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It's not easy for newspapers to get this blogging thing right, some do and some clearly don't, but the debate about the value of doing it, and how to best go about it, continues... I hope to get back to this issue more in depth soon,
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The official Google blog doesn't take comments, is it still a blog? Some say it's not, others that it is - just a less valuable one (via Bloggers Blog). David Winer revisits the question and concludes that it is not the form but the voice that
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At least in the blogosphere anno 2007. Bloggers Blog has compared the Technorati top ten on 1 January 2006 with the top ten one year later: at the start of 2007 tech blogs dominate the list, and conservative big hitters like Michelle Malkin and Instapundit have dropped out of the
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Over at Media Culpa, Hans Kullin has gazed into the crystal ball and come up with a few irreverent predictions for the media year ahead, both for Scandinavia and the world at large, including this thought-provoking vision: Mainstream media are pushing the citizen journalism trend so far that reporters are
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Donald Trump may be a talented man, but he has yet to find his 'inner blogger'. In the recent spat between the property tycoon and chatshow host Rosie O'Donnell, Trump has spent a lot of time slagging off O'Donnell in TV interviews, whereas she,
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Wired News reports from The international Global Voices summit, under the headline "Bloggers shrink the planet": "Once seen as primarily English, usually American, and often personal or geeky, the blogosphere today mostly resembles this room -- a noisy, transnational pastiche of culture and language. According to Technorati,
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Great advice and input on the recurring issue of how to handle trolls, flamers and 'uncivilised' comments in online media communities, some of which perhaps also could be applied to dealing with the less welcome side effects of blog popularity, from Kevin Anderson and Mark Potts (via Martin
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Social media is changing a great many things, and of course we need new words to describe a new reality. As always I find all these new terms and concepts fascinating: I've previously reflected on phenomena such as blog out and blogarazzi, today's additions (via Yahoo/
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What happens when media organisations and others are scrambling to get on the social media bandwagon without really understanding what they are getting themselves into? A lot of the time it all goes pear-shaped, so we need those debates about what is actually worth getting involved in, and how to
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Blogging is getting so hip and trendy that between Mohammed Al Fayed's new blog and the blog Jeffrey Archer started writing this summer, Jackie Danicki wonders if she really wants to call herself a blogger anymore... I guess it used to be sort of a radical thing to
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Some say blogging is about conversation, but one of the curses of popularity is that sometimes those conversations attract a rather odd crowd of hangers-on who tend to pollute rather than add to the debate. A recent blogger's do (all links in this sentence in Norwegian) even revealed
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Surely, when politicians start flocking to international blogging conferences, begging for a spot in the speaker line-up, that's when blogging has become... eh... well, mainstream? Live blogging from LeWeb3, the third Les Blogs conference in Paris, Robin Hamman, is disappointed by how this year's speakers "