I was glad to see a California appeals court rule in favor of a blogger’s right to shield his or her sources, just like "traditional" journalists. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
In their ruling, the judges said the online news sites should be treated
as newspapers, television and radio broadcasts are. O’Grady and the other
bloggers, they contended, [...]
Archive for May, 2006
AOL launched their "Myspace killer" today, "AIM Pages," so I decided to give it a try. Truthfully, I don’t know if it’ll be successful with so many other social networking services on the Web, but my first impression is that it’s good… Although maybe not quite good enough. In terms of looks, functionality and ease [...]
Public relations benefits from diverse blogger community
Published by May 1st, 2006 in Public Relations and Weblogs. 3 CommentsOn SliconValleyWatcher, Daniel Bernstein wrote a post
suggesting that only the “best of the best” in the public relations industry
(he cites CEOs of large PR firms and very well-established PR pros), be allowed
to write PR blogs. In his comment section, he cites the open source model as an
inspiration:
“I’m arguing for blogging to emulate open source as [...]
