Tuesday, August 09, 2005



The News-Observer's John Robinson has published Standards and Practices for bloggers on his paper's website. These are things all of us should be thinking about and worth repeating: Make fun of no one except yourself ... Play nice with the local bloggers Great rules for newspaper bloggers
Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?
Dan Gillmor's We the Media shows how blogging, the Short Message System (SMS), and corollary technologies like Really Simple Syndication (RSS) are creating A new and vital kind of journalism

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Mark Steyn — mug?
Mark Steyn argues that multiculturalists have been mugged by reality following the London tube bombing, but has the man who styles himself 'the one-man global content provider' been a mug to believe Johnelle Bryant's amazing tale?

With hindsight the defining encounter of the age was not between Mohammed Atta's jet and the World Trade centre on Sept 11th, 2001, but that between Mohammed Atta and Johnelle Bryant a year earlier ... On June 2, Atta travelled to the Czech Republic by bus from Germany and then flew from Prague to Newark the next day


People to blame [The Tele's exclusive tales ; The Sun Herald's amazing subs ]
• · Public opinion on responses to terrorism is more complex than many people claim Polling reveals the middle ground ; US bias Legislative Research Guides & Sources; Congressional Research Service Reports
• · · Blogging Bond: Our Neighbours ; Finders Keepers Findory
• · · · A week without Scobleizer has been like a months without sunshine Back from blog vacation ; John Quiggin Anonymous comment under threat ; Amnesty International USA staked a claim in the blogosphere last month with three online journals dedicated to topics that do not exactly make for a fun read Blogging About Violence, Torture And Death
• · · · · Joel's editor Sydney Trent threatens to Kill the blog Quarter to midnight at Achenblog ; Thinking Outside the Search Box
• · · · · · Lucas Heights nervous about Google gander ; Marketing and spin: journalism's big challenge