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Four out of five Danish journalists feel reading blogs is irrelevant to their work, according to a survey by media intelligence company Cision (via Mediawatch.dk). Hardly any news journalists felt blogs were worth the hassle, but half of the survey's respondents did believe blogs would come to
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People largely ignore display advertisement on websites. A more successful, albeit unethical, approach to grab attention is to make the ad look like content, reports Jakob Nielsen's Alert Box. These findings (via David Black) reminded me of a recent survey by Director A/S which showed that the
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Hmm... it could have been worse (via Adriana): 78%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? It's quite ironic to publish this when I've just had huge difficulties accessing Typepad, which this blog is hosted on - again, I might add. Maybe it's the Monday
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Fabulous title for a not so fabulous op-ed from journalisten.dk. And yes, we're talking about Andrew Keen's "Cult of the amateur – how Today's Internet is killing our culture and destroying our economy". In short: the journalist thinks this is a very
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A Bloggers' Labour Union scrambling for medical benefits to safeguard against the health hazards successful bloggers expose themselves to. And a law to shield (only those) bloggers who allow ads on their blogs against revealing confidential sources. Jesus. What has the world come to.
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Here's another example of how legislators are struggling to deal with a new reality where everyone can publish: CNET reports (via Robin Hamman) that The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has approved an amended version of the Free Flow of Information Act. The revised bill attempts
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Forbes reports (via Jackie Danicki) that a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labour union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards. Susie Madrak, the author of Suburban Guerilla blog, who is active
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The Wall Street Journal has a full-text transcript of a discussion (via Poynter) between authors Andrew Keen (The Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is Killing Our Culture) and David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Clutrain Manifesto): Keen starts
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Well wouldn't you know, Magnus Ljungkvist, the blogger who first published the damaging revelations that forced Sweden's trade minister, Maria Borelius, to resign, has just been awarded 'Nyhetspriset 2007, Årets avslöjande' [News price 2007, the expose of the year]. The price is a new
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I just love the really good niche blogs I come across once in a while. I frequently find myself defending the virtues of blogs to editors and fellow journos and find it perhaps too easy to refer to those blogs with high and mighty ambitions about changing the world, setting
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It looks as if Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, has set out to seduce the country's bloggers. Not only has he recently started blogging, but, while addressing his first post to "Dear Reader", each of his subsequent posts starts with "Dear Bloggers"
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I was going to blog about some interesting tidbits from the kingdom of Denmark when the future existence of my blog was called into question yesterday. So, while I was quite put off blogging, my thoughts did wander to Hamlet, of course. Both because of his existential soul-searching - Whether