Author: Barbara Iverson

• The lawsuit lists three specific times Dumke requested information from the city and was denied. (Read the full lawsuit here) In one case, Dumke requested Mayor Daley’s appointment calendar and schedule for November and December of 2009 and February through April of 2010. Typically, the Mayor’s office sends a list of Daley’s public meetings to reporters each day, but Dumke was wondering who Daley was meeting with in City Hall during those times. Jenny Hoyle, a spokeswoman with the city’s law department, said Dumke’s schedule request was too big, which is why it was rejected. She said Daley’s schedule is not maintained in a searchable database, therefore “every schedule includes information that needs to be redacted, including the personal contact information of the Mayor’s security detail—the Chicago police officers assigned to him for that day.”

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• Teaching Reporters: Replacing the backpack with the Smartphone

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• Crowdsourced Video Is On The Rise: Interview With Stroome

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• It’s been more than a year since I packed away my laptop computer, digital recorders, microphones, cables and cameras, and began covering Washington, D.C. with only my iPhone. When I first came to the top-rated all-news WTOP in 1997, the bag phone I carried weighed as much as a bowling ball. Reel-to-reel tape recorders (ask your parents) were the newsroom staple, but early versions of Cool Edit audio editing software signaled that the times, they were a-changin’.

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• A: Stroome has already been used by producers of the X-Games who used it to shoot UGC content in the parking lot outside the competition. The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival used it to solicit web films from aspiring comedians across the country. A group of students at Chicago Columbia College used the platform to document the recent the mayoral election in Chicago. The platform has also been used by dozens of sports enthusiasts, travel aficionados, bloggers and a more than a few civically minded journalists.

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• America’s tech decline: A reading guide – Computerworld

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• The U.S. imagines itself as the world’s leader in technology, and for good reason. American tech dominates many world markets. Yet just about every report that looks at where America is and where it is going sees this nation in decline or at risk of it. It’s a theme that has been picked up by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics. Both have warned recently that the nation is facing a “Sputnik moment,” with a shrinking share of the world’s technology export market. This view also arises as the U.S. continues to lead the world in new tech directions, such as cloud computing. U.S. tech firms are building highly energy-efficient data centers at shopping-mall-size scales to serve global customers.

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• Zoove: Something Better Than QR Codes | DigitalNext: A Blog on Emerging Media and Technology – Advertising Age

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