webcred. About last weekend’s Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility conference.

but Jay Rosen’s piece in his blog, Pressthink, is likely the most important writing about weblogs OR journalism that we’ll get all year: Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over. Many chewy bits to read and re-read in there. Bottom line – journalism is a practice.

is running a good story by Guy Dixon: How copyright could be killing culture. It’s focused on the documentary film “Eyes on the Prize”, which featured a great deal of archival footage that they only purchased 5-year rights to include. For those who follow “copyfight” related stories there’s likely nothing new in the article, but for people with more of a passing interest, the article is a good summary of the issues at play, and at stake.

updates us on the current goings-on in the Evolution/Creationism/Intelligent Design battles in the US: The new Monkey Trial (click-through subscription req’d).

this month they have opened up to the public an online interview with Bruce Sterling. It’s called State of the World 2005 and the interviewer is Jon Lebkowsky, himself a longtime online community activist and pundit. The interview is proceding apace here: inkwell.vue, Topic 234. Go take a look.