilege of using a computer with internet access for one hour. And many people in rural areas do not have regular access to the internet at all.
And though it's true that many of the working poor have access to cell phones, they often do not have internet access through those phones. Heck, I don't have internet access on MY phone (though that is because I am a cell phone luddite not because I can't afford it).
I do think that everyone these days has plenty of access to basic news. But I'd prefer that the elite class of power-news-consumers expand, because I believe a well-informed populace is an essential component of a well-run democracy. I hope for a day when access to the internet is as ubiquitous and cheap as access to a landline phone once was.
Of course, not all people who use the internet for news are wealthy. Many are middle-class or working class. But I'd argue that the very poor do not have easy access to the internet. I often see poor people at my local library lining up for the privilege of using a computer with internet access for one hour. And many people in rural areas do not have regular access to the internet at all.
And though it's true that many of the working poor have access to cell phones, they often do not have internet access through those phones. Heck, I don't have internet access on MY phone (though that is because I am a cell phone luddite not because I can't afford it).
I do think that everyone these days has plenty of access to basic news. But I'd prefer that the elite class of power-news-consumers expand, because I believe a well-informed populace is an essential component of a well-run democracy. I hope for a day when access to the internet is as ubiquitous and cheap as access to a landline phone once was.
1 year ago
in The Disappointing Lineup For The STL Interactive Festival on Hell Yeah Bitch! .com
Hi Mike. I'm the author of the Guild post about the panels. I made a point of mentioning that it was a PARTIAL list to give a GENERAL idea of the type of event we were planning, and then I specifically asked readers to submit more panel ideas in the comments. In fact, to quote myself, what I wrote was: "We already have a list of great panel ideas, submitted by Guild members and other members of the St. Louis community. But, we need your help! What topics would you like to see discussed at the festival? Here some highlights from our current panel topic list, to offer you some inspiration"
We are very much still in the planning stages of this event and we are making a point to solicit input from bloggers and social media users across the area. I do wish you had chosen to take the opportunity we offered in that post to include your two cents.
And by the way, Bill Streeter is a member of the Guild and is heavily involved with planning this event.
We are very much still in the planning stages of this event and we are making a point to solicit input from bloggers and social media users across the area. I do wish you had chosen to take the opportunity we offered in that post to include your two cents.
And by the way, Bill Streeter is a member of the Guild and is heavily involved with planning this event.
1 year ago
in Secrets and Lies on CourtneyWatson.net
Hi there. Thanks for mentioning our blog blast.
In response to Bob, Dave Mastio actually has been polite to some people when they've asked to be removed. But he's refused to remove other people here in STL, sometimes for days. And in some other cities he has refused to remove bloggers altogether until those bloggers cut their RSS feeds in protest or took legal action.
I'll admit I was getting a little snarky over on the STLBloggers site, but, you have to understand, this was AFTER Dave Mastio lied to me outright in an email, saying he'd contacted bloggers to tell them he was using their work when he hadn't, and AFTER he had refused repeatedly to remove the work of some of my friends from his site (we all tried contacting him directly before the discussion started on STLBloggers, but he didn't even respond to some people's requests to be removed.)
Also, Dana copied her lawyers on that email because she actually has the title Mamalogues trademarked. Trademark infringement is handled a bit differently than copyright infringement. She sent Mastio a standard notification of trademark infringement, which I don't think was out of line.
And you have to understand that the Post-Dispatch, WHICH JUST SCRAPPED DANA'S COLUMN, was considering a deal with BNN to host BNN's scraped content on the STLToday website.
Which means that the Post would have been hosting Dana's blog writing on their site, without paying her for it, after discontinuing her paid column supposedly because her writing was too blog-like for the paper.
In that context, I think limiting herself to a polite cease-and-desist was positively saintly of her.
In response to Bob, Dave Mastio actually has been polite to some people when they've asked to be removed. But he's refused to remove other people here in STL, sometimes for days. And in some other cities he has refused to remove bloggers altogether until those bloggers cut their RSS feeds in protest or took legal action.
I'll admit I was getting a little snarky over on the STLBloggers site, but, you have to understand, this was AFTER Dave Mastio lied to me outright in an email, saying he'd contacted bloggers to tell them he was using their work when he hadn't, and AFTER he had refused repeatedly to remove the work of some of my friends from his site (we all tried contacting him directly before the discussion started on STLBloggers, but he didn't even respond to some people's requests to be removed.)
Also, Dana copied her lawyers on that email because she actually has the title Mamalogues trademarked. Trademark infringement is handled a bit differently than copyright infringement. She sent Mastio a standard notification of trademark infringement, which I don't think was out of line.
And you have to understand that the Post-Dispatch, WHICH JUST SCRAPPED DANA'S COLUMN, was considering a deal with BNN to host BNN's scraped content on the STLToday website.
Which means that the Post would have been hosting Dana's blog writing on their site, without paying her for it, after discontinuing her paid column supposedly because her writing was too blog-like for the paper.
In that context, I think limiting herself to a polite cease-and-desist was positively saintly of her.
