meish dot org: When You Say Nothing At All
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 17:19
Meg Pickard: "Can there ever be a site which combines public and professional passions successfully? And those people who write often and eloquently about work-related topics on their personal sites - how do they square that away with being paid for the same knowledge? Or keeping cards close to their chest? Plus where do they find the time?"
The Australian: Bloggers of the world, let’s shop!
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:44
Online culture is thriving in almost every country I visited. The exception is Cuba … Most bloggers prefer to protest privately, anonymously or not at all … Despite their relatively small numbers and the penalties they attract, dissenting bloggers are playing havoc with the established order. According to Human Rights Watch researcher Elijah Zarwan, "bloggers have succeeded in doing something that years of standing on the street corner and shouting 'No to torture' or 'No to the interior ministry' has never managed to accomplish": putting these issues on the public agenda."
New York Times: Voices From the Suburban Blogosphere
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 23:37
"Many [bloggers in the suburbs] have let their sites go untended, but a few have built serious local journalism operations, while others have developed a following on certain topics and bask in the muted limelight of Internet fame."
Online Journalism Blog: How successful bloggers become bureaucratized too
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 14:55
Paul Bradshaw reads an enthography of blogging: "just as the restricted space and time of mainstream media shape their output, so does the lack of restrictions shape the output of blogs: 'Whereas constraints necessitate routines, so does a lack of limits … bloggers have developed routine practices that narrow down possibilities.'"
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: Blogging and journalism: it’s a graph, not a line
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 08:25
The distinction between 'blogging' and 'journalism' is "not a line, it’s a classic four-quadrant graph. There’s an X axis from “not blogging at all” to “blogging all the time,” and there’s a Y axis from, say, 'writes the equivalent of a private diary' to 'writes exclusively about public affairs.'"
Beat Blogging: Comments add value to newspaper Web sites
Friday, 25 July 2008, 18:40
"Sorry Gawker, but you're dead wrong that newspapers should stop allowing people to comment on stories. Really, really wrong. Comments add value Web sites, they drive traffic and build communities."
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 10:24
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Dave Hill picks up on a local London newspaper’s disdain for bloggers. "Most blogs are little more than a self-indulgent soapbox for those arrogant and egotistical enough to believe their opinions deserve a public airing."
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 05:13
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"You don’t have to run a community alongside a news organisation. In a networked world, running a news organisation is running a community. News is a community, with news items (articles, video, etc.) as the objects people gather around."
Friday, 4 July 2008, 19:15
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Everyone who believes this discussion is over (myself included), is sadly mistaken. The first comment dispatches it elegently.
Friday, 20 June 2008, 21:40
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"Georgina [Henry] and I talked a lot about HuffPost and the Guardian sharing more of our content with each other, and we came up with some crossposting ideas we’ll be implementing soon."
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 13:41
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"If The Atlantic, with its top shelf editorial standards, can [quote from a blogger's site without permission], then why can’t a blogger quote AP — almost as if the AP were a person?"
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 15:02
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Channel 4 News liveblogged the 42-day detention vote in the House of Commons using CoveritLive.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 13:25
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"The Birmingham Post has become the first UK newspaper to cover an event by both broadcasting live on the internet and blogging."
Sunday, 25 May 2008, 07:57
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Derek Willis: "So much of journalism blogging is preaching to the choir that you get the sense that if rest of the industry just would get out of the way already, everything would be fine. Things are a more complex than that …"
A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism.
