Category Archives: Resources – The Blogosphere

BackType Launches Google Alerts For Blog Comments

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 … Continue reading

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Journalists Are a Chatty Bunch, as CNN Finds Out on Twitter

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 … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.7 – 20 Must See Features

Via Mashable 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, … Continue reading

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When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record

Via Tech Crunch 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 … Continue reading

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For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts

Via the New York Times 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 … Continue reading

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HOW TO: Market to Bloggers According to Timothy Ferriss

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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Burmese Blogger Sentenced to 20 Years For Reporting on Protests

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 … Continue reading

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Canadian Court Rules Linking to Libel Isn’t (Necessarily) Libel

Via Media Shift 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 … Continue reading

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Nigeria Joins List of Countries Harassing Bloggers

Via Media Shift 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 … Continue reading

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Malaysian Blogger Fights a System He Perfected

Via the New York Times By SETH MYDANS Published: November 5, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — In a vast office at the top of one of the world’s tallest buildings, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sits at a broad, glass-topped … Continue reading

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