Buzzworthy

SeattlePI.com senior online producer Brian Chin's blog covers technology, politics and social trends — plus stuff that's just too strange to make up.

C-SPAN and copyright

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I always love it when the collaborative, “open-source” fact-checking made possible by the Internet actually works. Case in point: when Xeni Jardin posted something on Boing Boing wondering why YouTube removed user-submitted recordings of Stephen Colbert’s infamous talk at the White House Press Corps dinner, her readers’ answers cleared up a number of common misconceptions about what C-SPAN is and does. [Read More]

Off and running

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Two more reader-written blogs joined our lineup this week. The No-Intelligencer is is devoted to award-winning humorist Dave Fox’s “completely useless rantings about Seattle and life on Planet Earth.” Seattle Running Life, meanwhile, covers “the stuff that bonds all runners together in an extended family of storied dreamers.” [Read More]
Categories: Site insights

How to survive ID theft

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Consumerist posted a handy, step-by-step guide of “hard-earned personal tips and tricks” submitted by a contributor who had her identity stolen. [Read More]

The press bites back

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The Bush administration’s efforts to “de-certify” the news media as a conduit for information has sparked the rise of alternative information sources — including leaks — that officials can’t control, Jack Shafer writes for Slate: [Read More]
Categories: Zeitgeist watch

How Brit journos see us

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It’s always interesting to look at your industry through the fresh eyes of an outsider. The U.K. Press Gazette shares the surprising discoveries British journalists made when they went to work in New York newsrooms. Among the insights: the laid-back dress code, an intense emphasis on fact-checking, and the fact that few U.S. journos take notes in shorthand. (During 16 years in this business, I don’t think I’ve ever met another journalist who took shorthand.) [Read More]
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