Blogging on
Victor Keegan: CBS's admission that its story of George Bush's special treatment when with the Texas air national guard was deeply flawed is being seen as a key victory for the new 'blogging' community of the internet against old media.
Guardian launches games blog
Today, the Guardian has unveiled a new Gamesblog about games and gaming, and this is our second blog using Movable Type. It has already been mentioned in New Media Age, Poynter Online, Paid Content, Corante, and probably other places, which saves me having to tell you about it.
Falling through the net
All MPs have websites but no one is reading them. As a general election looms Sean Dodson looks at how weblogs cold be used effectively - before opponents get in first.
Random reality bites
Jane Perrone meets the shy paramedic whose blog has readers hooked on tales of life and death in London.
Web heroine turns out to be hoax
"For more than three years, a twentysomething Minnesota woman named Layne Johnson lured thousands of people to her Web site every day with a poignant and brutally honest diary of her life. She was witty, sexually adventurous and intimate with her readers, sharing photos of her travels and exchanging private e-mails and instant messages with fans. She posted messages to other people's Weblogs and created personal profiles at social networking sites. Many readers felt deeply connected to her," reports Michael Bazeley in the Mercury News.
Bill may start blogging
"Yes, the world's richest man may start his own blog, one of those online diaries that have been the rage among techies for the past three or four years. Bill's blog won't be all business, either. He's expected to share personal details such as tidbits from recent vacations, according to tech pundit Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch newsletter. Citing unnamed sources, she reported yesterday that Gates is about to start blogging 'real soon now'," reports The Seattle Times.
Winer pulls plug on Weblogs.com
"Numerous bloggers hosted by Weblogs.com are offline and scrambling to find new hosting after blogging pioneer Dave Winer abruptly closed the free service last weekend," reports Netcraft.
Blogs at school
Looks like blogging runs in the family :-)
Addicted to blogging
"Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up. As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes, like Mr Wiggins, quietly so as not to call attention to their habit," says The New York Times [free reg req'd].
Inside track
Blogs aren't just personal any more, says Mary Branscombe. You can get software secrets or an insider view of the market straight from the source
Can corporates blog?
Once Google launched its own weblog, It was only a matter of time before this kind of piece would appear. As News.com reports, Google's discovered it can't say anything too controversial on its weblog. There's a big difference, they've discovered, between what you can post on your personal confessional, and what you can post on a corporate one - especially the blog of a company that's about to ask investors to make a significant, multi-billion dollar leap of faith.
Mainstream makeover
Google this week relaunched its Blogger self-publishing website. Jack Schofield spoke to the founder about what is probably its biggest step forward since its inception in 1999.
Official Google weblog
"Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search," it says at http://www.google.com/googleblog/.
Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious
"The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers -- and they often do so without attribution," reports Wired News.