blogosphere

The blogosphere goes professional. Where Huff leads, who follows?

Brian Walker on February 7, 2011, 8:25 pm | Readers 2

The Huffington Post itself is on the soft sell as the MSM grinds it axes. This from Howard Fineman, as if nothing has changed. 　My best teacher at Columbia was a man with a sly grin, a razor wit and a gift for Delphic utterances. He told us that journalism had one mission and one method: “to go there.” In one sense, however, everything has changed. These days, my teacher’s mission statement applies not just to journalists, but also to …

Blokes blog, birds don’t: the impoverished political potential of the internet?

John Ó Néill on October 5, 2010, 9:24 am | Readers 1

Since he flagged up the votes for the Top 20 blogs (as reported by Iain Dale), I’d been figuring on looking at Mick’s point about the lack of nationalist blogs on the list since they are maybe 2 of the 20. I’m going to do that in the next week or two, but first I thought I’d flag up the equally glaring under-representation of the majority community on that list: the 51.25% of society that are female. Some have argued that blogging as a pursuit is predominantly male, …

Bloggers not to blame for the broadening of journalism

Mick Fealty on August 13, 2010, 5:30 pm | Readers 22

Not sure I agree with everything Malachi says in his oped of earlier this week, but this part is worth repeating, for those who still think there is a war on between MSM and the blogosphere: …there is one big flaw in the perception that bloggers and journalists are at war with each other; they actually feed off each other. They have a symbiotic relationship – and it is changing. It used to be that journalism was a coherent and …

Commenters: “Ungovernable as the tribal lands of Pakistan”

Mick Fealty on June 24, 2010, 4:50 pm | Readers 6

On Slugger, we’re currently in the process of packing down a tight set of rules which we hope to share with other political blogs who are keen on promoting civil engagement between their commenters. Top of the list of things we hope to capture is a clearer understanding of the difference between a breach of the rules of civility and and a set of politics you (ie, a complainant) simply don’t like, as Neil Swidey notes in a feature piece …