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Don’t hate me because I’m a Blogger

Don’t hate me because I’m a Blogger

Besides your nightclub probably sucks worse than my writing. via The Raw Feed continue
Bloggers Could Be Given Special Access To UK Parliament

Bloggers Could Be Given Special Access To UK Parliament

The UK Government is considering giving bloggers access to Parliament on similar grounds currently available to journalists. According to PR Week, House of Commons chiefs are fine-tuning plans to give bloggers privileged access to government communications. The radical ... continue
TechCrunch and its lost Teachable Moment

TechCrunch and its lost Teachable Moment

It was a famous speech in Philadelphia during his run for office that President Obama got us to first think about Teachable Moments. The idea being that there are things that happen in our lives that are negative ... continue
Video: Jon Stewart slices O’Reilly, wears skin as trophy

Video: Jon Stewart slices O’Reilly, wears skin as trophy

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart finished up a two-part series of interviews on Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor last night, and it made for some great, laugh-trackless watching as the two sparred over Iran, climate change, ... continue
TechCrunch sacks 17-year-old intern for trading toys for coverage

TechCrunch sacks 17-year-old intern for trading toys for coverage

Michael Arrington is "shaken" and has dismissed 17-year-old tech wunderkind Daniel Brusilovsky after information emerged that the kid was demanding shiny new tech toys in exchange for TechCrunch coverage. In a post publicly flogging the "unnamed" minor (easily ... continue
ACORN foe, blogger James O’Keefe, now facing 10 years in jail

ACORN foe, blogger James O’Keefe, now facing 10 years in jail

Ha, ha. Conservative blogger and entitled brat James O'Keefe became a darling of right-wing pundits after a series of satirical stunts culminating in the entrapment of ACORN staff across the country during a prank in which he posed ... continue
Sleep talking blog goes viral, is likely bollocks

Sleep talking blog goes viral, is likely bollocks

It seems like every day there's a fantastic and hilarious new blog to clog up your RSS feed. I fucking love funny stuff on the internet. In the days before the internet, I listened at the door when ... continue
FTC admits celebrities can blog for freebies, no disclosure needed

FTC admits celebrities can blog for freebies, no disclosure needed

The FTC has hinted in an interview with Daily Finance that the rules about fairly disclosing comps in blog posts doesn't apply to people who happen to be awash in a sea of free goodies. Yes, you, poor ... continue
Blogging Predictions For 2010

Blogging Predictions For 2010

Having delivered a reasonable score for 2009, let me glaze into my crystal ball for another 10 blogging predictions for the year ahead, 2010, my 9th year blogging and covering the industry. 1. Blogs/ uberblogs will make up ... continue
Our 2009 Blogging Predictions: How Did They Stack Up

Our 2009 Blogging Predictions: How Did They Stack Up

It's the end of the year, and before gazing into a crystal ball and making predictions for the year ahead, it's only fair that we start the process by assessing how well last years predictions went. CORRECT: The ... continue
Blogging mom criticized for tweeting after son’s death

Blogging mom criticized for tweeting after son’s death

Shellie Ross counts herself among the growing ranks of moms who blog (and tweet), with thousands of followers subscribed to her Twitter feed- an impressive audience for a social media civilian. Now Ross is in the crosshairs of holier-than-thou ... continue
Industry Study Finds Blogs Not Responsible For 90% Of Content Theft

Industry Study Finds Blogs Not Responsible For 90% Of Content Theft

A study published by the Fair Syndication Consortium, an industry body backed by major media outlets in the United States, has found that blogs aren't primarily responsible for content theft. The study found that blogs account for less ... continue
The Michelle Obama Offensive Image Story: Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Splogs Hosting The Image?

The Michelle Obama Offensive Image Story: Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Splogs Hosting The Image?

An offensive picture depicting Michelle Obama as an ape has proven the Streisand Theory again over the last week, but in all the coverage little to nothing has been said about the splogs hosting the image. For those ... continue
Watch your internet mouth: anonymous comments could get you sacked

Watch your internet mouth: anonymous comments could get you sacked

If you leave a crude comment on Kurt Greenbaum's St. Louis Dispatch articles, he'd like a word. With your boss. Greenbaum penned an admittedly (by the author) lame piece Friday for the Dispatch, a "nice, soft edition of ... continue
Sensible Ways To Use Twitter To Help Promote Your Blog

Sensible Ways To Use Twitter To Help Promote Your Blog

Twitter is very much this years number one get rich quick and buy my ebook topic, but there are some very sensible ways you can use Twitter to help promote your blog. Let me say upfront though that ... continue
South Africa Arrests Bloggers Critical of Government

South Africa Arrests Bloggers Critical of Government

South African police have arrested at least one blogger (possibly three) in an apparent crackdown on Government dissent. According to local media, Albert Oosthuizen who runs zasucks.com - was arrested allegedly on the basis of an outstanding warrant ... continue
Epic Win: US Reporter Protections Legislation Extends To New Media

Epic Win: US Reporter Protections Legislation Extends To New Media

Legislation that will protect reporters from being forced to disclose their confidential sources in the US Federal Court will recognize new media alongside heritage media. The legislation, a compromise between the US Senate, media representatives and the White ... continue
How Twitter has changed the Blogosphere, but not in the way you think

How Twitter has changed the Blogosphere, but not in the way you think

At some stage in the last two years we should have been writing posts noting that blogging has died. "Twitter will kill blogging" we were told by self-appointed "social media" experts, and yet today blogging is still ... continue
Mashable signs a deal with CNN

Mashable signs a deal with CNN

In a decent than syndicating your posts deal, Mashable announced yesterday that they've signed a deal with CNN to link to their posts from the CNN Tech page. In a serious bout of new speak, Mashable's founder (and ... continue
NYT subtly frowns on Deadspin’s ESPN horndog dossier shenanigans

NYT subtly frowns on Deadspin’s ESPN horndog dossier shenanigans

A new media campaign retaliating against ESPN for scandal related subterfuge got some old media attention today. Deadspin, a Gawker media blog, gets oodles of sports and sportscaster news related tips and rumors in their inbox. Back at ... continue
A Very WordPress World

A Very WordPress World

Since 2003, an open source, Internet-oriented software package has done what is exceedingly rare within that community:  becoming not only immensely popular and wildly loved, but also profitable.  Matt Mullenweg has managed to turn what began as ... continue
Demand Media – the Myspace of online content, or blogging by the numbers

Demand Media – the Myspace of online content, or blogging by the numbers

Right from the top I have to own up to the fact that part of the post headline is a direct rip from Robert X Cringely' post the other day about what has to be the scummiest ... continue