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New Calif. law blocks school paper censorshipToday

Jeb Bing in the lead editorial of today's Pleasanton Weekly: New law blocks school newspaper censorship.

I haven't seen any coverage of this new California law, so I'll publish an excerpt of the editorial:

Freedom of the press is always a choice topic in high school journalism classes, especially among those who have responsibility for producing the school's newspaper. So many cheered a few weeks ago when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Teacher Protection Law, a measure sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association to shield high school and college journalism advisers from discipline or removal from their positions for refusing to censor stories published in student newspapers. The new state law, SB 1370, pushed through the legislature by State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), specifically prohibits a school employer from dismissing, suspending, disciplining, reassigning, transferring or otherwise retaliating against an employee solely for acting to protect a pupil engaged in conduct protected by statute, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution. Besides the CNPA, which this newspaper belongs to, the measure was also supported by the California Teachers Association and the ACLU. It would also clarify that a graduating student can challenge a disciplinary action for engaging in prot

The Conversation: visual storytellingYesterday

This looks like a worthy event, and I'll try my best to make it: journalist-author Scott Kirsner is one of the organizers of a new conference. (Tiffany Shlain of Webbies fame is the other organizer.)

What: The Conversation: New Distribution Channels, New Tools, and the Future of Visual Storytelling. Pioneers at the forefront of change in cinema, video, games, media and technology are coming together to share ideas, insights, and innovations. Our focus is on new tools, new distribution channels, and new rules.

When: Oct. 17-18, this coming Friday and Saturday.

Where: Pacific Film Archive theater, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA   

Registration: $149.

Schedule/agenda is here.

Scott is also doing an event next Sunday at the Hillside Club in Berkeley to promote his new book, "Inventing the Movies." $15 admission. 

Emily competes in the Triathlon at Pacific GroveYesterday

Emily's first triathlon from JD Lasica on Vimeo.

With the Ironman triathlon being held today in Hawaii, I thought it would be appropriate to showcase an interview I did with Emily Goligoski, a friend who just ran her first triathlon last month, the Triathlon at Pacific Grove — Olympic Distance along the Monterey Peninsula. In this 9 1/2-minute video, she talks about her preparation, her training and conditioning with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's  Team in Training, her motivation, and her accomplishment one sun-splashed day along the California coast. She raised $3,461 in the event.

Watch video in H.264 QuickTime on Ourmedia at original 480 pixels wide
Watch video in Flash on Vimeo

Streaming Media West videosYesterday

About 25 videos of the recent Streaming Media West conference sessions and keynotes are now online. Above is the embedded video of our 45-minute panel on The Power of Personal Media with Chris Brogan, me, Scott Kabat of Pure Digital, Schlomo Rabinowitz and Irina Slutsky. 

BADcamp agendaOctober 10

Here's the agenda for the Bay Area Drupal Camp (known by the slick acronym BADcamp '08) at UC Berkeley this weekend. I'll be there.