China Cracks Down on Blogs, Search Engines

China's Internet regulators are stepping up controls on blogs and search engines to block material it considers unlawful or immoral, the government said Friday.

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Chinese Gov't Sets Up Blogs for Lawmakers

China's government is trying to boost public interest in its figurehead parliament and its companion advisory body by setting up Web logs for members as they meet this week.

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PayPerPost: Get Paid to Blog, Advertise on Blogs

PayPerPost is an automated system that allows you to promote your Web site, product, service or company through the PayPerPost network of bloggers.

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Assessing Changing Perspectives of Bloggers

Now that the initial hype over blogging (in which suddenly every large corporation had a blogging hipster in its employ overnight) is over, what does it mean to be a blogger?

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Four projects for righteous anti-war types

From the article: may I propose some ways in which those who don't want to be associated with Michael Moore, George Galloway, Ramsey Clark, and the rest of the Zarqawi and Saddam apologists can make themselves plain? Here are four headings under which the anti-war types could di …

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An open letter to my fellow journalists

David Neiwert, in 'An open letter to my fellow journalists,' invokes Lars-Erik Nelson's warning that "The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bull@!$%#."

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Can Daily Kos Control Dems?

Newsweek highlights fears that Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's popularity will pull the party too far to the left. "We're not sitting around waiting for the so-called professionals to give us power in the party," he tells Newsweek. "We're taking it for ourselves."

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Social Scientists Map "The Core of the Blogosphere"

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Daily Kos: Just the Latest Internet Fad?

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Huffington Post: Spinning, Spinning, Spinning

I'm Getting Very Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy.... Earlier, I reported that Huffington Post writer Dr. Peter Rost claimed that he had unmasked a seemingly "anonymous person" who had been attacking his articles as none other than The Post's own technology manager.

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Is anyone in journalism having fun any more?

William Powers, at the National Journal, says bloggers are having a blast.

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Plameologists in Crisis

From the article: Back in the 1990s, the conservative philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife famously told the New York Times that the death of White House aide Vincent Foster was “the Rosetta Stone to the whole Clinton administration.” Decipher it, and you understand everythin …

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Today is the 3rd Annual International Weblogger's Day

Help recognize and unite bloggers located around the world by participating in the third annual International Weblogger's Day, also called InWeDay.

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Interview: Harry Reid

The Senate minority leader on why he supports Joe Lieberman, how blogs help the Democrats and why he doesn't support impeachment (hint: President Cheney). [free day pass req'd]

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Blogging for Dollars

It’s good to see Internet entre-preneurs grinning again. Web 2.0 makes them happy in several ways that its bubble-era forebear did not. Here’s a critical one: The new breed of online business has no need to advertise.

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Top politicians pay homage to king of bloggers

The Guardian takes the list of "power players" who came to the convention, which as Markos Moulitsas emphasized in his keynote speech, was entirely organized by volunteers, as a sign of the increased clout of political bloggers.

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What Fame Will Bring to DailyKos

From the article: The obvious focus will be on DailyKos founder Mark Moulitsas himself. While his writings—and the controversies they have caused—are an old topic in the blogosphere, they have remained largely unexamined in major media outlets.

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Bloggers succeed in justice, but only for an old woman on a petty charge

This is another example of Internet-powered public opinion monitoring the government in China. The item below is a Tianya forum post that has received more than 280,000 page views and more than 11,000 comments after being first posted on May 29, 2006.

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Why Egypt Is Cracking Down on Bloggers

As activists take to the Web to fight for democracy, they have become particular targets of the Mubarak regime, facing prison and even worse.

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Comment is free: A cracked lens

"Critics of the mainstream media are usually less accountable than the journalists they attack", claims David Fuller, a former BBC journalist who has launched an investigation into what he calls the "anti-media crowd":

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Court Rules in Favor of Journalism

To wit: This past Friday, an appeals court in San Jose ruled that the state's current shield law for reporters applies not only to professional journalists working in print, radio, or television but also to amateur journalists working online, including bloggers -- at least in th …

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Sparring over techie fight club | News.blog | CNET News.com

Fight Club 2.0??

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Can Bloggers Get Real?

The event has been dubbed the YearlyKos convention, and it is the first-ever corporeal assemblage of the bloggers at the Web site DailyKos.com.

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Bloggers can shield sources

A California state court of appeals rules against Apple Computer Inc., deciding that bloggers can make use of shield laws designed for journalists.

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Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers' Sources

A California appeals court has smacked down Apple's legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company's efforts to subpoena e-mail received by the publishers of Apple Insider and PowerPage.org runs contrary to federal law, California's reporter's shield la …

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