Have a NACAF Summer

Great article in the NYT by Katherine Seelye on the way the internet is changing the relationships between sources and journalists, between the writers and those being written about. It is a great article because it does what good journalism does, it provides a range of points of view while still being pointed in [...]

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Harry Jaffe reports on new blogging developments at the Washington Post:
Chris Cillizza is the first person hired by Washingtonpost.com—based in Virginia—to spend most of his time in the downtown newsroom, accordin g to political editor John Harris. The Post may have found the crossover reporter to bridge the gap between its print newspaper and Internet [...]

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Any article that begins: “How big are blogs? Bigger than Jesus. Bigger than sex” sounds like it’s going to be yet another blogsploitation spiel. However Daniel Rubin’s article in the Philadelphia Inquirer is a pretty good summary of major blogging trends.
If 2004 was the year blogs entered the language (so says Merriam-Webster), then 2005 was [...]

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The New York Times has finally got on the blog wagon. Deputy managing editor Jon Landman promised further blogs but noted that blogs “make some newspaper people nuts”:
In an memo to staff on Wednesday (first posted at LAObseved), Jon Landman, the paper’s deputy managing editor, promised a real estate blog by Damon Darlin in [...]

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It’s interesting that the story on bloggers and defamation has so many comments today. One blogger told of his experience when sued for defamation

Having had a defamation complaint about a comment made on my site there’s good news and bad news. If you delete it and are willing to hand over the log details of [...]

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Interesting post on one of the smh blogs about bloggers and the law:
Bogs fall under the same defamation and other laws that regulate all media organisations in the country.
While US bloggers are protected by a freedom of speech clause in the US Bill of Rights, new sedition laws passed by Australian [...]

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A student in the course emailed me the following questions.
In our blogs are we supposed to have opinions? With our particular topics is it OK to comment on all different stories or do we have to stick to a particular theme (within our topic)? Thanks I’m just a little scared to post [...]

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Charles Wright geek in residence at smh.com reflects on being part of a judging panel for Australia’s best blog:

Having sponsored a $10,000 prize for “Australia’s best blog”, Razor can’t blame SmartyHost for wanting to get as much mileage as possible out of the event. It describes the winner, Australian artist Jodi Rose’s Bridge [...]

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Paul has come up with a good solution for developing categories in Blogger.
He is using a system called del.icio.us which is a web based bookmark system. It was originally developed so that you could collect links and house them on an accessible web server rather than store them in your browser. [...]

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Blogging was meant to be easy. But the browser wars and MAC/PC compatibility issues will always get in the way.
So to some solutions.
For those of you who primarily use PCs then the best solution is Uniblogs. A quick simple set-up procedure will give you a fully functional Word Press blog [...]

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