Yesterday my godsons Jacob and Alex brought with them laughter and dancing stories. While Lidka and Christopher brought with them borsch and pirozky as well as a philosophical discussion on marriage and freedom. Every human freedom has its limits: we cannot falsely shout “fire” in a crowded theater nor knowingly print libelous stories about another person. In every aspect of our lives we accept limits to freedom, but in the case of the limits set by marriage we gain a great deal in return: longer, healthier lives; better sex; and decent children. Loyalty to spouse and children and relatives enhances our capacity to enjoy the freedom we have...
Blogs, podcasts & e-newsletters make it easy for anyone to be a journalist ... But just as the debut of desktop publishing led to some very ugly documents, these newer tools are spawning some very sloppy journalism, which does no good for the reputation of participatory media 10 Journalism Tips For Bloggers, Podcasters & Other E-Writers
The Blog, The Press, The Media: By-the-book New York Times blog
A top editor at the New York Times gives that newspaper's take on blogs, as reported in L.A. Observed:
Yesterday we launched a genuine, authentic, by-the-book New York Times blog. It’s Carpetbagger, by David Carr. It’s part of a new movie-awards-season web site called Red Carpet, which includes a bunch of things you won’t see in the newspaper, like weekly columns by Joyce Wadler and Caryn James. You’ll see a refer on today’s front page, which I boldly, if ignorantly, declare to be our first-ever page-1 refer to a web-only feature. At the very least, it’s our first-ever page 1 refer to a blog.
• We’re blogospheric. [ TV Scoop, blog on UK television ; What I Wish I had Known]
• · Bog use has exploded in the last year, with an unpredictable and dramatic rise in both new users and new services. Jeffrey Henning describes this leap in his new study The Blogging Geyser, surveying the field as it stands now and predicting a total of 53.4 million blogs by year's end.
Read the earlier study, The Blogging Iceberg, to learn why the common conception of blogs--imagining them to be regularly updated, op-ed style columns written by a public figures and read by thousands--is only accurate on the surface.Keep up with the continuing dialogue about these studies, and other analyses of the blogosphere, by reading Blog Survey; Yahoo has added the popular del.icio.us social bookmarking, recommendation website to its growing stable of community-driven internet properties Yahoo gobbles up del.icio.us ; How alternative media have transformed politics on the left and the right ; The Media Dragon Loves us
• · · WSJ ; The Many Blogospheres – A Few Niche Blogs
• · · · If I Didn't Build it, They Wouldn't Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered (Alive) in Watertown, MA ; Fortune Magazine's Innovation Weblog
• · · · · Investor relations and blogging ; Need to find an expert? This list has over 100 blogs listed Weblogs published by industry analysts
• · · · · · DIY $100 Laptop ; Ad dollars threaten bloggers' rebel reputations