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  Blog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The next crucial generation of bloggers will be compelled to democratize communications with the facilitation of technology that can manage A Technique of Democracy which is needed to "form a more perfect Union" as the First Americans envisioned in the Constitution of the United States.
Bloggers began to provide nearly-instant commentary on televised events, creating a secondary meaning of the word "blogging": to simultaneously transcribe and editorialize speeches and events shown on television.
This is viewed by many bloggers as the advent of blogs' acceptance by the mass media both as a source of news and opinion and as means of applying political pressure.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloggers   (3384 words)

  
 AlterNet: MediaCulture: Blogger Planet
The bloggers, happy for the attention and a little taken aback by it, are still trying to maintain their anti-establishment cred, however awkward it may be.
Bloggers, he and the others suggested, were on the forefront of a journalistic revolution.
Bloggers are having their big moment at last, but with the deck stacked slightly against them.
www.alternet.org /mediaculture/19353   (1096 words)

  
 Poynter Online - What Bloggers Can Learn From Journalists
Bloggers need to eat their vegetables, too, if they expect to grow up and win the respect of larger audiences and survive the rigors of long-term publishing.
Bloggers publishing without the protection of an employer to pay for their libel defense are on their own should they make a mistake.
Bloggers need only to look at the ethical standards developed by various journalism groups to get ideas on important issues to be included in a bloggers' guide.
www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=75665   (1532 words)

  
 On Bloggers and Money
Some bloggers also disclose their financial relationships with candidates, but they are not obliged to reveal those payments, and the agency recently said it is not proposing requiring them to do so.
"The problem is that it's not going to be clear when a blogger is speaking in his or her capacity as a paid employee or consultant to a campaign and when they happen to be an employee or consultant and are blogging on their own," he said.
Some political bloggers say disclaimers are unnecessary because most of them make no attempt to hide their support or opposition to individual candidates.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050201309_pf.html   (995 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Democrat convention credentials bloggers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
More than 50 bloggers met last Tuesday's deadline to apply for the Democratic National Convention credentials, of which an undetermined number will be selected based on originality, readership level and professionalism, said convention spokeswoman Lina Garcia.
Colette D. Marine, a 35-year-old Chicago blogger trying to get credentialed for the July 26-29 gathering in Boston, fortified her application with a brief essay and samples of previous postings after the Democrats asked for more material.
Some bloggers, however, are skeptical of the value of the cash outlays involved in attending the conventions — even though some earn hundreds of dollars a month from advertisements on their Web sites.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-21-convention-bloggers_x.htm   (845 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bloggers seeking protection from federal regulators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Moulitsas also is working with a lawyer who volunteered to help bloggers fight new government regulations and whose efforts were promoted in a PR firm press release Monday.
Bloggers fear that will mean new, unique limits on their activities, even though several of the commission's six members have indicated they have no desire to go beyond what the judge has ordered them to do.
Bloggers view whatever happens at the commission as just the first step in their quest to remain free of government oversight.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-06-28-bloggers_x.htm?csp=34   (712 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Bloggers' 'victory' over Iraq war memos
Bloggers, keen to keep the pressure on the Bush and Blair governments, have tried to keep the memos in the limelight and put pressure on the mainstream media.
The bloggers of DailyKos and many liberal allies in the blogosphere tried to play up the memo while conservative blogs such as Blogs for Bush heaped scorn on their arguments and said there was no new information in the memo.
Bloggers have had some success in getting the press and some members of Congress interested in the memo, says Professor Michael Cornfield who has studied the emerging impact of blogs on politics in the US.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4099120.stm   (831 words)

  
 ABC News: People of the Year: Bloggers
Bloggers around the world have made themselves useful, encouraging donations to relief groups, posting the names of the missing and expressing sympathy for the victims.
This year, for the first time, bloggers were permitted to cover the national political conventions firsthand.
Bloggers have taken the lead over traditional media on a number of stories, including racist remarks made by then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., at former Sen. Strom Thurmond's birthday party.
abcnews.go.com /WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=372266&page=1   (347 words)

  
 EFF: Bloggers
Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers) - We're battling for legal and institutional recognition that if you engage in journalism, you're a journalist, with all of the attendant rights, privileges, and protections.
Bloggers have the right to stay anonymous - We're continuing our battle to protect and preserve your constitutional right to anonymous speech online, including providing a guide to help you with strategies for keeping your identity private when you blog.
Bloggers have freedom from liability for hosting speech the same way other web hosts do - We're working to strengthen Section 230 liability protections under the Communications Decency Act (CDA) while spreading the word that bloggers are entitled to them.
www.eff.org /bloggers   (345 words)

  
 Wired News: Blogs Make the Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Blogger software, up from 343,000 a year ago -- Lott's bile is one of several issues that this burgeoning community helped push on to the national agenda.
Bloggers were the only ones to pay attention to these events in the United States.
In fact, the biggest interest that bloggers seem to have is blogging itself, said MIT Media Lab researcher Cameron Marlow, who tracks such things on the Blogdex website.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,56978,00.html   (830 words)

  
 La Shawn Barber’s Corner » Bloggers
That’s why I was taken aback by Kathleen Parker’s latest column, Lord of the Blogs, where she likens some bloggers to the marooned little (murderous) souls in Lord of the Flies.
As a blogger who’s been the subject of nasty and false statements made by bloggers and in comment sections by anonymous cowards, I know what people are capable of saying when they get caught up in online anonymity.
Bloggers persist no matter their contributions or quality, though most would have little to occupy their time were the mainstream media to disappear tomorrow.
lashawnbarber.com /archives/category/bloggers   (1934 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
Bloggers have the freedom to decide on their own when a story stops being a story.
Bloggers are certainly not as rough as the splenetic pamphleteers of the 18th and 19th centuries, who amused themselves accusing Thomas Jefferson of sexual perfidy and Andrew Jackson of having married a whore.
Someone is going to address the "bloggers are untrained journalists" question by looking at exactly what "training," what education in the art/science/craft/profression of journalism, the reporters and editors of the MSM have had in the past 60 years or so.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pnoonan?id=110006302&ojrss=frontpage   (1665 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | American media vs the blogs
Some see the bloggers as an explosion of free speech, a democratic counterbalance to media arrogance and a much needed call for greater transparency in the media, while others see bloggers as vigilante partisans bent on discrediting and destroying the media.
Bloggers quickly set up a site calling for a release a transcript of the session, and Mr Jordan found himself in the middle of a blogswarm as the online pressure intensified.
One thing both bloggers and some journalists can agree on is that business as usual is over in the American media.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4279229.stm   (845 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Bloggers knew! by Kathleen Parker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bloggers love fact-checking television and newspaper reporters and commentators, for instance, and have proved themselves both energetic and competent on both fronts.
Fueling the fire in the earliest stages were most notably Power Line (www.powerlineblog.com) and Little Green Footballs (www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog), which ran the just-discovered memos through some simple tests to verify their authenticity.
Key to the unraveling of CBS's hyped documents, as bloggers pointed out, were the superscript 'th' and the Times New Roman font used in the alleged Killian memo, both of which seem to belong to a rather modern Microsoft Word default letter-writing program rather than a 1972-era typewriter.
www.townhall.com /columnists/kathleenparker/kp20040915.shtml   (885 words)

  
 Salon.com Technology | Much ado about blogging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Many in this generation of bloggers -- including Sullivan, Salon contributor Joshua Micah Marshall, Slate contributor Mickey Kaus and others -- are pros themselves, reveling in the free form and flow of the blogging life as an addition to, rather than a substitute for, their writing careers.
Or when Amsterdam-based blogger Adam Curry (the former MTV host) rails at the media for mischaracterizing the assassinated politican Pim Fortuyn as a Dutch le Pen.
Bloggers goof all the time, too, of course, but they're generally not sanctimonious about their own accuracy to begin with, and they typically admit mistakes and move on.
www.salon.com /tech/col/rose/2002/05/10/blogs/print.html   (1725 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bloggers get convention credentials - Jul 23, 2004
But most of these bloggers (short for Web loggers) don't fit the profile of a traditional journalist on the campaign trail.
Whatever the political leanings of the bloggers, most agree that the new power of the blogosphere is what drives much of the Internet: interactivity.
Blogger Glenn Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
edition.cnn.com /2004/TECH/internet/07/23/conventionbloggers   (730 words)

  
 bloggers
bloggers, namedrop sitespaces.net with a clickable url link, send me a link to your blog and your paypal to necrorising_AT_videotron.ca and I'll get the first 10 that do $5 to do with what you please.
For one I am a blogger, for two the blog is on a company server, no advertising, and for three i haven't posted in a long time.
So if bloggers can't be coerced, that means that bloggers are not commercially viable in any capacity.
channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=116829   (1741 words)

  
 Are bloggers journalists? Do they deserve press protections? | csmonitor.com
In the small universe of powerful bloggers, Joshua Micah Marshall and John Hinderaker are separated by 900 miles and an even wider political divide.
Bloggers, some observers say, are becoming major players in everything from national politics to consumer trends.
Now in California, a court will soon decide whether bloggers have the same legal protections as journalists under "shield" laws that protect reporters from revealing their sources.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0202/p03s02-usju.html   (892 words)

  
 Easongate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hugh states the focus was the blogger's credibility, not the assualt on our military, Eason Jordan's remarks, the media's intransigence in investigating or the current cover up of a tape.
The media has accepted the resignation of Eason Jordan without question, and has portrayed the pursuit of the truth by bloggers as a lynch mob with a political agenda.
When a prince of the media is purported to have slandered American troops without cause, the guardians of the truth impugn bloggers as pursuing a witch-hunt.
billroggio.com /easongate   (2947 words)

  
 blogs overview
There are 3032 Manhattan bloggers on the map.
There are 1799 Brooklyn bloggers on the map.
There are 234 Bronx bloggers on the map.
www.nycbloggers.com /fullmap.asp   (50 words)

  
 Christian Bloggers: Join Christian Bloggers
Christian Bloggers is a community of Christian Bloggers who have come together with their brothers and sisters in Christ.
Blogger users do not have to send me their RSS feed, unless they prefer using something other than their Atom feed.
Blogger users should have Site Feed set to "yes" and their description set to "short" in their Settings.
blogsbychristians.blogspot.com /2005/06/join-christian-bloggers.html   (769 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Nightline on blogging Tuesday
If Nightline had really leaned anything from bloggers, they'd permanently archive their newsletters and they'd already be promoting this on their site.
The bloggers refuse to disclose the identity of their sources (who are likely Apple employees) and are asking for the same legal protection as journalists.
Nightline on Blogs: The Nightline story on blogging is hardly news, as bloggers have been blogging it for awhile.
blogcritics.org /archives/2005/03/08/152743.php   (1688 words)

  
 CBS News | Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism | November 8, 2004 15:30:22
The difference is that the bloggers aspire to being a force in our public life and claim to be at the forefront of a new political-media era.
It was clear to me, from following their efforts that night, that, unlike journalists, some blog operators who are quick to trash the MSM not only don’t care about the veracity of the stories they are spreading, they do not understand when there is a live hand grenade on their keyboard.
One of the verdicts rendered by election night 2004 is that, given their lack of expertise, standards and, yes, humility, the chances of the bloggers replacing mainstream journalism are about as good as the parasite replacing the dog it fastens on.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/11/08/opinion/main654285.shtml   (1181 words)

  
 GOP Bloggers
GOP Bloggers is not affiliated with the Republican National Committee or GOP.com.
GOP Bloggers receives no financial contributions or support from the Republican National Committee.
Material published and opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the individual authors and are not meant to represent the Republican National Committee, or any of its affiliates.
www.gopbloggers.org   (2474 words)

  
 The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > The Internet: Web Diarists Are Now Official Members of ...
Even as many networks are reducing their coverage of the increasingly predictable political conventions, the political blogs, which have become a fruitful alternative for individual voices, have been ablaze over the prospect of officially covering conventions for the first time.
The question facing many of the bloggers, who do most of their work without venturing from their desks, is how exactly they will cover a live convention.
The bloggers predict that they will provide coverage on issues too narrow for mainstream news media, while offering an irreverent eye on the media-political complex and gossipy accounts of behind-the-scenes convention life.
www.nytimes.com /2004/07/26/politics/campaign/26blog.html?ex=1248580800&en=202b0c59de80c447&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (886 words)

  
 Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogosphere
Many bloggers are discussing and remembering that day and the survivors.
One possibility is that bloggers could set up a seperate "blog" for posting items like classifieds, help wanted ads and dating profiles using Structure Blogging formats but it sounds like a lot of extra work when these services already exist.
Many bloggers probably update their blogs at work while they are on the clock working for somebody else.
www.bloggersblog.com   (7157 words)

  
 Wired News: When the Spam Hits the Blogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Curious bloggers who click on a logged link to see who visited their site are instead led to pornography or advertising sites.
Unsurprisingly, bloggers are not thrilled, even though they ruefully admit that the log spamming may falsely boost their ranking on some search engines.
When they first realized their referral logs were being spammed, most bloggers wondered what the point of such a seemingly limited spam campaign could be.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,56017,00.html   (900 words)

  
 PDC Bloggers
We thought it would be cool to have a place to connect bloggers interested in the event: whether or not they are attending the event.
At a minimum, this will allow PDC bloggers to download the list, import and monitor each others blogs, and enjoy enhanced connectivity with each other.
Good question, one goal when we created PDC Bloggers was to not require any changes to your blog and how you post to your blog.
pdcbloggers.net /FAQ.aspx   (905 words)

  
 FrederickClarkson.com
One portent of the future importance of the political bloggers is that Tim Schofield, who is leading the pack in the crowded field in the democratic primary for the 18th Suffolk district (Allston, Brighton and Brookline), links to blog coverage of his campaign alongside mainstream press clips on his web site.
Nohomissives is the elder statesman of the progressive democratic bloggers in Massachusetts -- having gone live in July of 2002.
We bloggers have played an important role, I think, in the run up to the March 15th Democratic primaries in the three special elections for state representative.
www.frederickclarkson.com /2005/03/progressive-democratic-blogging-in-ma.html   (601 words)

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