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Citizen Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:29:31 -0800

Blogger Letter to the Senate on White Spaces

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:47:51 -0700

Bloggers signed this letter to the Senate in support of opening white spaces for wireless broadband.

Blogger Letter to the House of Representatives on White Spaces

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:41:45 -0700

Bloggers signed this letter to the House of Representatives in support of opening white spaces for wireless broadband use.

Blogger Letter to the FCC on White Spaces

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:36:44 -0700

Bloggers signed this letter to the FCC in support of opening white spaces for wireless Internet.

Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:18:01 -0700

The Associated Press unleashed a firestorm in the blogosphere earlier this month when it demanded that a political site take down AP content it said violated copyrights. Bloggers, including Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com and Markos Moulitas of Daily Kos, cried foul, saying the AP's move threatened the free flow of information over the Web.

'Washington Post' Staffer Fired for Profane Sports Blogging

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:01:33 -0700

A Washington Post staffer who had been blogging at a sports-themed Web site apparently lost his job after editors came across some profane-laden postings that also identified him as a Post scribe.

Blogger Is Surprised by Uproar over Obama Story, but Not Bitter

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:05:45 -0700

The back story of how Senator Barack Obama’s comments about small-town voters became news is getting almost as much attention in the blogosphere as the comments themselves.

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:13:57 -0700

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Social Network for Journalists Gets $2.75M in Financing

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:51:45 -0700

Publish2, a social network and news aggregator devoted to journalists, has received $2.75 million in financing from Velocity Interactive Group, an investment firm specializing in digital media and communications. The service is currently in private beta test and will use the funding to finish building out its platform and hire additional staffers.

Cuba Blocks Access to Top Cuban Blog

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:28:11 -0700

The Cuban authorities have blocked access from Cuba to the country's most-read blogger, Yoani Sanchez, she said on Monday.