Archive for June, 2008

Lawyer gets spanked over reader comments on site

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in commenting | No Comments »

People, get it through your heads: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives online publishers lots of protection from liability involving reader comments and other user-generated content. So I really ... Read more..

What teaching my daughter to drive has taught me

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in general | No Comments »

Today marks one week since my daughter got her driver's license. She was late getting her permit, so she's late getting her license. Not that I'm complaining. She needed the ... Read more..

The line between ivory tower and careful reporting?

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in general | 1 Comment »

I had an interesting exchange with a colleague at work today that involved whether to blog about a survey in a popular magazine. My colleague didn't want to give the ... Read more..

Google Street View contest: What sidelines readers?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in general | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, the blog I write for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was No. 1 for the first time ever, with more than 10,200 page views. That was the day we invited ... Read more..

Online Britannica set to go ‘wiki’ on its assets

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in general | 1 Comment »

NPR reported this morning about the plans at the Online Encyclopedia Britannica "by allowing readers to make edits and contributions to the encyclopedia." The news has been swirling around for ... Read more..

Huffington Post — why the onerous registration process?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in general | No Comments »

I just got my Google alert to a mention of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Huffington Post blog. Our web site featured a reader's comment yesterday about the gay ... Read more..

Pew study: Gains in social media for political info

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in general | 1 Comment »

The obvious news from Pew's latest study is the huge increase in the percentage of people using the Internet to get information about politics -- that number is 46 percent. ... Read more..

Someone tell CNN that tornado photo is mis-captioned

Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in general | 1 Comment »

Word is getting around about the tornado photo from Iowa that I wrote about on Friday, the one that originally ran on June 10 in the Mason City Globe Gazette ... Read more..