BurningbirdSix 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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Flash at 6: Google calls Dave Winer. Ooo. The suspense. Per Sam Ruby: Robert Sayre: I noticed that the links his comment form have an interesting rel attribute. Implemented. Prediction: that wouldn’t solve the problem. I agree with Sam — this isn’t going to solve the problem. Gas station cash registers have […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several people have linked to Martin Schwimmer and his indignation about the fact that Bloglines re-prints the content of his post, without attribution and with the possibility of future advertisements (…or guilty until proven innocent). This violates the cc license, he says, because he can only be republished if proper attribution is […]