Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

9/16 Webcast: Blogging, Journalism and Reality, 12:30 p ET

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Tuesday’s (9/16) Berkman Center lunch is, as the title suggestions, about blogging, journalism, and reality. Tune into the webcast. It’s too late to RSVP for the lunch. (One of these days, I’ll post one of these notices so there’s enough time to RSVP and attend.)
Blogging, Journalism and Reality
Persephone Miel, Berkman Fellow
Tuesday, September 16, 12:30PM
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NELINET IT Conference 2008 – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? Bryant University Oct 10

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

NELINET is hosting it’s IT Conference 2008 – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island on Friday, October 10, 2008:
“This year’s IT Conference – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? will feature exciting new developments, updates and improvements to Web 2.0 tools in the library world and beyond. Attendees [...]

Cape Cod Blogger Sued for Libel

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Some folks are suing a Cape Cod Today blogger for libel because of the words he used when discussing who’s responsible for not dredging the waterway. The number of lawsuits against bloggers, especially for libel, is increasing.

Understanding Your Legal Risks When You Blog or Publish Online

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

David Ardia of the Citizen Media Law Project had an excellent posting called “Understanding your legal risks when you blog or publish online”:
“Every time you publish something online, whether it’s a news article, blog post, podcast, video, or even a user comment, you open yourself up to potential legal liability. This shouldn’t come as too [...]

City Spokesman Participates in Online Community to Reach Citizens

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The Boston Globe discusses the spokesman for Somerville, Massachusetts, and his attempts to reach citizens via a community on LiveJournal in which city residents share blog posts. Despite some people finding his participation helpful, after some of his attempts to do good didn’t work quite as he hoped, he discontinued his blog.

Pew Internet Project: Blogging and Blog Readership Stats

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The Pew Internet Project has new spring stats on blogging and blog readership:
“Blog reading
In our spring tracking survey we took two new measurements of blog reading, each of which captures a slightly different set of behaviors. Our first measure of blog readership uses the present-tense question, “Do you ever read someone else’s online journal or [...]

Scientific American: Blogging: It’s good for you

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The May issue of Scientific American has an article called “Blogging–It’s good for you: the therapeutic value of blogging becomes a focus of study”:
“Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving [...]

Blogger Gathering at Wild Ginger in Seattle, um, Now

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I was going to try to make the blogger gathering at Wild Ginger in Seattle this evening, but I don’t think I should try to do that with the News Division banquet starting at 6 p. The two are far enough apart that the timing just won’t work out for me to do both, especially [...]

AP Grapples with Bloggers Quoting Articles

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

“On Friday, The A.P. issued a statement defending its action, saying it was going to challenge blog postings containing excerpts of A.P. articles ‘when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.’ An A.P. spokesman declined Friday to further explain the association

Starwatching xkcd

Friday, May 30th, 2008

xkcd is awesome. Here’s another bright one from Randall about blogging.


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