Michiko Kaku­tani reviews Bob Woodward’s new book, State of Denial, in the Sun­day NY Times: A Por­trait of Bush as a Vic­tim of His Own Certitude.

Matt Bai in the Sun­day NY Times Mag­a­zine: The Inside Agi­ta­tor. Is Howard Dean will­ing to destroy the Demo­c­ra­tic Party in order to save it?

Just got back from the Cal­i­for­nia First Amend­ment Coali­tion event at the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism, where I met Milo Radulovich (pic­tured above), who rose to fame in the 1950s after Edward R. Mur­row called out Joseph McCarthy. Radulovich’s story was the cen­ter­piece of the 2005 George Clooney film “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

Also met Daniel Ells­berg, who authored and released the Pen­ta­gon Papers — about 30 years after the last time I met him at Rutgers.

Here are nine pho­tos from the event.

Par­tic­i­pated on the panel “Blog­ging and Cit­i­zen Jour­nal­ism” with Daniel Wein­traub, Lisa Stone, Kevin Bankston and mod­er­a­tor Dan Gill­mor, talk­ing about the rise of par­tic­i­pa­tory media.

Mark Cuban had this the other day: The Com­ing Dra­matic Decline of Youtube.

What is it about youtube.com that has made it so suc­cess­ful so quickly ? Is it the amaz­ing qual­ity of user gen­er­ated con­tent ? Is it a broad­band fueled obses­sion with watch­ing short videos ?

No & No.

Youtube’s rapid ascen­sion to the top of the traf­fic ranks can be attrib­uted to two and only two reasons:

1. Free Host­ing from any 3rd Party site
Hey, why pay for band­width for a video if you dont have to ? A blog, a myspace page, an email, any web­site. Just throw in some html in Youtube.com foots the bill for band­width. Sure you are lim­ited by size of file, but so what. Just chop it up into parts 1 through N. Its fast, easy and free.

Come to our web­site and use our video host­ing ser­vices, we can party like its 1999 all over again !

2. Copy­righted music and video. …

This so reminds me of the early days of Nap­ster. They were the first to tell you it wasnt ille­gal. They didnt host any­thing but an index to link to all the ille­gal down­load­ers. Youtube doesnt upload any­thing ille­gal and will take down what­ever you ask them to. Sounds legit right ? …

And the New York Times fol­lows up Sat­ur­day with this: YouTube’s Video Poker.

YouTube has also become a vast repos­i­tory of video taken with­out per­mis­sion from tele­vi­sion shows and movies, not to men­tion home movies con­structed — with nary a cent paid in roy­al­ties — from com­mer­cial music and imagery.

Mr. Hur­ley was sur­rounded by curi­ous media exec­u­tives at Allen & Company’s annual Sun Val­ley mogulfest in July. They won­dered: friend or foe? Is he earnestly work­ing to make YouTube and its exu­ber­ant users con­form to the exist­ing stan­dards of copy­right law and con­trac­tual oblig­a­tions? Or is he cyn­i­cally flout­ing the law to enable YouTube to grow rapidly, cal­cu­lat­ing that he will be able to cut a more advan­ta­geous deal later, or per­haps sell the com­pany to some­one else who will be able to sort through the mess of liabilities?

Here’s a note I’ve been send­ing out to col­leagues, which was reprinted on Poynter’s E-Media Tid­bits today:

I’m work­ing with Dan Gill­mor of the Cen­ter for Cit­i­zen Media on a Knight Foun­da­tion project lay­ing out the prin­ci­ples of cit­i­zen journalism.

One of the arti­cles we’re work­ing on is a roundup of jour­nal­is­tic screw-ups — per­haps the most embar­rass­ing fac­tual mis­take you’ve made in your career, or a funny doozie of a report­ing or edit­ing error, or a real humdinger by some­one else.

Any­thing come to mind? If so, let us know if we can pub­lish it, and if you’d pre­fer your name used or not. The idea is to point out that even the best pro­fes­sional jour­nal­ists are human, too. This could help cit­i­zen jour­nal­ists avoid some of the mis­takes we’ve made along the way.

This could cer­tainly apply to blog­gers as well. So email me if you want to pass along an anec­dote about a notable gaffe.

Reblogged from Jonny Goldstein’s new Rein­vent­ing Tele­vi­sion blog

Jason Cala­ca­nis announced new video upload and play­back on the Netscape social-news por­tal that AOL owns. It transcodes video to Flash, and it also lets you link to the orig­i­nal for­mat, and it transcodes your video to an iPod-ready video for­mat. It’s still in alpha, but it’s an excit­ing development.

San Jose Mer­cury News:

A Manhattan-based soft­ware com­pany thinks it has an idea for steal­ing mar­ket share from YouTube. They dis­trib­ute free soft­ware that lets any­one — even a bum­bling, bloated Hol­ly­wood stu­dio — cre­ate an online video-sharing community.

To see the Kick­Apps con­cept in action, check out National Lampoon’s Knuck­le­head video. Users can sub­mit videos in three cat­e­gories: “x sports,” “drinkie party vids” and “show us your butt.”

Doc Searls has a Flickr photo set and Tab­blo photo set of the protest rally in front of the Santa Bar­bara News-Press headquarters.

Here’s how you can sub­mit a nom­i­na­tion to the Vlog­gies (videoblog­ging awards), to be handed out Nov. 4 in San Francisco.

San Jose Mer­cury News: A high-tech bug could spy on you. Civil lib­er­tar­i­ans trou­bled by tracer used in leak probe. Hewlett-Packard’s inves­ti­ga­tion into leaks has put the spot­light on elec­tronic track­ing tech­nolo­gies that just about any­one can use to try to spy on people.