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Six online journalists and webloggers have been arrested in Iran recently in a crackdown on dissent on the internet Iran cracks down on blog protests
Evan Williams, founder of Pyra Labs, who allowed me from time to time comment on his blog is the man who launched extraordinarily popular Blogger service in 1999. I linked to his blog entry about his depature last week, but I only came aware of this entry in Motley Fool the traders behind Media Dragon shares today (thanks a million Jeff Myers). Evan is being sued by my family and friends (did I say friends - smile) for the blogging addiction which affects nearly one in a million of adults in the world Evan Williams at Bali or Nepal? Hardly!

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Well, that was a real snooze-a-thon
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• Bob Novak: View from the right
• Paul Begala: View from the left
• Jessi Klein: The Lighter Side
Bush didn't pee his pants or kill anyone, so my guess is that people will say it was a tie. Kerry was solid, in his usual, uninspired, A-student-that-memorized-the-text-book sort of way.
The most fun part was at the end when the families had to come up onstage and try to look all huggy and "normal," which tends to fail, since, like every family, both groups are clearly totally dysfunctional.
But after the kisses and handshaking they all kind of got in a line and waved to the crowd. It looked like the final bow at a mediocre community theater production of "Godspell." But that's basically what it feels like our country has turned into, so I guess that's appropriate. I don't mean to sound so pessimistic.
• CNN Blog ; [Blue reporter and Penn State senior Adam Smeltz was recruited by the Centre Daily Times' parent company, Knight Ridder, to cover the campaign trail. He reported on both national conventions and will follow the politicians through the Nov. 2 election Check out his blog - Centre Daily Times]
• · Richard Byrne: How the broadcast news organizations -- and their viewers -- went astray Books on the media
• · · Female Fox coworker details lewd behavior of cable TV star Bill O'Reilly is hit with a sexual harassment suit ; [A UCLA student's online journal is used in bid to discredit her claims that she was raped by a football player ]
• · · · NAOMI KLEIN Proposal to Assist the Government of Kuwait in Protecting and Realizing Claims Against Iraq James Baker's Double Life
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• · · · · · A freelance journalist, Richard Sleeman, was awarded $434,000 in damages today over an article in The Australian newspaper about a story he wrote on Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe The Water God