Richard Posner im Becker-Posner Blog:

I think this “exemption” of blogging from the ethical standards applicable to the mainstream media makes good economic sense because of economic and technological differences between those media and the “blogosphere.”

Blogging, Spam, and the Taxation of Internet Transactions (Quelle: The Becker-Posner Blog)

ÖPDATE: Blogging--A Response by Posner to a Comment:
I want to respond to a single comment because it reflects interesting misunderstandings of the blogging phenomenon. The comment takes Becker and me to task for not responding to all the comments (on our postings) that are criticial of us. By thus not responding, we are said by the commenter to be shutting off debate.

We are not shutting off debate, and this for three reasons. ...weiterlesen

Interessanter Artikel über den Re-Launch der LAtimes-online bei ORJ.org:

Sporting an airy new look and free access to previously walled-off CalendarLive, Latimes.com stands poised to offer original and user-generated content and classifieds it says can rival Craigslist.

OJR: Sarah Colombo: Latimes.com introduces blogs, with more changes on the way [Quelle: Online Journalism Review ]

A 2005 version of Monty Python's famous "Spam" skit:

Man: Well, what've you got?

Waitress: Well, there's egg and blogs; egg, bacon and blogs; blogs, blogs, egg, blogs, blogs, bacon and blogs; blogs, sausage, blogs, blogs, bacon, blogs, tomato and blogs ...

Wife: Have you got anything without blogs?

Kevin Maney in USA today.com: Once blogs 'change everything,' fascination with them will chill

[Via: blogherald ]

Jeff Jarvis hat sich interessante Gedanken zu neuen Business-Modellen für die News-Industrie gemacht. Einer meiner Favoriten:

Similarly, newspapers and their audiences would be best served concentrating on what they do best: local, local, local. If they gave us the local news that no one else could gather and report, they'd be worth more to us. But this, too, is a hard habit to break: not sending the 15,001st correspondent to the political conventions, not editing the already edited AP report, not printing the stock tables....

Weitere wunderbare Beispiele zum Thema von Jeff Jarvis bei BuzzMachine: New business models for news.

[ Via: BuzzMachine ]

Ankündigung von PJNet:

Can Trust and Quality Save Journalism?
An Interactive Conference for Journalists, Academics, and Citizen Activists
August 9, 2005; Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, San Antonio

Mit einer beeindruckenden Referenten-Liste und folgenden Fragen:

• Is the Mass News Media in a Death Spiral? Can Trust, Quality Save It?

• Will Nonprofits, New Technologies, Citizen Journalism Restore the Trust or Are They More Nails in the Coffin?

• Have Groups Long Neglected by the Main Stream Media Now Found Their Own Voices?

• Is the Roman Empire of Mass Media Disintegrating into Niche Media?

• What the News Media Future Will Look Like

Das vollständige Programm gibts hier.

[Via: PJNet ]

Interessanter Artikel zu "Collaborative Citizen Journalism" (CCJ) in der Technology Review:

The movement known as "collaborative citizen journalism" is gaining sharper focus. What kinds of partnerships will make it thrive -- and how will the mainstream media react?

Craig Newsmark, Begründer von Craiglist:

"What I see happening is community journalism will post news that the mainstream news hasn't covered," Newmark says. "But I don't know at this point. It's all a moving target. It looks like my biggest draw might be making noise and pointing people to good stuff."

Is CraigsNews Coming Soon? by Eric Hellweg

[Via: Hypergene MediaBlog ]

Klingt schon mal vielversprechend .-)

http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp

Im Kardinal Ratzinger-Shop des Cardinal-Ratzinger-Fanclubs wurde mächtig aufgerüstet ... für $ 79.99 gibts nen Hunderter-Pack,...

Echo im Backstage-Dienst der BBC: Ein weiterer Prototyp wurde von Richard Osinga gepostet:

BBC News maps:We use rss feeds of the bbc to display news on maps.
We match names of countries to match the feed with locations. We will refine this so that we can do the same on a city level and can produce detailed maps (Britain, Europe Whatever we want.) (Quelle: BBC Backstage)

http://worldmap66.notlong.com

...von mono inspiriert ...

N24 berichtet über einen Blogging-Knigge für IBM-Mitarbeiterinnen und -Mitarbeiter - Bloggen durchaus erwünscht:

Der Konzern IBM hat eine Blogging-Richtlinie für seine Mitarbeiter herausgegeben. Darin wird den Angestellten des Unternehmens ausdrücklich erlaubt, Netz-Tagebücher zu führen.

Bereits seit Jahren schreiben auch IBM-Mitarbeiter private Blogs, oftmals unter Pseudonymen, der Konzern duldete dies. Nun will IBM auch offiziell klarstellen, wie die Mitarbeiter bloggen können und sollen. (Quelle: N24.de)

Die Richtlinien gibts zum Nachlesen: IBM Blogging Policy and Guidelines (pdf)

Daniel Okrent, Public Editor der N.Y.Times verlässt nach 18 Monaten planmäsig die Times: Eine Laudatio von Jay Rosen: Ultimately Daniel Okrent will have had more influence on the New York Times than the notorious Jayson Blair.

Although his 18-month appointment as public editor was supposed to be a trial period, there was no agonizing about whether the position should be continued. Everyone knew it should be. Everyone knew it would be. And on April 5th, the Times simply named a new public editor, Byron E. Calame. He will officially take over in June. Okrent's last column will be May 22nd. It should be an interesting one.

PressThink - Jay Rosen: In Praise of Daniel Okrent

Unbedingt acuhlesen: After Matter: Notes, reactions and links...
[Via: Jay Rosen: PressThink ]