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• Fwix Aggregates Local News, Compensates Bloggers, Filling a Void

  BNET - 2009-12-04

  In the ongoing debate over the future of the media business, especially when it comes to news, the extremes tend to dominate, and not just ideologically. "The future is hyper-local." "The future is global." "Algorithms can do it all." (Google News.)...

  Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Advertisement, Extremes, Blogger, Fwix, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• Hacker Delivers Mixed Bag of Internal Twitter Docs to Blogger

  BNET - 2009-07-15

  TechCrunch got one of those gifts yesterday that every journalist dreams of -- a cache of 310 internal documents from Twitter that includes business projections, product plans, project pitches -- and also personal information about company employees, including co-founder Evan Williams and his wife. Thus, this is...

  Tags: Document, Journalist, Hacker, Twitter, Blogger, Michal Arrington, Internet, Hacking, Blogging, Branding, Security, Marketing, David Weir

• Blogging Issues: What Companies and Bloggers Face

  BNET - 2008-08-26

  As the Patent Troll Tracker libel suit shows, blogging can bring up some intricate legal issues. Bloggers like Dennis Crouch can find themselves facing subpoenas. A few years ago, Apple sued some bloggers that revealed the date of a new product release; the company wanted the source of the information....

  Tags: Journalist, Employee, Internet Service Provider, Blogger, Mayor John Smith, Blogging, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Erik Sherman

• Technology Will Save Newspapers, Right?

  BNET - 2008-07-30

  Posterous has only been a round a month so far, but it's already gaining adherents among bloggers, and in particular, micro-bloggers. The company offers a way for bloggers to go mobile and post via email or text messaging -- for free. Posterous is part of a broader movement to simplify...

  Tags: Journalist, Photograph, Blogger, Media Industry, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Telecommunications, Wireless, Internet, Marketing, David Weir

• Are Better Trained Bloggers Better For PR?

  BNET - 2008-06-16

  Blogs are the Wild West of new media opportunities for doing PR. Unlike old media, run by journalists with decades of experience and set ways of doing things, blogs are in their infancy, and even the ones run or written by former old media journalists are more or less unburdened...

  Tags: Journalist, Management, Jon Greer, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Business Ethics, Blogging, Public Relations, Blogger, Media, Ethics, Leadership

• Bloggers Use Filtering to Fight Back Against PR Spam

  BNET - 2008-05-12

  In brief: Email filtering is now starting to be used by bloggers to block and delete PR spam before it even reaches the intended recipient There really haven't been many consequences to spamming journalists with unwanted PR pitches -- until now. ...

  Tags: Agency, Blogger, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jon Greer, Journalist, Marketing, Public Relations, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing

• SPJ Sends Letter of Protest After NBA Owner Bans Bloggers From Locker Room

  - 2008-03-12

  Leaders of the Society of Professional Journalists expressed deep concern to National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern on Wednesday in response to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's new media policy concerning bloggers. According to a Dallas Morning News story, Cuban instituted a new policy that bans full-time bloggers from...

  Tags: blogger, Blogging, INTERNET, journalist, NBA

• Bloggers are not journalists, Lithuanian parliament says

  - 2007-03-27

  VILNIUS AFP — An Internet blogger in new EU member state Lithuania vowed Tuesday to fight a parliamentary decision refusing him accreditation on the grounds that he was not a legitimate journalist. "This decision does not allow me to enjoy the rights and protection other journalists are entitled to,"...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, blogger, Blogging, INTERNET, journalist

• US blogger jailed for keeping protest video tape free on bail

  - 2006-09-01

  SAN FRANCISCO, United States AFP — A US blogger has been freed on bail after spending a month in jail for refusing to give a federal grand jury raw video tape he took of a G8 summit protest that turned violent in San Francisco in July 2005. Josh Wolf, 24,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, blogger, journalist, MARKETING, summit, video, Wolf

• Dissident watch: Arash Sigarchi.(weblogger and journalist arrested in Iran)

  - 2005-09-22

  On January 17, 2005, Iranian security forces arrested 28-year-old Iranian journalist and weblogger Arash Sigarchi for espionage and insulting leaders of the Islamic Republic. Sigarchi, editor of the daily Gilan Emrooz (Gilan (1) Today), had antagonized regime officials with outspoken dissent on two blogs, dow of...

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