NY Times: The two founders of Kazaa sold the company to Sharman Networks last year. But they have since hatched a plan that has a chance at causing another, potentially bigger uproar. They’ve reunited with the same team of Estonian programmers who wrote the code for Kazaa and have created a way to allow people […]
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 […]
Employee blogs silenced at Tampa Tribune
CyberJournalist.net reports on three more personal weblogs that have been silenced after apparent clashes with the old media mindset that continues to reign supreme in newsrooms. The latest casualties took place at the Tampa Tribune. Excerpt: Tom Mangan reports on his Weblog that three Tampa Tribune Webloggers have ceased blogging — one after pressure from […]
Weblogs and journalism intersect
The Fall 2003 issue of Harvard University’s Nieman Reports magazine has just come out (for those not in the know, the Nieman Fellowship is probably the most prestigious fellowship in all of journalism), and it contains what just may be the most comprehensive look at journalism and weblogs that has been published anywhere. Today I […]
‘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) […]