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Tuesday, December 21, 2004



Every now and then super-search-engine Google changes the way they rank results. For quite a while now the system they had in place has worked in our favour: type in a book title and the author's name and, if we have the book under review, chances were very, very good our review-page would be one of the top few results. But last week things changed, and that is no longer the case. Google dance: There isn't actually a name for whats wrong with the steps [Same with Media Dragon - without being ranked highly by Google our kingdom is dead; Blogstreet is still ranking us highly, but without Google Media Dragon Is No More

The Blog, The Press, The Media: The ruthless old media dragon
Gallup finds journalists not trusted, but research indicates some highly developed moral reasoning.

The American public thinks journalists are ethically challenged, according to a Gallup Poll. Yet another study shows journalists have highly developed abilities when it comes to moral reasoning. What gives?
First the studies. The American public doesn't trust reporters. This according to Gallup's most recent poll rating of perceived honesty among certain professions. Less than 25 percent of the people who responded the survey rated reporters' ethical standards as high or very high.


Journalists: More Ethical than People Realize? [ Ten examples of bad journalism ]
• · John Jerome: Only writing secret I know - for shrinking a project to manageable size How do you eat a dragon?
• · · 10 Things We Learned About Blogs ; [If you're going to peddle opinions for a living, self-assurance is essential. If you don't have it, you need to bluff. People don't want to read a lot of - Oh dear, this is so terribly complicated, I just can't make up my poor little mind Many's the pundit who has retired on full disability after developing a tragic tendency to see both sides of the issue ]
• · · · Iraqi Bloggers, In the News And Critiquing It
• · · · · Puff the Media Dragon ; [Warhol’s 15 Minutes: has everything but Bela Lugosi declaiming Bevare! Bevare the media dragon! although De Niro is almost at the level of Lugosi these days: He pulls faces, he grimaces, he parrots his old schtick]
• · · · · · Popdex Citations Your BlogStreet or Mine: Who's in your Neighborhood?