USNews.com: “The CIA’s Publications Review Board is sending out terse reminders to agency veterans reminding them of the rules requiring that any writings–even blogs–must first get agency approval.” Continue Reading
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Key Features Enhance Website Design and Usability
Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them, by Donna Maurer. Continue Reading
CALL Conference Blog Launched
Steve Matthews, Michael Lines and Connie Crosby have launched a first ever blog for the CALL conference. [thanks Connie] Continue Reading
Advocacy Groups Support Protections for Blogger’s Speech on the Net
Op-Ed in Roll Call by CDT Officials Supports Protecting Bloggers without Opening Soft Money Loopholes in the Campaign Finance Laws: “H.R. 4900 protects bloggers and small speakers far better than does H.R 1606, and by design, it does not create other loopholes in the campaign finance laws. Those who truly want to protect bloggers and… Continue Reading
State of the News Media 2006
Project for Excellence in Journalism: “The State of the News Media 2006 is the third in our annual effort to provide a comprehensive look each year at the state of American journalism. Our goal is to put in one place as much original and aggregated data as possible about each of the major journalism sectors… Continue Reading
House Cmte. Approves Exemption For Bloggers From FEC Regulations
H.R. 1606, To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude communications over the Internet from the definition of public communication, was passed by the House Administration Committee today, by voice vote. Press release: “The Committee on House Administration (CHA) by unanimous voice vote Thursday approved legislation that would free bloggers and other… Continue Reading
Which Newspapers Blog Best?
According to surveys conducted by NYU Prof. Jay Rosen and members of his blogging 101 class, the list of Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S. is topped by the Houston Chronicle. Continue Reading
Advocacy Group Proposes Legislation to Protection Online Political Speech
“CDT today offered a legislative proposal that would exempt the vast majority of individual speakers on the Internet from campaign finance laws, without creating loopholes that could be easily exploited by state political parties and large donors. CDT drafted the proposal in response to mounting efforts in the House of Representatives to pass a measure… Continue Reading
The Mashup of MSM and Blogs
New York Times: That Which We Call a Blog… Referenced in the article is the recent Technorati posting on how many blogs the site is now tracking. Continue Reading
Blogging, Business Models and E-Commerce
Blogs to Riches – The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom, by Clive Thomson, New York Magazine. Related references, all from the 2/20/2006 issue of New York Magazine: Linkology – How the Most-Linked-To Blogs Relate (see also this related graph, which is in PDF) A Timeline of the History of Blogging Five Blogs to… Continue Reading
Blogger Reports on Rare Weekend Email About Upcoming Briefing on Spy Program
The Brad Blog posted the text of an e-mail message to House Judiciary Committee members and staff alerting them to an “Unclassified briefing by DOJ on NSA surveillance program” to “be held at 3 pm on Monday, Feb 13th.” Escalating bipartisan congressional demands to be provided with more extensive documentation on the domestic surveillance program… Continue Reading
Details of Expansive Gov’t Data Mining System Revealed
The Christian Science Monitor: US plans massive data sweep – Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far? Continue Reading
