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Ikram brought this interesting conversation: why blogger still “proud” when their blogs being featured in newspapers? Hehe…

NOT quite a new modus, but it’s getting worse and worse. A threat to open global information service? Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the [...]

THE world’s most comprehensive music resource, Billboard, has released its legendary Hot 100 into digital format. Billboard announced an expansion of its Hot 100 formula to include weekly streamed and on-demand music data to the chart’s traditional mix of sales and radio airplay. Keeping pace with the growth of digital delivery, Billboard’s franchise chart will [...]

E&P, via Nielsen//Net Ratings recently ranked news website. The judgement mainly based on unique audiences and highest time spent per person. For a brief report, please visit the E&P site. For me, to read about ranking is always fascinating. But one thing from the list: how come cnn.com, bbcnews.com, or christian science monitor not even mentioned?

SOUNDS cliche? maybe. But Roy Peter Clark from Poynter back to discussing this issue. Let me quote the interview carried by Italian journalist, Francesca Pacini, who managed an online media and culture magazine Silmarillon. Q: Let’s talk of blog writing. Is the blogger a journalist even if he doesn’t have a “pedigree”? A: Most bloggers are not [...]

THERE is an interesting piece, written by one of Poynter’s contributors, Chip Scanlan. He wrote 7 reason why he has to go blogging. I found it quite interesting to put his reasons in this blog, to strengthen this blog’s positioning. Here they are.

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