Posts under ‘Resources - The Blogosphere’

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on December 18, 2008
BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream.
Today they launched a new feature called Alerts that will let users track keywords included in comments [...]

Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: December 7, 2008
CNN says it wants newspaper feedback as it creates a news wire service to compete with The Associated Press and other services. At a meeting last week, one newspaper staff member offered his advice — and shared the framework of CNN’s plans — in real time [...]

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December 4, 2008 - 6:49 pm PDT - by Sean P. Aune

WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs.  This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is.  WordPress 2.7 comes [...]

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by Robin Wauters on November 28, 2008

There’s a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post on the bar visit of a Belgian politician. I’m generally hesitant [...]

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By JENNA WORTHAM
Published: November 23, 2008
It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan.
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to [...]

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November 19, 2008 - 1:29 pm PDT - by Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy.com.
Tim Ferriss’ relationships with bloggers helped him reach the New York Times bestseller list with his book, The Four Hour Work Week. I recently called Tim to ask him how [...]

Via Media Shift
by Lucie Morillon, November 14, 2008
In many countries, you have to commit a serious crime to be sentenced to 20 years in jail, but in Burma this can happen just for using the Internet.
There are almost 69 cyber-dissidents in jail worldwide, yet Burma’s Nay Phone Latt has become the first blogger to receive [...]

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by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, November 13, 2008
Linking to content is the essence of the online experience — it’s the “Web” in the World Wide Web. But there’s a lot of legal gray area around linking, and surprisingly few court rulings providing guidance as to the circumstances when linking could result in liability.
A court [...]

Here are a few links to articles put up by Canadian public servant bloggers who are interested in public servant and departmental blogging:
General guide for public bloggers, based largely on US laws since little is written here in Canada:
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
On what we can reproduce and who owns what is written:
Intellectual Property
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php
US guide [...]

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by Sokari Ekine, November 10, 2008
On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports was arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some days before the SSS announced that Elendu had been charged, first with money laundering and then sedition.
Yet [...]