Posts under ‘Blogging’

Capitol Weekly: Out in cyberspace, looking in. For 60 years, the Capitol Correspondents Association has been charged with deciding which reporters should be sanctioned to cover the California Legislature. But a new set of bylaws aimed at restricting the access of partisan bloggers has set off a mini-firestorm within the Capitol, as California aims to […]

Dave Winer, commenting on Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ open letter on digital restrictions for downloaded music, says Apple is now a media company: Now the morning after it hits me how new this is, because Apple usually communicates through bigpub reporters like John Markoff at the NY Times and Steven Levy at Newsweek. This time […]

The Consumerist’s readers have ruled: ‘All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP’ Wins Best Flog 2006.

Chuck Olsen has posted his documentary about blogs — appropropriately called “Blogumentary” — on Google Video. Recommended.

Micah Sifry: How-To: Seven Ways to Find Local Political Blogs. If all politics is local, then locally-focused blogs are obviously important to anyone engaged in politics. But since the internet doesn’t come with zipcodes attached to urls, it’s not obvious how to discover these nodes of conversation and community? How to find blogs that are […]

UPDATED Nielsen BuzzMetrics discusses its purported “Top 100 Blog Posts of 2006” with a brief introduction, but makes the actual list only available in PDF format. Lame. UPDATE: The list is now online in a non-lame HTML format The measure used by the company is the number of links to the individual post by individual […]

Great news. Lisa Williams has launched Placeblogger, covering hyperlocal news sites around the nation. What’s a placeblog? Lisa explains: Placeblogs are sometimes called “hyperlocal sites” because some of them focus on news events and items that cover a particular neighborhood in great detail — and in particular, places that might be too physically small or […]

A business-oriented website all but accused the editor of Men’s Health magazine, in a blog posting on Yahoo, of inserting an advertising plug into his copy. Oh, there was a disclaimer of sorts — maybe the blog writer “really loves the product,” suggested Dan Zoll in his posting — but the rest of the piece […]

Rebecca MacKinnon has compiled a thorough and fascinating study of foreign correspondents’ views in China of the blog scene there — “Blogs and China correspondence.” Most interestingly, she says in an email: people generally found the question comparing “reliability” of blogs vs. msm to be completely beside the point.

A student wrote to ask “whether blogs are a valid form of journalism.” I replied: An equivalent question would be: Is publishing on paper a valid form of journalism? Blogging is simply a publishing method — a website. Some blogs are clearly journalism. Most are not. The bloggers who are doing journalism are for the […]