The Associated Press reports potential confidential sources for news stories are changing their minds about revealing information as a number of cases are forcing or trying to make journalists reveal secret sources.
"’The press simply cannot perform its intended role if its sources of information - particularly information about the government - are cut off,’ [New [...]
This very brief Newsweek article about Wikipedia tells how founder Jimmy Wales became interested in encyclopedias and how Wikipedia got its start. It also includes a quote from “professional researcher” Stephen Bolhafner at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.*
sj bills the photo as the best picture of Wales’ floating head.
*Look: I can type St. Louis and not [...]
I remembered that in my members section, a button suggests I can block members. Block members from what, I don’t know. I tried a combination of blocking and deleting the addresses of spammers. I have a feeling, though, that blocking didn’t work. When I clicked the box to block an e-mail address, the only thing [...]
It’s my turn to do clips for the office this weekend. Imagine my surprise when I came across the headline “A match made in bloggers’ heaven: Sorry, ladies. One of Toronto’s most public bachelors is spoken for” and realize the article is about, well, of course, who else: the Accordion Guy, Joey deVilla and Wendy [...]
I missed the book review that caused such a stir over on Journey of a Wannabe, which is too bad, but I’ve seen some of the resulting posts. Learning what to say in the blogosphere, how to react to angry commenters and flames, and when to delete posts is something we bloggers all go through. [...]
If I got click-through revenue from comment spam …
Hey Josh, here are some more ways information professionals/librarians can use blogs that might be worth mentioning in your upcoming presentation.
I see a few on the list I’m going to add to my presentation.
from Library Stuff
Since Thursday morning, I have received 51 blog comments. Two have been legitimate comments. The last thirty-six hours have been another record for getting hard hit with comment spam.
I checked the discussion groups of a few other blogs, but didn’t notice the same kind of spamming happening there. I don’t get it. Some spammers post [...]
The Scout Report profiles this American Society of Newspaper Editors Web site brimming with resources related to high school journalism.
I’ve been wondering when one of these was going to show up on the Web. You can type in some words to retrieve words meaning similar things, somewhat like a thesaurus, I suppose. This site will not only help those of us who forget words, but it could also be useful to people learning English.
I [...]