Tag Archives: blogging
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 — at [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, Ethics Also tagged e-mail, interviews, journalism, Social Media Comments closed
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 sense, [...]
Posted in New Media, The Human Condition Also tagged attention, blogs, John Naughton, Memex, writing Comments closed
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.
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
A self-serving idea