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From the founder and CEO of Technorati’s posting today: “Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That’s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four …
Bloggers Look for “Sunshine” on Public Access to Government Documents – FreeCulture.org announces Blogshine Sunday “On March 13, news organizations across the United States will participate in “Sunshine Sunday” by running stories and editorials in support of public access to government information. Simultaneously, bloggers throughout the U.S. and beyond will spotlight their own experiences with …
Politology: “…this weblog is specifically about both politics and technology, including (but not limited to) the intersection between the two subjects…In addition, we’ll be using this site specifically to launch new political technology media. Whether it is animations, interactive web applications, graphics, offline publications, or even games, it’s likely to pop up on these pages …
140 Kaiser patients’ private data put online: “In a troubling episode involving medical privacy in the digital age, Kaiser Permanente is notifying 140 patients that a disgruntled former employee posted confidential information about them on her Weblog.”
Blogs Not Yet in the Media Big Leagues – Very few Americans read them with any frequency: “Three-quarters of the U.S. public uses the Internet at work, school, or home, but only one in four Americans are either very familiar or somewhat familiar with blogs. More than half, 56%, have no knowledge of them. Even …
From The Globe and Mail (via Connie Crosby), this article describes how video clips drive considerable traffic to even small blogs. In addition, it notes the potentially significant impact of vlogs on e-commerce, political discourse and news in general. And don’t forget the video search engines as well. Also from The Globe, see Multimedia blogs …
From Roll Call today (subscription req’d) this article abstract: “FEC May Exempt Bloggers – Amid a growing hysteria sweeping the Internet over the idea that the Federal Election Commission intends to crack down on bloggers, some FEC officials say they are open to creating an exemption for those who maintain Web logs to ensure they …
We Need Spy Blogs – An Army officer calls for better information gathering.
Look Who’s Blogging – How five executives got blog religion and are using it to their professional and personal advantage.
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From Lynn Lenart at the University of Akron School of Law, her Law Library Pathfinder to Law Blogs – Blawgs. Thank you for including beSpacific. “The purpose of this pathfinder…is to provide a starting point for law students and law faculty interested in identifying blogs they wish to monitor or to provide basic information for …
The New York Times reports that Garrett M. Graff, editor of FishbowlDC, has been issued a press pass by the White House. Better yet, read Garrett’s chronicle of how the events unfolded.
