Archive for July, 2008

Minilink: Nas Disses Fox, Media on Colbert

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I'd just sat down to pound out a post describing Nas' awesome appearance on the Colbert Report, but Crooks and Liars saved me the trouble. Let's just say the hip hopper disses the media in general and Fox specifically. Follow the link for full lyrics, which are on-point. It was the ...

Job at Hunter College, Moving, and More

Monday, July 7th, 2008

As you may have noticed, we at ShoutingLoudly generally don't discuss our personal lives in our posts, major developments excepted. Well, this is a major developments kind of summer for me, so here are some details. 1. I got a tenure-track job in the Hunter College Department of Film and Media ...

Fair Use Best Practices Guide for Online Video

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The folks at American University have found another group of folks who need some clarity around copyright law and fair use, producing a "best practices" guide for online video producers. This is yet another in a series of projects designed to empower specific kinds of content creators to make meaningful use ...

Community blogs as organizations: bigger is a whole lot better

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

One of my enduring research interests is in the development of blogosphere into an organizing space for communities-of-interest. Blogging is generally treated as citizen journalism, with an assumption that the blog serves as a sort of personal megaphone, echoing out into cyberspace to greater or lesser (usually much lesser) ...