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"The comfortable one-way model of publisher to editor to journalist to reader has changed forever. There is no turning back. It kind of happened before our eyes, but like those frogs slowly boiling in water as the heat is turned up, we may not have noticed – unless of course
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You can keep your eyes down and all of that, but, unfortunately, the world has its fare share of scumbags, and sometimes trouble invites itself. Jackie took the matter in her own hands, and published the story of how she was assaulted on the underground, along with a picture of
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Blogs start with identity, not with audience. They are conversational, personal, opinionated - everything that public broadcasters, restricted by their commitment to impartiality, are not. Right? Yet, public broadcasters, as newspapers and the rest of the media industry, are forced to adapt to a new media reality where people have
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But before you sharpen your blogging skills and aim for the stars, beware that the price may be for newspaper blogs only. New guidelines for the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes allow the submission of blogs. A press release from the Pulitzer Board discusses the widening of the range of online journalism
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Huge topic, and a very topical one as newspaper blogs are popping up all over the place – at least in the UK (I follow UK and Scandinavian media in-depth, as I've got strong ties to both regions, and so far newspaper blogs are more prolific in the the
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'Why do politicians blog?' asks Wordblog, quoting from Emily Bell's wry look at politicians jumping on the social media bandwagon in The Guardian's comment section today. The answer should be obvious: what a wonderful way to converse with the electorate, engage disaffected or alienated
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Reuters reports that an Ipsos MORI study has found that Europeans trust blogs (24 per cent) more than television ads (17 per cent) or email marketing (14 per cent). Newspapers were still more trusted than blogs (30 per cent). 52 per cent also said they were persuaded to make a
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Are blogs trustworthy sources of information? It's a question raised again and again, as people are trying to figure out what sort of world this new information landscape will lead us to. In "Three lies about social software" JP Rangaswami debunks a few persistent myths: Lie
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The story of the Swedish blogger who brought down a government minister took an interesting twist last week when Expressen, the tabloid who ran the story as its exclusive scoop a day after the blogger had published his story, restated that it was indeed the newspaper, and not the blogger,
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I vividly remember a time when friends were telling me all about the blogging revolution that surely was coming any day now, but most people had no idea what a blog was. Now even the Pentagon and the US intelligence community have started using blog-like-tools and wikis to communicate both
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... they might even let their professional mannerisms slip and, heaven forbid, end up telling the truth: CBS News reports that the Sudan government has ordered chief U.N. envoy Jan Pronk of the Netherlands to leave the country for writing in his blog that the Sudanese army had suffered heavy
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A new EU directive would require all blogs and websites that contain video content to comply with broadcasting regulations, according to The Times (do check out the full story. More links here, from Bloggers Blog).