November 2005

Chomp & Stomp chili festival, Cabbagetown, GA

Click here for images of the 2005 Cabbagetown Chomp & Stomp chili cook-off and bluegrass festival. Were you there? Send images to the Flickr Group: Chomp & Stomp 2005.

November 5th, 2005

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Atlanta + Food

Notes on SPJ CyberEthics seminar

The Society of Professional Journalists hosted a seminar on CyberEthics in Atlanta on November 3, 2005. The speakers: * Brant Houston, executive director, Investigative Reporters and Editors & NICAR(moderator) David Milliron, database editor, the Atlanta Journal Constitution Dr. Barry Hollander, associate professor, Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications, the University of Georgia Here are a few key elements [...]

November 3rd, 2005

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Journalism & the Media

Committee of Concerned Journalists visit CL

The Committee for Concerned Journalists did an in-house session today at CL, with Poynter alums Butch Ward and Gregory Favre leading sessions on verification & objectivity, among other topics. Here are some of the more interesting threads of conversation from the two-day session. Day One Do we ever consider telling people what we don’t know in a [...]

November 2nd, 2005

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Journalism & the Media

Netflix Class Action Settlement; More DVDs for You!

Member of Netflix before January 15, 2005? Fill out this form to reap the class action suit benefits. Current members get an upgrade (for most, 4 rentals at a time) for a month; past members (without a current subscription) get a free month of service (if you sign up again?; it ain’t clear). From Netflix via email: [...]

November 2nd, 2005

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Interweb

NYTimes.com “Why You Should Pay” article fails

This is a joke, right? At the bottom of Steve Outing’s excellent E&P piece on citJ, as he calls it; E&P features a shoutout and a link to a NYTimes article …. … that you can’t read unless you pay for it. It would cost me $3.95 to figure out why I should pay to read [...]

November 1st, 2005

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Journalism & the Media