Weblogs

I’m quoted in today’s Richmond (Virg.) Times Dispatch in a story titled Blogs: flavor of moment or publishing revolution? I met the author, McGregor McCance, at the session Rusty Foster and I gave on weblogs at the new media conference in Berkeley the other week. Here’s the exchange McGregor and I had by email; about […]

Susan Mernit, a friend and former VP with Netscape and AOL Time Warner, has written her first story in eight years. It’s a subject that I find particularly interesting, since I’ve blogged it several times in the past couple of weeks: Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy. CNN’s decision to shut down a popular blog […]

Mitch and Dan R. weigh in on CNN’s decision to pull the plug on the independent weblog from Iraq by one of its employees, Kevin Sites. Writes Mitch in Old media minds, new media disruption: I keep seeing the worst in journalism displayed during this war. I’ve also seen many examples of big media — […]

A graduate student at Stanford University posed a long list of questions about blogging to me last night, and I ripped off this quick response: Q. What kind of research goes into writing blogs? Do you spend the same amount of time, resources, and interviews as you would for a normal publication? No. Blogs are […]