I guess I've been more influential than I thought ...

RNC Readies for Anarchy

It's that time again: the quadrennial alarm over real and imagined (if not plainly hyperbolic) dangers from national convention protesters and their dark and dangerous siblings, the "anarchists," or "black bloc" brethren, who are always expected but never really end up coming to the party, at least not in anticipated numbers or force.

theamericanconservative.com

After doing a presentation, and discussing my audience and outline with the professor, I decided to change the focus of my paper, one week before it's due, to using my experience as a community journalist at the Republican National Convention as a way to explore the militarization of domestic law enforcement and COPS grants/community policing. I am not writing a dissertation, after all, like she said, and was trying to do too much with it. This makes it much easier to write.

I'm doing research on the specifics of what happened in Saint Paul, and need to reference some of the articles I wrote for Newsvine/MSNBC.com. Duck Duck Go isn't the greatest search engine but they don't track my searches like Google does. While I'm not finding exactly what I need, there are some pretty interesting websites showing up. Apparently, my column has been rated and reviewed nearly a thousand times on various websites, according to this aggregate site. I didn't know I had this kind of audience outside of the platform. haha

Thank you alternative media for using my photographs without asking for permission or notifying me. American Conservative, thank you. Thanks democraticunderground.com (but a genuine thank you for reporting my story that the national news media passed on because it wasn't salacious enough but probably you still shouldn't copy my work, you lazy journalists). I sense that there's mutual issue that you should probably work together on instead of trying to gain political advantage over each other.

If I found two cases in simple search where I wasn't looking for it, there are probably dozens more on the convention alone. These are all rights reserved on Flickr, so does this really fall under Fair Use? It's news, yes, which would fall under it, but these articles aren't about the 2008 convention, they're using the 2008 convention to draw parallels to whatever convention they're currently discussing.