Posts under ‘Blogging’

The folks over at the CBSNews.com Public Eye site asked me to write a guest posting. I did. They’ve called it “On The New Principles Of A More Diverse Media Ecosystem” — and it’s online today.

Jeff Jarvis is raising money to “Help Zeyad come to America.” Zeyad is the pioneering Iraqi blogger who want to attend journalism school in New York.

I’m currently at the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference in Manila, Philippines, with other prominent folks from the blogsphere, like Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Ooi and Isaac Mao. You can check out the conference blog for a rundown of presentations on “Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia in Manila to share experiences […]

Slate’s Jack Shafer shreds “Judith Miller’s New Excuse” for her well-deserved comeuppance, in which she blames bloggers for (in her view) unfairly tarring her shabby (my word) journalism in the run-up to the Iraq war. Note: Miller’s former boss, Bill Keller, all but calls her a liar in the Esquire piece Shafer cites. And Shafer […]

The UK’s Guardian newspaper launches its ambitious new collective blog today, Comment is free: Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from the Guardian and Observer newspapers with other writers and commentators representing a wide range of […]

Evidence of a blogging business bubble?

UPDATED NY Times: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its Public Relations Campaign. Under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters. But the strategy raises questions about what […]

All-around smart guy Tristan Louis has examined blog trends in the past year by taking the Technorati 100 from 2005 and comparing it against 2006. He found some interesting results, showing the dynamic nature of the blogosphere: Only 9 blogs moved up in the rankings, and there were 65 new entries to the list. That […]

Jay Rosen and his students at New York University have launched their Blue Plate Special, a listing of what they deem to be the best blogging newspapers in America. Check out what they (accurately) call their nifty chart.

I’ll be in Washington next Monday-Wednesday, speaking Tuesday at the Politics Online conference at George Washington University. If any bloggers or citizen-media folks are interested in getting together, send me an e-mail at dan.gillmor (at) citmedia (dot) org.