Comments on: Two Stupid Stories for Friday http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/ David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He has spoken in the U.S. and Canada about emerging trends, website usability and management, digital experience planning, and managing techie staff, and has been published in many library-related journals. David writes the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter. David maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joshua m. neff http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-8549 joshua m. neff Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/#comment-8549 <i>Time Magazine actually called Second Life a website. That’s like calling Dungeons and Dragons a book.</i> As a social software geek and an old school RPG player, that line made me smile. A lot. Time Magazine actually called Second Life a website. That’s like calling Dungeons and Dragons a book.

As a social software geek and an old school RPG player, that line made me smile. A lot.

]]> By: joshua m. neff http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-25748 joshua m. neff Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/#comment-25748 <i>Time Magazine actually called Second Life a website. That’s like calling Dungeons and Dragons a book.</i> As a social software geek and an old school RPG player, that line made me smile. A lot. Time Magazine actually called Second Life a website. That’s like calling Dungeons and Dragons a book.

As a social software geek and an old school RPG player, that line made me smile. A lot.

]]> By: royce http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-8535 royce Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:57:25 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/#comment-8535 Sure they call second life a website, but the other stuff they say about sl is pretty much dead on. the only thing my friends and I can agree on about second life is how cool it is to fly. Sure they call second life a website, but the other stuff they say about sl is pretty much dead on.

the only thing my friends and I can agree on about second life is how cool it is to fly.

]]> By: royce http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-25747 royce Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/#comment-25747 Sure they call second life a website, but the other stuff they say about sl is pretty much dead on. the only thing my friends and I can agree on about second life is how cool it is to fly. Sure they call second life a website, but the other stuff they say about sl is pretty much dead on.

the only thing my friends and I can agree on about second life is how cool it is to fly.

]]> By: dig deeper http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-8532 dig deeper Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:21:07 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/#comment-8532 The NCAA/blogger-journalist story is much more interesting than that. See the writer's blog, http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/bennett/blog.html and the Chicago Tribune editorial linked in the piece you linked to ('Bloggers get the boot', 6/24/2007). The NCAA circulated a memo to the press box saying "no blogging". The writer's editors saw this as a restriction on their first amendment rights to report on and analyze the game and instructed him otherwise. The editorial in the Chicago Tribune points out that courts have previously upheld unofficial broadcasters' rights to report what happens in a game after it happens, that a public event is not the creative property of the broadcasters. So what's at stake here is not the NCAA-vs-bloggers but big-corporations-vs-the-constitution. The NCAA/blogger-journalist story is much more interesting than that. See the writer’s blog, http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/bennett/blog.html and the Chicago Tribune editorial linked in the piece you linked to (‘Bloggers get the boot’, 6/24/2007).

The NCAA circulated a memo to the press box saying “no blogging”. The writer’s editors saw this as a restriction on their first amendment rights to report on and analyze the game and instructed him otherwise. The editorial in the Chicago Tribune points out that courts have previously upheld unofficial broadcasters’ rights to report what happens in a game after it happens, that a public event is not the creative property of the broadcasters.

So what’s at stake here is not the NCAA-vs-bloggers but big-corporations-vs-the-constitution.

]]> By: dig deeper http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-25746 dig deeper Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/07/13/two-stupid-stories-for-friday/#comment-25746 The NCAA/blogger-journalist story is much more interesting than that. See the writer's blog, http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/bennett/blog.html and the Chicago Tribune editorial linked in the piece you linked to ('Bloggers get the boot', 6/24/2007). The NCAA circulated a memo to the press box saying "no blogging". The writer's editors saw this as a restriction on their first amendment rights to report on and analyze the game and instructed him otherwise. The editorial in the Chicago Tribune points out that courts have previously upheld unofficial broadcasters' rights to report what happens in a game after it happens, that a public event is not the creative property of the broadcasters. So what's at stake here is not the NCAA-vs-bloggers but big-corporations-vs-the-constitution. The NCAA/blogger-journalist story is much more interesting than that. See the writer’s blog, http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/bennett/blog.html and the Chicago Tribune editorial linked in the piece you linked to (‘Bloggers get the boot’, 6/24/2007).

The NCAA circulated a memo to the press box saying “no blogging”. The writer’s editors saw this as a restriction on their first amendment rights to report on and analyze the game and instructed him otherwise. The editorial in the Chicago Tribune points out that courts have previously upheld unofficial broadcasters’ rights to report what happens in a game after it happens, that a public event is not the creative property of the broadcasters.

So what’s at stake here is not the NCAA-vs-bloggers but big-corporations-vs-the-constitution.

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