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Jeff Jarvis thinks so:  ”It has come to this: Arianna Huffington is saving journalism. In all the mourning and mewling over the impending death of newspapers, the oft-heard cry is that without them, there will be no investigative reporting, no one to dog the powerful. But now the indefatigable founder of The Huffington Post comes [...]

All the rage last year, microblogging (and Twitter in particular) look headed to the dustbin of history after just a couple of years on the scene. Twitter is, of course, beset by some high profile hacking and phishing issues at the moment (see Slashdot as well) but there is also a broader questioning of its [...]

Few topics get the loops tapping their keyboards in outraged frenzy more than Israel. So it is again on for young and old over at the ABC Unleashed site. So far there have been three contributions, “Massacre of the innocents” (by acclaimed foreign policy analyst Bob Ellis), “Israel no victim” and “Questions for Hamas”. All these [...]

Most blogs fail. No surprise there most things fail. Blogs fail in two important ways: their owners give up, just can’t be bothered  their owners get despondent because their blog doesn’t propel them into fame and fortune Blogs succeed because they have heaps of content that appeals to lots of people (a strategy that is [...]

Typepad has been inundated with submissions to join its journalist bailout program: During a time when so many great journalists are worried about losing their jobs, we want to do what we can to help. So we’ve put together a program to put you on your first steps towards independence. We’re offering a platform to [...]

Duncan Riley had a good piece at the Inquisitr on that blighted word ‘blog’. It’s always been an ugly encumbrance and now it is also distracting because blogs are, after all, just websites. The good things about blogs and that make them distinctive are: they can be updated (published) easily and directly by ordinary people [...]

Branding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do Social reader Twitter Goes Mainstream: A lot more people — and businesses — are finding new ways to tweet Perhaps iPods Aren’t Replacing Radio Nearly One-Third of Web Users Watch TV While Surfing Google at 10: Searching Its Own Soul Palin denounces her [...]

Barack Obama has over 100,000 followers on twitter. According to Twitterholic, that’s a lot more than anyone else. On Facebook, Obama has 2.2 million “friends” compared to 745,000 for McCain. On MySpace, Obama has 588,000 friends compared to McCain’s 188,000. Twitter is just part of a highly successful internet strategy which also includes wikis, youtube [...]

Yet another list, this time on the shifted pixels site! Ever wonder what bloggers have for brekky, here’s your opportunity. Just kidding. I’ve just squeaked in at #94, and I had wood-smoked bacon, free-range eggs, wholemeal toast, freshly squeezed juice and two espressos this morning; surely I should get a better rating for that? So [...]