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We the Media

Author: Dan Gillmor

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopolyon the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover. In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news.

We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle:

Consumers learn how they can become producers of the news. Gillmor lays out the tools of the grassroots journalist's trade, including personal Web journals (called weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. He also illustrates how, in this age of media consolidation and diminished reporting, to roll your own news, drawing from the array of sources available online and even over the phone.

Newsmakers politicians, business executives, celebrities get a wake-up call. The control that newsmakers enjoyed in the top-down world of Big Media is seriously undermined in the Internet Age. Gillmor shows newsmakers how to successfully play by the new rules and shift from control to engagement.

Journalists discover that the new grassroots journalism presents opportunity as well as challenge to their profession. One of the first mainstream journalists to have a blog, Gillmor says, "My readers know more than I do, and that's a good thing." In We the Media, he makes the case to his colleagues that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant.

At its core, We the Media is a book about people. People like Glenn Reynolds, a law professor whose blog postings on the intersection of technology and liberty garnered him enough readers and influence that he became a source for professional journalists. Or Ben Chandler, whose upset Congressional victory was fueled by contributions that came in response to ads on a handful of political blogs. Or Iraqi blogger Zayed, whose Healing Irag blog (healingiraq.blogspot.com) scooped Big Media. Or acridrabbit, who inspired an online community to become investigative reporters and discover that the dying Kaycee Nichols sad tale was a hoax. Give the people tools to make the news, We the Media asserts, and they will.

Journalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media that prevails today. We the Media casts light on the future of journalism, and invites us all to be part of it.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	IX
1.	From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond	1
2.	The Read-Write Web	23
3.	The Gates Come Down	44
4.	Newsmakers Turn the Tables	66
5.	The Consent of the Governed	88
6.	Professional Journalists Join the Conversation	110
7.	The Former Audience Joins the Party	136
8.	Next Steps	158
9.	Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust	174
10.	Here Come the Judges (and Lawyers)	191
11.	The Empires Strike Back	209
12.	Making Our Own News	236
	Epilogue and Acknowledgments	243
	Web Site Directory	251
	Glossary	259
	Notes	261
	Index	281

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LDAP Directrories Explained: An Introduction and Analysis

Author: Brian Arkills

Directory technology promises to solve the problem of decentralized information that has arisen with the explosion of distributed computing. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a set of protocols that has become the Internet standard for accessing information directories. Until now, however, those curious about LDAP had no introductory source to learn how the technology can help them centrally manage information and reduce the cost of computing services.

LDAP Directories Explained provides technical managers and those new to directory services with a fundamental introduction to LDAP. This concise guide examines how the technology works and gives an overview of the most successful directory products in an easy-to-reference format.

Key topics include:

• An overview of LDAP, including how directories differ from databases


• The LDAP namespace, with an overview of DNS, LDAP object structure, and LDAP object naming


• Client LDAP operations, including directory-enabled services and applications, searches, and the LDAP protocol


• LDAP schema, including object classes, attributes, syntaxes, matching rules, and more


• Directory management, including directory integration strategies, metadirectories, security, and more


• LDAP vendors OpenLDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, and Directory Server


• A case study of Stanford University's directory architecture, which illustrates how integral an LDAP directory can become to a business

If you are an information technology manager, LDAP Directories Explained will provide the technical foundation you need to make soundbusiness decisions about LDAP. If you're a developer, this straightforward reference will bring you quickly up to speed on LDAP and directories.
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