At one point last night, someone remarked, “This may be one of the largest gatherings of bloggers who’ve gotten together outside of a conference.” That sounds about right. Two dozen bloggers, high tech folks and media people came together and stormed the Bastille last night for an evening of dining and socializing in San Francisco. […]
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Freenet floggers
Ian Clarke, the 26-year-old Irish programmer/tech innovator, greatly impressed me during our 90-minute chat today. He just moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, after spending three years in Santa Monica, Calif. The reason was not so much his distaste for this administration’s foreign policy (“The joke is that I was carted off to Guantanamo,” he said) but […]
Does advertising compromise blogging?
A couple of bloggers today raised the issue of conflicts of interest when bloggers run ads on their sites. This comes on top of stories in UK’s The Register about Google adding a gag clause to one of its advertising programs and in The Guardian suggesting that bloggers are altering their content to attract advertisements […]
‘Free the Bee blogger!’
Kevin R. in LA Observed asks: Has Sacramento Bee political blogger Daniel Weintraub been reined in? The Bee’s ombudsman reported yesterday that Weintraub’s blog will now be subjected to the editing filter, after complaints from the Legislature’s Latino Caucus. I worked at the Bee for 11 years (I left in ’97, before Weintraub got there) […]
Are emails private? And should bloggers scoop their interviewers?
Mark Glaser, a friend and columnist for the Online Journalism Review, has a small beef with bloggers, which he related to me by email and allowed me to share on this blog. It’s simply this: an increasing number of bloggers whom Mark has interviewed by email post their interview comments on their blogs — before […]