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Are Facts Lost Underfoot in the Rush to Blog on Scandals
From the New York Times, Are Bloggers Setting the Agenda? It Depends on the Scandal. Refers to the Pew Internet and American Life Project report issued last week, “Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004.” Continue Reading
Range of Responses to NYTimes Online Fee Announcement
Yesterday I posted a link to the New York Times announcement of a new fee-based service to access a selected range of current and archival content, effective September 2005. Bloggers, journalists, newspaper execs and financial analysts offer their responses: Business People Like ‘NYT’ Plan to Charge on Web; Bloggers Don’t. Continue Reading
Impact of Political Bloggers on 2004 Campaign Examined in New Research Project
A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004 (32 pages, PDF), “PIP and BuzzMetrics examined the interplay of blogs, online citizen chatter in newsgroups, the mainstream news media and official political spin from the Democrat and Republican… Continue Reading
IBM Encourages Enterprise Blogging And Sets Guidelines for Authors
From this posting by James Snell, a member of the IBM’s Software Standards Strategy Group: “…IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of “blogging”…So with IBMers blogging both inside and outside our Intranet environment, recognizing full well that it… Continue Reading
Updates to Recent White Paper on Blogging Anonymously
EFF recently published a white paper on blogging anonymously, and today posted additional information in response to reader feedback, and encouraged an ongoing dialogue on the issue. Continue Reading
Will the New York Times Launch a Blog?
Editor and Publisher reports on the recommendations of an 19 member internal audit committee whose 16 pages report includes the following: “Consider creating a Times blog that promotes interaction with readers.” Also of note, the report states, “…we must strengthen and better define the boundary between news and opinion.” The report, “Preserving Our Reader’s Trust”… Continue Reading
Patient Blogs – A New Hospital Marketing Tool?
Computerworld reports on how a North Carolina hospital system has launched blogs authored by patients that communicate their experiences with specific medical procedures and treatment regimes. Continue Reading
Challenges to the News Business Addressed in Commentary and Surveys
When Those Pesky Blogs Undermine NPR News From the Carnegie Reporter, Spring 2005, What’s the future of the news business? This report to Carnegie Corporation of New York offers some provocative ideas. PowerPoint slides on the survey data above Continue Reading
Presentation: What blogs are vs. What they are not
Doc Searls’ closing keynote at Les Blogs, Paris, 25 April 2005 Continue Reading
Greatest Number of Links By Bloggers Are to Yahoo
According to new stats by BlogPulse, Yahoo News ranks at the top of the list of sources to which bloggers most frequently link, with the New York Times a close second. Interesting, as Yahoo News is an aggregator and the Times is a primary publisher, although it too aggregates stories, from AP. Continue Reading
Lessig’s Book On Cyberspace Law Updated Via Open Source Wiki
“Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the editing process to all,… Continue Reading
