Tag Archives: blogging

A self-serving idea

I have an idea for a new way to blog. I can’t be the first to think this idea up, but I’m too lazy to fig­ure out the key­words to begin search­ing the Web to find other peo­ple who’ve had this idea. Here goes: This would be a sin­gle blog post, the text of which is [...]
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The Man Is Gone, But Long Live The Blogosphere

Wikipedia says credit — or blame — for coin­ing “blo­gos­phere” goes to Brad Graham, a the­ater pub­li­cist and blog­ger in St. Louis who died this week at the age of 41. Look him up on Google and you’ll see: “Blogosphere” is his legacy. But thank good­ness, Graham was jok­ing when he first said it — [...]
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Who owns the e-mail interview?

Paul Bradshaw, writ­ing for Poynter, has raised some great ques­tions about inter­views con­ducted by e-mail. Bradshaw was inter­viewed by a reporter via e-mail. At the end of their exchange, Bradshaw asked the reporter if that per­son would mind if Bradshaw pub­lished the e-mail exchange to his blog as raw data. The jour­nal­ist minded, say­ing, even­tu­ally, that [...]
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Blogs and Web logs

John Naughton, on the dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for Web and writ­ing for print: The other dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for print and writ­ing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘fin­ished’ and dis­patched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a [...]
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NYT uses anonymous source to expose anonymous blogger but gets it wrong

The New York Times cited an anonymous source saying that David Blum was the person behind the NYTPicker blog, only to have Blum deny the allegation.
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