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Poynter Online - What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers
Blogging isn’t just a Wild-West free-for-all of publishing with no rules or ethical guidelines. Bloggers are making up the rules of their emerging and increasingly powerful medium as they go, and they do indeed have ideas to offer those practicing traditional journalism.
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Poynter Online - What Bloggers Can Learn From Journalists
The principal difference between traditional journalists and the vast majority of bloggers is: an editor. The lack of one is one of the charms of blogging, of course. The blogger ponders, perhaps reports, analyzes, types, and publishes. It’s fast; it’s creative; it’s different from mainstream journalism.
Something to keep in mind, but not get too worked-up about. Personally, it hadn’t occurred to me but that’s probably because I probably wouldn’t say libelous things about someone while using their full name in print; that’s just asking for trouble.
Bloggers Warned They Can Be Sued for Libel
Libel law, as it applies to this […]
Trish Wilson’s Blog: The “Invisible” Woman Blogger
When I first came to the blogosphere, I collided head-first with a “why aren’t there more women bloggers” discussion. Apparently it wasn’t the first time the issue came up for debate. That same debate came up recently - again. Although the latest incarnation is about liberal women bloggers, the […]
The Graphing Calculator Story
Pacific Tech’s Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo, and later became part of FrameMaker. Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.
I […]
Apparently, we’re no closer to escaping the age-based generalizations of the pre-Internet age. Despite that, some good info herein.
Creating Passionate Users: If you’re over 35, do you have a clue?
How well do you know your younger audience? If you’re under 35, perhaps pretty well. You share a common trait–having grown up in a world […]
Okay, so this site leans toward marketing schtuff but a couple of the entries are interesting for the non-marketing info they contain. This entry and the next have links to two that I’ve found today.
Creating Passionate Users: Getting past the brain’s crap filter.
Because in so many ways, Your Brain Is Not Your Friend. It […]
A compelling presentation of one possible future for mass media. But I can’t figure out how buying TiVo(tm) serves Google in any way.
EPIC 2014
David Pescovitz:
Following up on my earlier post today about JewelEye, Shannon Larratt of the excellent Body Modification Ezine points to his wife Rachel’s personal account of Cosmetic Extraocular Implantation. Shannon says Rachel was the first American to have the procedure done. And I was very wrong in my original post: self-installation is clearly not an […]