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Wall Street Journal: Rove’s Camp Takes Center of Web Storm. With more people turning to the Internet for news, bloggers have blurred the lines with traditional media and changed both the dynamics of the reporting process and how political rumors swirl. The Journal’s story raises some good issues, especially the question of whether putting stuff […]

I’m pleased to say that I’ve joined the board of the California First Amendment Coalition, which defends our right to speak out for what we believe, and for the public’s right to know what government does with our money and in our names. Note that this is the people’s right, not just the media’s. As […]

I’m in San Diego to attend the conference named in the title of this posting. It’s held by Mark Anderson, who operates the highly regarded Strategic News Service and is one of the major brains I encountered in my years covering technology. I’ll be on a panel about the future of news with Dave Winer, […]

If you have tried to post a comment here for the first time in the past several days, it may have been lost in the wave of comment spams from the slime who work so hard to ruin every online medium they touch. It appears that WordPress blogs are particularly under attack from these bottom-feeders […]

Just a heads-up that we’re in the process of creating a Citizen Media Award program. I’ve been working on this for a while, and have several potential sponsors. These awards will be quite different from the just-announced cool program over at the Press Gazette in the United Kingdom, where they’ve teamed up with mobile phone […]

Jeff Jarvis proposes the open ad marketplace, “that would allow advertisers to find the best blogs and bloggers to find the best ad deals.” I will quibble on several details in an upcoming post, but overall this could be an important move toward a democratized media future. Read it all.

I’m at the spring meeting of American Business Media, the major trade group for media organizations whose journalism is aimed at business audiences, notably the business-to-business crowd. The companies include giants like McGraw Hill, technology maven IDG and many others. This is an executive crowd, by and large, not the editorial folks. At today’s lunch, […]

Dave Winer’s new service, Share Your OPML, is going to make big waves in coming months and years. OPML is a format that describes the RSS feeds you’re currently reading. It’s essentially a reading list, but one that can be used in a variety of ways — and shared from machine to machine. Dave was […]

Lance Dutson, a Maine blogger who has gone after a state tourism agency and its advertising contractor, found himself at the wrong end of a legal gun barrel when the contractor, an ad agency, filed a libel suit that looked from here like raw intimidation. He fought back, with a lot of help, and now […]