By Mindy McAdams
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The blog Thinking Ethics has an interesting — and relevant — take on the firing of a software contractor for the CIA who blogged (not publicly but in a closed system) about national security issues (story: The Washington Post, July 21, 2006). From Thinking Ethics:
I think part of the problem comes from the fact that [...]
British journalist Shane Richmond pointed to a report about British bloggers, sponsored by MSN. The report (in PDF format) is stunningly beautiful. I mean, it’s like ice cream with sprinkles and gummi bears and M&M’s (Smarties) all over it — it’s that pretty.
Like any trained journalist, I am always skeptical about reports paid for by [...]
At The Guardian, Charles Arthur considers “the 1 percent rule”:
It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
Intriguing, but I can’t think about an [...]
Hugh Hewitt (radio show host and author of the book Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World) sings praises for the Truth Laid Bear — and the stuff he has linked to is well worth a peek.Especially cool is the Middle East map, with informative rollovers.
Hewitt is one of 10 “Higher Beings” in [...]
Teaching journalism students how to read, write and evaluate blogs has become a necessity. So I was delighted to find Magnetic Headlines at Copyblogger.com:
On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. This is the secret to the power of the headline, and [...]
Sony has announced a hard-drive high-definition camcorder, the HDR-SR1 (source: CamcorderInfo.com via unmediated).
No tape. No capture. Record directly to disk. In HD.
Should be on the market in September for $1,500 U.S. Repeat: $1,500 U.S.
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In Bloggers: A portrait of the Internet’s new storytellers, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that about 57 million American adults read blogs. That is 39 percent of U.S. Internet users. For this study, 7,012 adults were questioned; 4,753 were Internet users. (That’s a nice big sample!)
The study, however, really focused on bloggers, [...]
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