Tag: blogs
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House panel approves legal shield for bloggers – CNET News.com
Not as great as it sounds. Basically says that bloggers are journalists IF they make money “or livelihood” — if they take ads. Not sure how detailed the language is, because my blog has certainly been a factor in getting “livelihood.” via Dave W. House panel approves legal shield for bloggers – CNET News.com
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Democrat & Chronicle: Community Blogs
Fairport/Perinton community blog written on the D&C site by a non-staffer. Sure do wish there was an RSS feed… sigh… Democrat & Chronicle: Community Blogs
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Par Excellence
It’s the “Fake Par Ridder” blog. I’m sure this is *really* interesting for the two newsrooms involved. Par Excellence
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Intern season means intern blog season
As much as I might wish for a blog intern, I’m talking about interns at your newspapers with blogs of their own (not someone I hired to read my feeds and post wittier-than-thou Tweets for $10/hour). Let’s start out at a major metro in the west, where an SJSU student on the sports copy desk…
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apophenia: Dear esteemed members of the press,
As she’s done before, danah boyd deals with the problem of being a literate expert on the topic of social networking among teenagers. The press LOVES to write about her particular area of expertise, and really, there’s only one of her. I feel guilty mys apophenia: Dear esteemed members of the press,
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City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog
A new NYT news blog. The NYT blogs are running on WordPress, really seamlessly integrated with the style of the main site, as if Khoi Vinh is standing over the designer with a pixel ruler measuring line-spacing. I love it. City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog
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Blogging on the shoulders of giants
It’s not every week someone names me in reference to a generation (hint: name a generation of journalists after Adrian and you’ll get more useful code and less seething rhetoric), but if readership of this blog has passed the “three of you” mark, it’s because I’ve been paying gobs and gobs of attention for the…
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Blogging is like sex. – Strange Attractor
“The bottom line is that blogging is like sex. You can’t fake it. You can’t fake passion. You can’t fake wanting to engage with the public. If you do, it will ultimately be an unsatisfying experience for both the blogger and their readers.” Blogging is like sex. – Strange Attractor
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The sky is not falling
From the Columbia Journalism Review comes a short note taking “A Long View on Layoffs.” For those looking for some comfort in numbers, rest assured that there appear to be plenty of working journalists left around here somewhere. The CJR piece runs down some long-term employment statistics and then turns loose some of Wilson Lowrey’s…