Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Homeward bound

It's 4:15 here on the East Coast (in White Plains, which is neither), and I'll start heading home when a cab picks me up about an hour from now.

See ya on the West Side.

Toward a journalism of disclosure

As it happens I'm reading Deborah Branscum's latest, about companies "bribing" reporters (starting with interesting differences between Swedish and American traditions on matters of honesty), on a side trip to New York that's paid for (flight costs and hotel) by a company that wanted to gather experts on a subject of interest to them, and about which I they are so uninterested in publicity that they had every expert sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement). So I'm giving them the opposite of publicity.

Still, as always, Deborah's making me think. Especially with her last question:

What's your take? Anybody try to "bribe" you recently?

Before you answer, consider this: If you're a blogger, you're a journalist. Literally. Don't let the Journalist label stick only to people who write for money. Or for journals other than blogs. Blogs are journals. If you're a blogger, journalism concerns you.

Educational leverage

James Torio's Master's thesis (that's a .pdf) at Syracuse has four chapters (1, 2, 3, 4) that are serialized in his blog. One sample, from the 4th chapter (his latest blog entry), on Robert Scoble:

One guy and his Blog, doing more real good for his company than any multi-million dollar ad agency campaign could ever hope to achieve.