Kategorie: Blogs

Social media is dead, long live blogging

I also keep it out of spite, because I refuse to let social media take everything. I’ve blogged about this many times, but I still believe it: When I log into Facebook, I see Facebook. When I visit your blog, I see you.

Root down blogging

No more useless APIs. No more Facebook likes or selfie sharing banalities. It’s about time to reignite root down blogging. Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Stand behind your beliefs. Write stories you think matter. Stop writing to…

Earlier Social Networking

Blogs were one of the earliest forms of social networking where people were writing 1,000 words. When we moved to status updates on Facebook, our posts became shorter. Then micro-blogs like Twitter came along and shortened our updates to 140…

What’s the deal with Bloggers?

Great visual about bloggers by Flowtown with data from Blogpulse and Technorati. According to their numbers, out of the 143,890,000 million bloggers, the majority are well educated men in Cali who watch tv, enjoy reading other blogs, are self employed…

Werbeblender: PR, Pampern und Blogs

Wie wäre es mit einem kostenfreien Wochenende, mit Begleitung, in Barcelona zum Produktlaunch der neuen XS 50 Kamera? So kann eine Anfrage für ausgewählte Blogger sein. Für die meisten etablierten Journalisten ist kostenfrei auf Kosten anderer ge-pampered zu werden alter…

In $2.5 Million Judgment, Court Finds Blogger Is Not a Journalist

Although the defendant is a self-proclaimed “investigative blogger” and defines herself as “media,” the record fails to show that she is affiliated with any newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or…

Vom Blogkiller zum Maulkorb: Wie Italiens Regierung das Internet mundtot machen will

Bis vor einer Woche hieß es noch Blogkillergesetz, jetzt redet die italienische Netz-Community vom Maulkorbgesetz: Das umstrittene Gesetz zur Medienregulierung in Italien klammert nach heftigen Protesten im Netz nun Weblogs aus. Doch es geht weiter. Professionelle Medienportale sind das hauptsächliche…

Slow Blogging, alt Slow Food

Jack writes an article about blog hype. Nice. Jeff, Jay, Dave are all there. Gawker too, mentioning Jeff again. Whether bloggers are competing with oldskool journalism, even a topic in Germany. Let’s focus on some issues raised in the Slate…

What Missing the Blog Means

Panic and a sense of detachment among readers? Many didn’t know where to look for their daily news. Others felt isolated and disconnected from, again, others. And because the basic human communication need is to know about the other, isolation…

Blogs and Digital Culture

Weblogs link content. To and about cultures, news, studies, thoughts, concepts, immediate reality, and practically all digitally inter-connected spheres. They allow glimpses into ambigious time and space coordinates, mostly personal and opinionated they speak out and invite to understand, define…