I’m off to Gainesville, Florida, tomor­row morn­ing (tak­ing BART to SFO Air­port at 4:14 am — ugh) for three days, so won’t be check­ing email and will only spo­rad­i­cally update this blog. Here’s the event:

The Third Annual Sym­po­sium on Con­verged Jour­nal­ism at the Uni­ver­sity of Florida.

Con­fer­ence details (Flash required).

When: Thurs­day, April 1, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Reitz Union Auditorium/Cinema, 2nd floor, Uni­ver­sity of Florida cam­pus, Gainesville, FL

What: Meet and min­gle with work­ing jour­nal­ists from a vari­ety of pro­fes­sional back­grounds and hear what they have to say about the world of online jour­nal­ism today. Stu­dents and oth­ers are encour­aged to talk one-on-one with these pro­fes­sion­als and to ask ques­tions in a pub­lic forum.

Cost: Free. Every­one is wel­come, and you can come and go at any time dur­ing the day.

Pan­els:
9 — 10 a.m.: How Broad­cast, Online and Print Jour­nal­ists Work Together
10:30 a.m. — Noon: Pho­to­jour­nal­ism in a War Zone
2 — 3 p.m.: Blog­ging and Jour­nal­ism
3:30 — 4:30 p.m.: Enter­tain­ment Journalism

I’ll be mod­er­at­ing the panel on blog­ging and jour­nal­ism. Pan­elists are Sheila Lennon of projo.com, Kevin Rod­er­ick of LA Observed and Jen­nifer Balderama of the Wash­ing­ton Post.

You can see bios of each speaker here (PDF).

Eliz­a­beth Spiers and Dirck Hal­stead, pub­lisher of The Dig­i­tal Jour­nal­ist pho­to­jour­nal­ism mag­a­zine, will also be speak­ing, I’ll be assess­ing stu­dents’ resumes with Mark Glaser, and Dave Winer and Buzz Brugge­mann (who’s dri­ving down from Orlando) will be in the audi­ence. Sounds like fun.

Brew­ster Kahle, founder of the Inter­net Archive, sent this announce­ment on Friday:

The Live music archive just received its 10,000th con­cert record­ing! Con­grat­u­la­tions and thanks to the etree com­mu­nity and the artists and bands that have a made this a fan­tas­tic repos­i­tory of cre­ative works.

A few stats:

Now stored: 10,000 shows, 150,000 tracks, from almost 500 bands, in 18 months. About 10 Ter­abytes of infor­ma­tion on 40 Ter­abytes of disk space on 60 linux boxes.

Almost 1,000 upload­ers, 300 upload­ers have uploaded more than 10 shows …

Usage: about 1‘Petabyte of con­certs have been down­loaded (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). Or about 1 Mil­lion shows.

Cur­rently 400megabits/sec of out­bound bandwidth.

In the next cou­ple of weeks:

— Adding some Grate­ful Dead con­certs because their pol­icy allows
non-commercial hosting.

— Con­vert­ing most of the con­certs to mp3/ogg and full con­cert zip files

Longer term wish list:
– Broaden the col­lec­tion into lots of dif­fer­ent types of music
– Inter­net Radio inter­face
– Improved web­site by search­ing, speed, browsing

New from MediaChannel.org:

CBS News Chief Sees Opin­ion Rise Above Fact-Based Report­ing. Bias in the news media isn’t the prob­lem, says CBS News Pres­i­dent Andrew Hey­ward. So what is? “First, opin­ion has begun to drive out fact-based report­ing — espe­cially on cable tele­vi­sion. … Sec­ond, tele­vi­sion never did nuance well in the first place — and nuance is also being dri­ven out.” (

Richard Clarke and the Media Fail­ures of 9–11. As Richard Clarke points to intel­li­gence fail­ures and apol­o­gizes to 9–11 fam­i­lies for the government’s inabil­ity to pre­vent the attack, who was going to raise the issue of the media’s fail­ure to dis­cuss these issues in detail before this past week?

Dan Rosen­baum has the skinny on worst Time Inc.‘s plan to launch a news­stand mag­a­zine — exclu­sively dis­trib­uted through Wal-Marts — called All You. Here’s the NY Times on the new rag, er, mag.

K. Paul Mal­lasch has launched a new com­mu­nity site called Wars and Rumors of Wars. kpaul’s using Scoop and says he wants “to try to grow another site that will gen­er­ate con­tent on its own and be easy to man­age.” Looks good so far.

Finance expert Andrew Tobias — who also hap­pens to be trea­surer of the Demo­c­ra­tic National Com­mit­tee — quotes from
my review of Trackle on Sunday.

Not to be missed: John Bat­telle on Why Topix Is Dif­fer­ent: Toward A Sus­tain­able Model For Net Media Companies.

Mary Hod­der at Nap­ster­i­za­tion: Why News and Tech­ni­cal DRM Don’t Mix.

Google has a per­son­al­ized search engine in beta. But I’m not crazy about the pro­file choices. I’m not inter­ested in base­ball, I’m inter­ested one base­ball team. It’s still early, though, and they’ll fig­ure it out.

John Bat­telle offers his analy­sis here.

Cory D. points to a new Cato study that con­cludes file shar­ing is hav­ing lit­tle effect on album sales. Here’s the study (PDF).