Emboldening
Pres. Bush really made "emboldened" happen. Remember when he first said it and everyone thought it was a made-up word a la The Simpsons' "embiggened"? At least three academic panelists at the conference this weekend have used it.
Conferences
More from Yale
Jeff Jarvis (paraphrase): "The future of news is entrepreneurial, not institutional. ... Journalism becomes a task rather than a profession, as anybody can perform acts of journalism."
The language of crisis
Fascinating conference today and yesterday at Yale Law School on new media, journalism and economic models for the future. A combination of the usual suspects (Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, Steve Brill) and a variety of journalists, law professors, economists, sociologists ... One of the great things the conference is doing is enacting its precepts with a live video stream, live blog and constant Twitter updates - it's even creating a...