Post Tagged with: "bloggers"

Leaked AP memo tells employees that they must beat blogs

Leaked AP memo tells employees that they must beat blogs

The Associated Press, otherwise known as AP, have a hate – hate relationship with anything to do with the Internet but with bloggers in particular. It’s not just that the AP is the sole provider of about 95% of the non-local ‘news’ that shows […]

EU calls for tools to help bloggers living in repressive regimes

EU calls for tools to help bloggers living in repressive regimes

Even though bloggers in the US and Canada still have problems being accepted as legitimate news outlets we at least don’t have to deal with repressive regimes that have no problem jailing, or worse, those that they deem dangerous to […]

Bloggers Not Journalists, Judge Finds, Implications Rock Blogosphere

Bloggers Not Journalists, Judge Finds, Implications Rock Blogosphere

I think it’s not entirely alarmist to say “everybody panic” right about now. If you write for blogs, and have done for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve probably been sneered at with the oft-misspelled comment “what do you think […]

The UAE a dangerous place for bloggers as another goes to jail for 3 years

The UAE a dangerous place for bloggers as another goes to jail for 3 years

Over here in the part of the world where the worst we can get for expressing our opinions is some pepper spray in the face or getting a little roughed up by law enforcement. In other places in the world […]

Once more the idea of ‘blog code of ethics’ rears its ugly and stupid head

Once more the idea of ‘blog code of ethics’ rears its ugly and stupid head

In this new media world blogs, and the people, like myself, who write for them, are sort of the old timers and as such we see the recycling of ideas and topics, both interesting and stupid, as an inevitable part […]

The flap over Netflix ‘supposedly’ restricting simultaneous streaming shows how ludicrous tech blogging can be

The flap over Netflix ‘supposedly’ restricting simultaneous streaming shows how ludicrous tech blogging can be

This morning when I started going through my feed reader and getting ready for another day of writing about tech and the such, the one story that was flowing fast and furious was that Netflix had decided to start enforcing […]