{"id":283,"date":"2003-09-08T23:47:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T04:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-08-21T23:53:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T04:53:54","slug":"weekly-listserv-journal-%e2%80%93-rss-ethics-for-online-media-and-camera-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2003\/weekly-listserv-journal-%e2%80%93-rss-ethics-for-online-media-and-camera-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly listserv journal \u2013 RSS, ethics for online media, and camera phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a class project I’ve been reading the Online-News mailing list<\/a> and responding to some of the issues and discussion brought up there. <\/em><\/p>\n

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I went ahead and looked up some info on RSS.\u00a0 It seems pretty interesting-details can be found at http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tech\/rss<\/a>.\u00a0 RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, a common format for content you want others to be able to pick up through their news sites, blogs, and web applications.\u00a0 It’s a flavor of XML, which allows you to set up different channels and different items within the channel, with some other standard tags like creator and description.\u00a0 It’s nice because it’s an open format, and it seems to be getting pretty big.\u00a0 Like so many other things, there’s a set of dueling specifications for it, though some are backwards compatible with each other which is nice.\u00a0 If more sites keep using it, I’m sure Microsoft will ad their own proprietary version to Office any day now.<\/p>\n

One thing that’s interesting about this list is that people use it to announce papers, books, and projects.\u00a0 For example, there’s “The current status and potential development of online news consumption: A structural approach<\/a>” by An Nguyen at http:\/\/www.firstmonday.org\/issues\/issue8_9\/nguyen\/index.html<\/a>, which makes the bland assertion that more news web sites are going up and more people are getting their news from the web.\u00a0 That one was mentioned by someone who had read it; other times the writers themselves make announcements like Robert Berkman, who co-wrote Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals.\u00a0 This book likes kind of interesting, just because I’ve read a few journalism ethics books and they usually don’t have much on online journalism.\u00a0 There are some important issues which are particularly pressing online as opposed to print–like reader privacy.<\/p>\n

In other threads, some people have been discussing a poster called “JOE BIALEK” who seems to have appeared out of nowhere to write huge diatribes.\u00a0 The name looked familiar to me and some of the other posters confirmed my suspicion-he’s a troll from Usenet and other forums who tries to start fights.\u00a0 There was an interesting meta-thread about how these sorts of things happen.\u00a0 Another thread was about the use of mobile phone cameras by reporters.\u00a0 The first poster talked about how great it could be, but others quickly added there could be ethical concerns.\u00a0 It might not be a great idea to let your reporter (who’s not a trained news photographer) take insensitive pictures of victims and post them without going through an editor first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a class project I’ve been reading the Online-News mailing list and responding to some of the issues and discussion brought up there. I went ahead and looked up some info on RSS.\u00a0 It seems pretty interesting-details can be found at http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tech\/rss.\u00a0 RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, a common format for content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[451,65,450,449,384,448,57,753,82,416],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-camera-phones","tag-ethics","tag-listserv","tag-mailing-list","tag-microsoft","tag-online-news","tag-online-journalism","tag-photography","tag-rss","tag-xml"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}