Category «Blogs»

Knight Science Journalism Tracker

“The Knight Science Journalism Tracker is a new Web-based service for journalists who cover science, environment and health… It’s a service of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships. Our goal is to provide a broad sampling of the past day’s stories in these areas and, where possible, of press releases or other news tips related to …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management

Air Force Funds Blog Study

“The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has begun funding a new research area that includes a study of blogs. Blog research may provide information analysts and warfighters with invaluable help in fighting the war on terrorism. Drs. Brian Ulicny, senior scientist, and Mieczyslaw Kokar, president, Versatile Information Systems Inc., Framingham, Mass., will receive approximately …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Law Professors and Blogging

The Law Professor as Public Intellectual, by Cynthia Cotts, The American Lawyer, June 1, 2006 Blawgs on a Roll – Legal reporting is sometimes decried as boring and inaccurate. But a band of savvy law professors have changed all that, by Dahlia Lithwick, The American Lawyer, June 1, 2006 Related article, New York Times, October …

Subjects: Blogs, Legal Research

Copy Editor Shines As Copy Blogger

American Journalism Review: Style Wars in Cyberspace – Copy editors take to the blogosphere. “The undisputed king of copy bloggers is Bill Walsh of the Washington Post, whose cantankerous posts on language, usage and style (theslot.blogspot.com) have won him a devoted following.”

Subjects: Blogs

LC Web Capture Project

“The Library of Congress preserves the nation’s cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library’s traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites…In 2004, the Library’s Office of Strategic …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

New on LLRX.com

Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?, by Susan Nevelow Mart Beyond Google and Yahoo: Advanced Search, by Tom Mighell and Sabrina I. Pacifici. CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com – Congressional Scandals, Corruption and Misbehavior, by Paul Jenks Setting …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing, RSS, Search Engines

Global Poll Ranks Media More Trustworthy Than Governments

BBC Poll, Trust in Media press release: “More people trust the media than their governments, especially in developing countries, according to a ten-country opinion poll for the BBC, Reuters, and The Media Center.” [thanks to D.C.] “National TV was the most trusted news source overall (trusted by 82%, with 16% not trusting it) – followed …

Subjects: Blogs