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I miss the old blogosphere — we’ve gained a lot, but we’ve also lost something

on April 27, 2014

A post by long-time tech blogger Dan Gillmor about the decline of the “indie web” got me thinking about the old days of the blogosphere, and how powerful the unedited voice of a single passionate blogger can be. Have we gained as much as we’ve lost?

Appeals court says blogs are not only media, they’re an important source of news and commentary

on April 17, 2014

An appeals court has ruled that a blogger is a member of the media for the purposes of defamation law — another decision that helps support the idea of protecting acts of journalism, rather than just specific people who are defined as professional journalists

Jason Calacanis launches Inside, a mobile news-curation app powered by humans

on January 27, 2014

Calacanis says he built the Inside app and its associated website to provide a smart news-curation tool that will give users an easy way to browse high-quality online journalism via human-generated summaries

In 12 years of blogging, the more things change, the more they stay the same

on December 16, 2013

Over the past 12 years, blogging has gone from being a niche curiosity to becoming a catch-all phrase for everything from rants to press release rewrites. However, what has not changed is its ethos and its importance in an increasingly content rich world.

Irony alert: Newspapers were social media long before blogs and Facebook came along

on December 10, 2013

Newspapers and social media are seen as opposite ends of the media spectrum now, and in many cases as adversaries — but not all that long ago, newspapers themselves were a very powerful form of social media

The rise of Brown Moses: How an unemployed British man has become a poster boy for citizen journalism

on November 19, 2013

From the front room of his flat in a British suburb, an unemployed man with no journalistic training named Eliot Higgins has become the go-to source for information about weapons and military activity in Syria

Sorry, would-be Walt Mossbergs, but the day of the great mass-media technology critic is over

on October 31, 2013

New Yorker magazine wonders who the “next great technology critic” might be now that Walt Mossberg and David Pogue have moved on — but the truth is there isn’t going to be one or two, there will be hundreds.

Acts of journalism: Why we need to be skeptical of a shield law for professional journalists

on October 21, 2013

Protection for journalists via a so-called “shield law” seems like a good idea, but as Josh Stearns of Free Press notes, any such law needs to cover acts of journalism, not just journalists

The shifting balance of power in media is real, no matter what the Columbia Journalism Review says

on September 25, 2013

The Columbia Journalism Review says that bloggers like Kara Swisher and Andrew Sullivan are unique, and that other journalists and writers shouldn’t look to them as examples of what is possible — but that’s not true at all

When aggregators attack: Techmeme’s headline-rewriting is just part of a larger shift

on September 6, 2013

Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera has announced that the technology-news aggregator will begin rewriting headlines on the links it posts — a small change, but one that also illustrates how much the balance of power in media is shifting.

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