Category Archives: Weblogs

Dana Stevens, television critic for Slate, recently wrote about how television media chooses to cite blogs in their news coverage. I have yet to see the blog coverage on CNN or MSNBC, but it seems like they have the wrong approach to including this new medium. We witness cross-media citations all the time. News organizations care about who broke the news and who had the best commentary and the best sources are usually cited multiple times on big stories. Newspapers or radio stations often break stories and CNN reports on these breaking stories just as they would their own original…

Next Monday The New York Times will introduce a new Business Day section with a regular feature about the world of blogs written by David Carr. On Mondays, Business Day will focus on media and marketing news, with technology included as it relates to those industries. David Carr will write a column on new media; the world of blogs will be covered as a regular feature.Technorati Tags: nytimes…

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has some new statistics available from its survey of 2,871 internet users from January 2005 through March 2005. 9% of internet users now say they have created blogs. 6% of the entire U.S. adult population have created blogs. 25% of internet users say they read blogs. The number of adult readers of blogs is about 40% of the size of the talk radio audience. The blog-reading audience is about 20% of the size of the newspaper-reading population. I will comment more once the full report is available….

John Battelle recently announced his new company named FM Publishing to act as a publisher for more authors in similar ways to his role as band manager at Boing Boing. I plan to partner with site authors, acting as a platform which provides important services to them – revenue (in the form of advertising), back end support, and the like.

Intelliseek and Edelman partnered to create a white paper on weblogs.

Students at Proctor High School in Vermont can no longer write weblog posts at school. School officials are concerned for the safety of the children posting personal data online that could be used by an Internet predator.

Much to my surprise, Dare Obasanjo came up to me and told me, after some fairly vitriolic complaining from me to him about this earlier state of affairs, that he wished I’d continue to post. I thought about this over the weekend and decided that to some degree, you have to take your chances in this environment rather than just hide when you don’t like the behavior and that perhaps I was being over sensitive anyway.

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Jim Winstead officially placed blo.gs up for sale today.

and Flickr are still in negotiations over purchase price and no final agreement has been reached. A high level source within Yahoo told SiliconValleyWatcher that the two companies are in negotiations over the purchase price and that as of late Friday night Pacific Time, no final agreement had yet been reached.