Blogging
I must admit I often draw weird glances or awkward silences from editors, and sometimes even other journalists, when I mention that I write a media blog. I've also received well-meaning requests to pitch editor friends before I 'give it away for free' when mainstream media
Blogging
For good and for worse, where has it brought us? Dan Farber runs into Dave Winer, who has been blogging for ten years come April, and reflects on the massive changes blogging has wrought to all fields of communication (at least in the US, in Europe, and especially Scandinavia, there
Blogging
Kareem Amer, the Egyptian blogger who has been detained since November for opinions he expressed on his blog, has just been sentenced to FOUR years in prison: three years for contempt of religion, and one year for defaming the Egyptian president (via Johan Norberg, who only yesterday spoke at a
Blogging
Doc Searls, one of the authors behind The Cluetrain Manifesto, a primer on how the Internet is transforming business as usual, weighs in to the recent discussion on 'What's wrong with social media' (Funny that, as the terms social media and Web 2.0 become more
Blogging
Perhaps not your most pressing concern on a Friday afternoon, but here's a useful guide to how to awaken that 'giant within' and write the perfect audience-pleasing post (from Valleywag via Bloggers Blog).
Blogging
'We are what we make. Our YouTubed videos, Technoratied blogs, Flickred photos etc – our creations express us,' wrote Jeff Jarvis while summing up his impressions blogging from Davos. He was struck by how identity seemed to be a recurring issue in all the media talk there, and I
Blogging
"Repeat after me: 'the message' is dead, gone and not coming back. Blogs are conversations, conversations are social interaction and social interaction is about your relationship to a person, not a statement. Cornelius Puschmann in a comment on Suw Charman's post Edelman: must try harder&
Blogging
"Traffic to major US newspapers' blog sites grew 210% year-over-year in December, according to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings. Part of the reason for that tremendous rise is due to some papers adding new blogs during 2006... NYTimes.com was the top site followed by USAToday.com and
Blogging
At least that seems to be the conclusion from Danish TV: When TV2's household names started blogging, it increased traffic to tv2.dk. Just how much the article doesn't say, but Anne-Mette Bro, TV 2's head of press, told MediaWatch (in Danish, requires subscription)
Blogging
PR Newswire will start linking individual press releases to Technorati so people can find out which blogs are linking to them (via Bloggers Blog). "Press releases have the power to initiate and inform important conversations in the blogosphere, while many bloggers are great accelerators and influencers of public conversation
Blogging
The Washington Post breaks the news about how Media Bloggers Association has gained access to the upcoming spectacle: When the trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice opens next week, scores of journalists are expected to throng the
Acquisitions
This time, it's for real... The internet portal has confirmed the purchase, but refused to disclose the price tag. However, Forbes quotes sources indicating a sum just above $10m. Tellingly, this is how Bloggers Blog describes MyBlogLog: it "helps add social networking and community features to blogs.