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Why it's time to break out of Twitter (Scripting News)A scathing post by blogging pioneer Dave Winer on the Suggested Users page on Twitter.
AltercationI've been thinking a bit more about Tony Blankley's attack on George Soros, along with those of Bill O'Reilly and the Republican slime machine that are apparently inspired and supplied them.
Blog Linking Less Important?"Louis Gray believes the importance of blog linkage is declining, noting that, "I've seen traffic from other blogs to be driving an ever-declining percentage of visits to my site, swamped by social media tools, aggregation sites, and of course, Google search." He offers thr …
Where were you when "Star Wars Kid" first strutted across your screen with his perfect Jedi moves? What did you think when Newsvine broke the VMI story? What blog post changed history forever? Share your favorite moments in social media history!
EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfingUnder laws due to come into force at the beginning of next year, but likely to be delayed until April for the UK, companies posing as consumers on fake blogs, providing fake testimonies on consumer rating websites such as TripAdvisor, or writing fake book reviews on Amazon risk c …
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I find it interesting to note that although citizens' journalism has been much touted as a source of grassroots politics for the most part it seems that the astroturf is winning so far in 2008 elections.
Tumblelogging: don't think about it, just write Weblogs? Been there, done that. Facebook? It's full of kids. Twitter? That's so 2006, darling. No, the smart thing to be doing online these days is tumblelogging, which is to weblogs what text messages are to email - short, to the point, and direct.
Vietnam puzzled by fake blogs of top communist leadersVietnamese authorities are looking into a number of fake weblogs purporting to be the thoughts and messages of top Communist Party and government officials, a spokesman said Thursday.
It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp" "Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism.
Blogs mark the first 10 years "Check this out. Amazing!" It took just a brief sentence, and after those four words a revolution followed.
I've never been to SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas and I was hoping to go this year but two other designers from work were chosen instead of me this year. There's no hard feelings, both of them are friends of mine, but I would have loved to go.
Faultline USA: Featured Contributor's Blog: Maggie's NotebookLast week I planned on writing an entry to introduce you to our newest contributor, Maggie of Maggie's Notebook. I had to delay this entry when Maggie's computer took a fatal nose-dive and crashed big time.
Recently the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards nominations was announced posting a handful of excellent blogs in several different categories.
Blogging, the nihilist impulseMedia theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens' journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What's declining is the "Belief in the Message".
Nucking Fut's : Chair made out of human hairFormer hairdresser Ronald Thompson created this chair, called the "Stiletto Chair", out of 4.5 lbs of human hair cuttings!…..now that's fashionable
How Dare You Make My Content More Valuable!It seems to be the trend nowadays to misunderstand how the web works and to get mad about companies like Google making your content more valuable or driving traffic to your site.
Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websitesFrom the article: Rafe Banks, a lawyer in Georgia, got involved in a nasty dispute with a client over how to defend him on a drunken-driving charge. The client, David Milum, fired Banks and demanded that the lawyer refund a $3,000 fee. Banks refused.
Big in Japan just got BIGGER!Big in Japan and Weblogs Work are now one brand. It took us a year to determined that weblogs do in fact work, but they are simply one social media tool a business or agency should consider.
Nature.com - Top five science blogsWeblogs written by scientists are relatively rare, but some of them are proving popular. Out of 46.7 million blogs indexed by the Technorati blog search engine, five scientists' sites make it into the top 3,500. Declan Butler asks the winners about the reasons for their success.
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