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Buffalo blogosphere

By alex | Published: 2/28/2006
Well, this is a round-about path. Lorna Peterson (on faculty at UB) dropped me a note indicating that fix Buffalo had referred to me as the “dean of Buffalo blogging.” (Oh, and I do like that, by the way. I’d put it in my tag-line, if I weren’t a deserter.) All of this pointing to […]
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Dewey Defeats Truman

By alex | Published: 2/27/2006
The Chicago Tribune joins a number of folks declaring the end of blogging as a phenomenon. This falling dead on the heels of Web 2.0. Thank goodness; it’s about time. Time to move on to The Next Big Thing. What? You don’t trust the Trib to correctly call the game? In an editorial titled Bloggy, […]
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Article on kids in MySpace

By alex | Published: 1/12/2006
I was interviewed for a short article on MySpace for the Buffalo News (thanks to David for the reminder). The moral panic was kept to a minimum, I think. In the article I suggest that parents should be searching the web for their kids’ social spaces, and that this is not the moral equivalent of […]
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CFP Session: Pressing forward

By alex | Published: 12/30/2005
I’m looking forward to the Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference coming up this May in DC. This is an initial tender of interest, but would anyone like to collaborate on a panel on blogging, wikis, and their relationship to laws that have traditionally been the purview of “the press”: libel, shield laws, etc.? Any “blawg” […]
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