What began as the ultimate outsider activity—a way to break the newspaper and TV stranglehold on the gathering and dissemination of information—is turning into the same insider’s game played by the old establishment media the bloggerati love to critique. The more blogs you read and the more often you read them, the more obvious it is: they’ve fallen in love with themselves, each other, and the beauty of what they’re creating. The cult of media celebrity hasn’t been broken by the Internet’s democratic tendencies; it’s just found new enabling technology Terry Teachout on culture in the age of blogging
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Bloggers Without Borders : Thick skin has its rewards
Aren't reporters without borders citizens of the world? The questions rise anew: in journalism is there a craft identity not based in the category of nation, and are there universals in a practice like reporting the news?
Our new world of weblogs and citizens' media is all about possibilities -- many of them unrealized, I grant -- while the world of the big, old media is increasingly about worry: fretting over declining revenue, resources, audience, quality, trust. That is one good reason for big media to embrace the small, rather than trying to recapture the old: It's optimistic, energetic, new, open, growing, and fun; it's the medium in the better mood and that's catching. In short: Bloggers make better barmates.
There were over 2,000 credentialed media here in Santa Maria covering the trial, and as with high school, there was a definite pecking order. All the cliques were represented: the hotties, smart people, rebels and burnouts. Like high school, everyone was keenly aware of where they stood on the social ladder, and spent most of their time obsessing over it. Here's a handy guide (which you can clip and use for future celebrity trials)
• One Tribe in Press Nation: PressThink Wins an Award; [Parliamentary Press Gallery from SMH stars to the shadow nobodies inside the AAP Baristanet Exclusive; State of the art]
• · Abolish Michael Kinsley! Why editorial pages are obsolete ; It used to be that the longest unprotected border in the world was that between the United States and Canada. Today it's the one between fact and fiction. If the two cozy up any closer together The National Enquirer will be out of business The Interactive Truth
• · · Communications minister Helen Coonan yesterday confirmed what Crikey predicted a few weeks ago – that the government plans to water down the media ownership laws this year. Senator Helen Coonan has a lot on her plate A Conversation with the Minister; Between Lawyers Dennis re How is a Blog Like a Legal File?
• · · · Michael Jackson case as a replay of the Victorian era’s great sex trial? Not So Wilde: A little analogy is a dangerous thing ; Teen blogs on forced trip to ‘ex-gay’ camp
• · · · · Google's grip on the Australian online search advertising market is about to tighten, with the launch of a new function that will enable clients to choose the websites on which they want to advertise Google puts new spin on net ads ; Google is today a diverse, mighty and seemingly omnipresent force ... Once simply a little engine that could, Google is today a diverse, mighty and seemingly omnipresent force. It is the brand name for finding stuff on the web, a master of infusing itself into our lives and is constantly rolling out innovative services to keep us hooked Searching for gold ; Tim Porter When do newspapers still have the edge on breaking news?
• · · · · · London's biggest stockmarket float for years has been overshadowed by advice from Washington that the four dotcom millionaires behind the venture risk arrest and prosecution in the United States US to crash $11bn online poker party ; Washingtonienne's hard-earned rise to the middle Meretrixocracy ; A profile of Ana Marie Cox, aka Wonkette: Glimpses