Terrific editorial worth pointing to in today’s San Jose Mercury News: … Are bloggers journalists? The debate is not about who gets bragging rights to ink-stained wretchdom. It is about who is shielded under an important law that allows journalists to keep their sources confidential. The law is essential to a journalist’s ability to gather […]
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Influence and principles in the blogosphere
The Online Journalism Review has just posted my story about the ethics of bloggers and other key influencers receiving payments or freebies from commercial interests. (Note to OJR: try to start publishing stories in the morning rather than the late afternoon; you’ll get much more mileage.) The article — Influence peddling in the blogosphere. What […]
What bloggers can learn from journalists
A couple of days ago, the Poynter’s Steve Outing had a piece on What journalists can learn from bloggers. He completes his two-part series today with a look at What bloggers can learn from journalists. Bloggers could better protect themselves if they took a few pages out of the reporter’s notebook. Great advice here. Excerpts: […]
Measure your blog’s influence
At Web 2.0, PubSub CTO Bob Wyman leaned over to me, asked for my blog’s url and then emailed me a little chart showing how much buzz it was getting in the blogosphere. (I’m generally around No. 280, which ain’t bad when up against 6 million weblogs.) Now you can get the rankings on how […]
Blogging from BloggerCon 3
I’m attending BloggerCon 3 at Stanford University today. I won’t be blogging each session today — there are dozens of people doing that, like Doc Searls (whom I just had lunch with) and Susan Mernit. Instead, I’m taking a stab at trying something new: shooting video of two of the sessions, Podcasting with Adam Curry […]