BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. This is the only disclaimer I will issue from this site. It reads: I will never issue a disclaimer at this site. Again. The discussion rages around us about how we’re in danger of losing our credibility, or our ethics are in question. However a more serious issue is at […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I expected this reason to use nofollow would take a few weeks at least, but not the first day. Scoble is happy about the other reason for nofollow: being able to link to something in your writing and not give ‘google juice’ to the linked. Now, he says, I can link to […]
Six Apart has announced what Dave Winer only hinted about and we’ve been expecting — Google and the other search companies have partnered with the weblogging companies to come out with the use of rel=”nofollow”, as a way of dealing with comment spam. When added to the weblog template for links, this instructs the search […]
Jarvis is in a tizzy today because of a New York Times article that I gather is not complimentary to the former IraqTheModel blogger, Ali. In particular he accuses the reporter of putting Ali’s life in danger by reporting his fullname. Note, by the way, that Boxer does use their full name. They don’t even use it […]
According to the Wikipedia article on citizen journalism: Citizen journalism usually involves empowering ordinary citizens — including traditionally marginalized members of society — to engage in activities that were previously the domain of professional reporters. “Doing citizen journalism right means crafting a crew of correspondents who are typically excluded from or misrepresented by local television news: low-income […]