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- 99.999 per cent of bloggers have a day job...
- 99.999 per cent of bloggers have a day job...Most people read ZDNet for the talkback...and not the outstanding journalism. Journalism used to be more about facts. But bloggers have turned it into opinions. And you know what they say about opinion. They are like a......., everyone has one. Plus...
- Tags: Blogging, blogger, journalism
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Should we be teaching people how to blog?
- I'd like to believe that I pretty well mastered the five-paragraph essay in the 7th grade. A couple years of journalism took care of that style of writing (or at least well enough for me to write a story for our school newspaper that didn't necessarily contain five five-sentence...
- Tags: Journalism, Media, Blog, Class, Blogging, Blogger, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-08-05
- Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalists
- Anne Broache has excellent coverage of a House panel's vote today to extend reporters' privileges to bloggers who gain some sort of financial benefit. My personal take is Congress should leave the money factor out of it and stick with the definition Anne reports:The bill defines the practice of...
- Tags: Free speech, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Proposed federal shield for reporters now includes bloggers
- A bill to create a federal reporters shield was amended recently to include coverage for bloggers, Ars Technica reports. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines "journalism" to focus more on the function of the job: "the gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing,...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Journalism of all kinds and the process of growing
- Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker has contributed a thoughtful piece to the debate over what a citizen journalism might look like, Amateur Hour: Journalism without journalists. My guess is that the blogosphere will take it badly, minimizing the argument as another "journalism vs. bloggers" rant. It's not....
- Tags: blogger, journalism
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- BloggerCon: Citizen media--users know more
- The second discussion session at BloggerCon was led by Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU. Rosen listed several questions and topics to kick off the discussion. The Docnographer Doc Searls provides live notes from the discussion. Here is a link to the podcast version. ...
- Tags: journalism, Jay Rosen
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Dave Winer and Dan Gillmor on the future on news
- RSS and blogging father Dave Winer and We the Media author Dan Gillmor discussed the future of news and the collision of media and journalism on a panel at the Future in Review Conference. They brought up the usual journalism versus blogging, big media versus citizen media, which is not...
- Tags: Dan, Dave, blogger, media
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- The rise of search . . . and the decline in journalism
- The rise of search . . . and the decline in journalismNo more"We need professional journalists in large enough numbers so that we can ensure a high degree of accuracy in the content of our media."We don't need more, we need better journalists.They can start by learning how to do...
- Tags: Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, journalism, media, blogger
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
Additional Resources
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
- In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...
- Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."My ViewFirst, no one hates Microsoft more than I do - for both practical and ethical reasons. After dealing with Microshaft's endless parade of crap for nearly two decades, I finally abandoned my PC for a Mac. It was one of the best moves of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- How to lose customers by not even trying
- How to lose customers by not even tryingSpot onThere is nothing more infuriating than trying to use a site that has been designed for a single specific browser that isn't yours.I truly appreciate how difficult it can be to get sites working consistently across all browsers. But it is surely...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Web browsers, Hertz Corp., Web site, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- Citizen journalism and traditional newsHere's a way to learn and improveRecord your video and then DON'T look at it right away. go do something else and look at it at least an hour later. Then see what you did wrong. Think about that but don't do it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Blogging, Planning, consciousness, Citizen Journalism, video
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The iPhone meets Journalism
- The iPhone meets JournalismSometimes you have a keen sense for the obvious...But I did get a chuckle from the Obama dig.RE: AgreedSometimes the total contempt these people have for archaic concepts like truth and honesty gets under my skin.Phone it in MurphOther people's words and a few paras.I don't expect...
- Tags: Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Android losing it's mojo fast
- Android losing it's mojo fastForcing GTalk != do no evilYou can't get more lame than that...A note on iPhone apps.Apple would do well to remove the restriction where any non Apple application must exit not stay resident when another function is used like answering an incoming call. This will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Blogging, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
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