I could go on and on how great the Bondi Bay swim was and how goosebumpy it is to have beer with Mick, Mat, Polly ;-), Michael, Robbie, etc ... I live and I love Bondi ...
We have a rather romantic conception of bloggers; we envision Eugene Volokh, but most bloggers are probably more akin to Jessica Cutler, the U.S. Senate staffer who blogged about sex gossip. The average blogger is a teenager writing an online diary, not a scholar or amateur journalist. We see blogging as something that enhances freedom, expression, and self-development. But when blogging places gossip online, gossip transforms from being localized and forgettable to being permanent and widespread. A Tale of Two Bloggers: Free Speech and Privacy in the Blogosphere
Mathias Döpfner, head of the Axel Springer publishing empire, answers a speech by media magnate Rupert Murdoch. The future of journalism
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Where the Truth Lies: trust and morality in PR and journalism
Julia Hobsbawm is, by instinct and professional self- interest, a peacemaker.
She sits comfortably in a world of forums and summits and international conferences. Recently, she set up an organisation called Editorial Intelligence, which promised to bring together the best minds in journalism and PR. It was a grown-up but false proposition, and naturally it ended in a great big punch-up. Some journalists claimed that the commercial nature of the venture - disguised lobbying - had not been made clear.
• Is Editorial Intelligence a microcosm of the doomed relationship between PR and journalism? [Attention all Pearl Jam fans Google has 16 official blogs. ; Google Cartography Google Maps Like You've Never Seen 'Em ; The 48 Hour Film Project 2006 Tour ; A new report finds that people under 35 get the majority of international and national news from Web portals News ]
• · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel would have made an excellent opinion journalist. Of course, the Romantic idealist philosopher didn’t spend much time waxing quarrelsome for the local paper – though he was briefly a newspaper editor. But Hegel articulated a theory of history that is, today, the basis for every good opinion piece The Craft of Having an Opinion ; Daryl Hannah makes a splash with her new eco-blog A Blond Walks Into a Blog ... ; Social Networks Attract Nearly Half Of All Web Users
• · · Google Co-op Yes, we are still all about search ; Google's Non-Search Properties Still Struggling
• · · · Politics Lost: The media is to blame, too Have Evil Political Consultants Corrupted American Politics? ; As if governed by a calendar set to the base-five system, the average American magazine puts everything aside every half decade to throw itself a very public party in its own pages Auto-Editorial Stimulation; Jason Kottke notes the difference between the New York Times most blogged and most emailed articles - the most blogged is far more political than the most emailed. What we blog, email and search for
• · · · · Building a Better Doghouse Mainstream liberals take on the media ; David Plotz blogs the first few chapters of the Bible Lot's daughters get pregnant as a result of this incest and bear sons named Moab and Ben-Ammi
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