One of the joys of blogging is the serendipity. Kristine Lowe in Norway was taken by two headlines on the same day from the “lovely but slightly whacky place across the border’ — “One in four Swedes think astrology is a science” and “Drunken elk terrorises schoolkids”.
But she also wonders what foreigners who read Aftenpost [...]
It has been an interesting two weeks since I counted up the blogs in some British newspapers and asked, “What is the purpose of newspaper blogs?” I counted 99 at five newspapers and wrote:
Some of the offerings are very good but too many seem like ways of presenting traditional content in a “look we understand [...]
Shane Richmond, news editor of Telegraph.co.uk, is the paper’s top blogger. His technology blog is well ahead of any of the others published on the papers’ website, according to the Technorati rankings. Richmond is ranked 19,501 with 658 links from 160 blogs. Next in the list is the Brussels correspondent David Rennie with 321 [...]
A Washington Post photographer’s excursion into blogging has been short-lived. One of the two people producing “Wal-Marting Across America” has been revealed as Jim Thresher, a staff photographer on the paper.
The idea was to travel across the US in a recreational vehicle camping in the supermarket’s car parks. Sponsorship by Working Families for Wal-Mart was [...]
An investigative blogger has ended the short career of Sweden’s trade minister, Maria Borelius, after only eight days in office. Magnus Ljungkvist (in Swedish) revealed tax evasion by the minister of trade including not paying the payroll tax on a cleaning woman she hired in the 1990s.
In this case the blogger is also a journalist. [...]
As conspiracy theories go this one is pretty good — it’s not that George Bush is bad with words but that he is talking in code to the religious right. But, as Dan Brown has shown, people love to believe in secret codes.
I see it as a cautionary tale about bloggers and news agendas. There [...]
Any blogger or journalist who is not making use of RSS feeds is wasting a huge amount of time checking their favourite sites. Now Google has updated its online reader making it, in the words of the Telegraph’s Shane Richmond, “a much stronger product, which may prove to be the best RSS reader available”.
Richmond’s [...]
“The political party that can harness blogs to its cause is the one that will win the internet campaigning war,” says Tory blogger Iain Dale in today’s Observer.
He argues that blogs provide a chance for the parties to “market their message without the filter of mainstream media reportage and comment”. Blogs, he believes, are the [...]
