Friday, April 15, 2005



Truth comes from triangulating many different points of view. Truth doesn't come from the authorized knowers.
-Jay Rosen It seems like old times again so what's extraordinary is that Rupert Murdoch is beginning to sing from the blogger's hymnbook: Blogs' Latest Champion: Rupert Murdoch

We linked to the speech by Rupert Murdoch yesterday and today The esteemed Editor & Publisher magazine has a fearless headline Murdoch: Newspapers Must Stop Fearing Web. The story throws a hook to the digital surfers and immigrants on the net: "I didn't do as much as I should have after all the [Internet] excitement of the late 1990s. I thought this thing called the digital revolution would just limp along. Well, it hasn't. It is a fast-developing reality that we should grasp to improve our journalism and expand our reach."
Murdoch tells editors to embrace Media Dragons (Microsoft spell check suggestion for ‘Imrich’ is ‘embrace’ ;-) and the bloggers Rupert Wants Online--Again

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Let Us Prey? Media Dragon v.Yahoo 'Hybrid'
The Freedom Blog awards, which celebrate blogs worldwide that have campaigned against censorship, are rolling into action Voting opens for the Freedom Blog awards
Trying to understand the complex relationship between bloggers and search engines has become my own personal Waterloo.

In a contest between man and machine, traditional news Web sites are facing competition from online challengers that employ computers as editors -- Google Inc. being the prime example.
But challenging them all is the news site of Yahoo Inc., a hybrid that pairs human oversight with automation and serves up news from multiple sources. In six of the past 14 months, Yahoo's news site has drawn more unique visitors than any rival, displacing longtime news leader CNN.com, according to research firm Nielsen/NetRatings.


We ignore blogs at our peril ... Stealing some of newspapers' role in the community? One commentator, Jeff Jarvis, puts it this way: give the people control of media, they will use it. Don't give people control of media, and you will lose them.
Making News: information wants to be free [; It can be tough to train journalists how to be bloggers ; Google: on Uncle Rupert ]
• · Although George W Bush is just months into his second term, politicians have already launched their campaigns on the internet for next year's mid-term elections. US politicians embrace podcasts ; The A.P. is using photographers who have relationships with the terrorists Blogs Incensed Over Pulitzer Photo Award
• · · How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good- Mark Twain; The challenges of the online world by Rupert Murdoch: Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington DC, April 13, 2005
Deep, deep local news. Relevant national and international news. Commentary and Debate. Gossip and humor. But our internet site will have to do still more to be competitive ; 2002 AD Blogworld
• · · · Google vs. News Inc. ; It's a journalist's job to ask questions, but they're usually aimed at outsiders Blog-o-mania Hits Newspapers
• · · · · Who said I like Media Dragon? The kind and generous stranger, Jay Rosen, author of "What Are Journalists For?" and founder of the public journalism movement will be speaking at the 2005 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures from 29 April to 12 May. My old Professors who awarded me with the BA back in 1991 scored this great scorcard. Ach, if only the multitalented Patricia Azarias was still the Director of the PAC you would be able to meet some of the speakers in Sydney. Anyway Melbourne is a winner with its series entitled Innovation: Everyone, Everyday, Everywhere Lecture Series To Explore The Big Issues Of Our Time ; Warning PDF version ahead Shawn Callahan in the paper below discusses how blogging can help sales support people provide better assistance to the sales force and customers. Using content to create connections among people - courtesy of Patti Anklam Distinctions in the domain of complexity - via one and only Bill Ives; Google's Blogger is home to some eight million blogs, more than any other hosting service, reports MarketWatch The Blogging Geyser: Blogger Top Blog Host
• · · · · · Blog Report Report: Giants Among Men ; Criminals create a blog on a legitimate host site, post viruses or keylogging software to the page, and attract traffic to the blog by sending a link through spam or instant messaging (IM) to a large number of recipients. In other cases, the blog can be used as a storage mechanism which keeps malicious code that can be accessed by a Trojan horse that has already been hidden on the user's computer Don't you know your blog's toxic?