Posts under ‘Blogging’

NY Times: Open-Source Spying. For the intelligence agencies to benefit from “social software,” he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. And that requires a cultural sea change: persuading analysts, who for years have survived by holding their cards tightly to their chests, to begin […]

American Journalism Review: Blogging Between the Lines. The mainstream media have fallen in love with blogs, launching them on everything from politics to life in Las Vegas to bowling. But does the inherent tension between the blogosphere’s anything-goes ethos and the standards of traditional journalism mean this relationship is doomed? Well, it took only, what, […]

Aftonbladet is Sweden’s biggest afternoon tabloid newspaper. It’s part of a media group, Schibsted, that has been leading the way globally in making the essential moves from print to the Internet. (See this Economist story for more details.) Aftonbladet’s Web team has done some remarkable things, but one achievement is fairly far ahead of the […]

It’s called The Lede, and I’m still not quite sure what the mission is despite this description: In the news business, the opening sentences of a story are referred to as its “lede” — spelled that way, journalism lore has it, to avoid confusion with the lead typesetting that once dominated newspaper printing presses. Although […]

Vox has launched with a fair amount of hype but also real promise. The key change is that the software easily enables private (or at least semi-private) conversations, a good idea.

The Berkman Center at Harvard invites local political bloggers to join us for a celebration of bloggers, honoring the citizen journalists chronicling the Massachusetts 2006 governor’s race. What: Blogging the Vote in 2006: A Celebration of Political Bloggers When: Monday, October 30, 5pm Where: Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, Second Floor

NY Times: A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data. If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks, searching Google for “Jon Kyl,” the Republican senator from Arizona now running for re-election, will produce high among the returns a link to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an […]

If you’re a blogger or other citizen media creator and plan to cover happenings on Election Day, you may be wondering about some of the legal situations you may encounter. Ask your questions at the question page for an upcoming Election Day Bloggers’ Legal Guide, and Stanford University Law students will work on getting the […]

Hartford Courant: Bloggers Deflect Political Credit. Tim Tagaris, Lamont’s Internet communications director, worked with bloggers in a way akin to how a traditional press secretary works with the media. He said he tried to provide them with information their readers wanted, while also focusing on fundraising and volunteer recruitment, which blogs can bolster through links […]

Over at PressThink, Paul Bass, editor of the New Haven Independent site, writes: If my experience is any guide, there are also pitfalls that point up the challenges that face the first wave of onliners as we develop the new journalism. I’ve found that some experiments that sound cool fall flat, while others take off. […]