links for 2006-10-19

Thursday, 19 October 2006, 17:25

• Christian Science Monitor: More politicians write blogs to bypass mainstream media
  “More politicians are f …looking to the Web as a way to bypass the media and get out their own message – unvarnished and unedited.”
  (tags: blogs politics usa)
• New York Times: Bloomberg Dismisses Talk of Sale
  Michael Bloomberg has denied that he intends to sell financial news service Bloomberg LP, which is estimated to be worth as much as $12 billion.
  (tags: bloomberg)
• Editor & Pubisher: New Bio of Woodward and Bernstein Is ‘No Love Letter’
  A new biography of Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein “inspects their lives with an eye toward the mistakes and human errors”
  (tags: journalism washingtonpost watergate bobwoodward carlbernstein)
• Dave Winer: How to improve professional reporting
  Dave Winer says reporters should encourage their sources to blog and possibly even host their blogs; use short URLs to highlight links in print; start their own blogs to float stories on.
  (tags: blogging journalism news reporting)
• Rebuilding Media: Do online publishers really need protection from Google? The outlook for ACAP. Rebuilding Media: The fate of media
  Ben Compaine wonders whether ACAP, the search engines permissions standard being backed by publishers’ groups including the World Association of Newspapers, is “a solution in search of a problem”
  (tags: google googlenews acap wan)
• BBC: Broadband UK needs ‘more speed’
  Three-quarters of UK online households will have broadband by December, Jupiter Research says.
  (tags: broadband internet)
• Beltway Blogroll: Blogging May Be Bad For Your Health
  A Stanford University study into Internet addiction lists the impulse to “make blog entries” as one of the symptoms
  (tags: blogging addiction)

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