Blogger-Prof Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine is on tonight’s NewsHour on PBS, interviewed as part of a discussion about the mix of facts of opinion in the media today, and whether that’s a good thing or not. Jeff offers up “three ethics” that the news media can learn from bloggers: (1) The ethic of corrections: Be […]
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Bill would protect bloggers alongside journalists
Ars Technica: New bill would give bloggers same shield law protection as journalists The House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as journalists. Instead of requiring journalists to be […]
Interview with serial fiction blogger
At We Media in Miami last month, the highlight for me was what happened outside the conference: a half-hour sitdown with the wonderful Nikki Mondschein, creator of the serial fiction blog The Star Islanders. (It currently ranks at #96 among Literature blogs, says blogtopsites.com.) No, a serial fiction blog isn’t something written by Hugh Hewitt […]
Bloggers’ choice: Free agents, or infomercials?
Scott Kirsner wrote the lead article in the San Jose Mercury News’ Perspective section today about bloggers who write about clients for a price. Good piece, though it doesn’t answer the fundamental question of whether disclosure is all that’s required to ameliorate the ethical issues involved. Some additional pointers relevant to this issue: • Influence […]
State of the blogosphere
Technorati’s David Sifry on the State of the Blogosphere. About 100,000 new weblogs are being created each day. And the globalization of the blogosphere continues. "Our data appears to show both English and Spanish languages are a more universal blog language than the other two most dominant language, Japanese and Chinese, which seem to be […]