USA Today reports on the conundrum at Microsoft between free speech and company control with a growing number of employees joining the blogosphere
Bloggers not protected against libel in US
The Online Journalism Review has posted an article arguing against the wide spread interpretation of a recent US judicial finding that was reported in the Blogosphere (including The Blog Herald) as providing libel protection for Bloggers. The article is a must read for bloggers commenting on public figures or engaging in potentially libellous comment as it concludes that the finding only protects third party content repeated on a blog or other online forum.
Blogs moving Clinton
Freereupblic via Blogolution via the Wall Street Journals Opinion Journal have managed to have a photo withdrawn from the website of would-be 2008 US Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton which shows Hillary standing in front of a sign saying “Religion is Immoral” as featured to the left, demonstrating once again the growing influence of the Blogosphere to shape politics and politicians.
Blogging causing social problems amongst teens
Yahoo! News new news search supported by moreover has bought up an interesting finding this morning (+8 GMT) after typing in Blogs: the famous Dear Abby is now providing advice to teen bloggers on how saying nasty things about their friends on their blogs for the whole world to see can cause them to loose their friends. This classic peice of advice is reprinted here at The Blog Herald for immediate reader attention.
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Blogs in the Workplace
NYTimes.com> For Nicholas Tang, the deluge of work-related e-mail messages became overwhelming. “It got to the point where I was getting hundreds of e-mails a day, sometimes more than a thousand,” said Mr. Tang, director of operations at Community Connect, a company in New York that operates AsianAvenue.com and other online communities with an ethnic focus.
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Blog Herald joins call for Google toolbar hack
Google is the talk of the blogosphere. Owner of blogger, and a new toolbar that allows direct posting to blogger, Google is acting more and more like a Microsoft of the internet age in its attempts to control our browsing, searching and blogging choices. Voidstar has recently called on a hack for the Google toolbar so that it can support alternative blogging sites and tools. The Blog Herald not only supports this push, but calls on Google to provide such support in future versions of the toolbar so that it can truly be lauded as a great internet company and not the blogging monopolist it appears to be turning into; the irony here being in that participating in the Blog Standards Echo project, it is starting to have about as much credibility as Microsoft on Java; get inside then seek and destroy. It is not too late to repent Google…
Political Revolution by Blog
The Guardian Unlimited in the UK has an interesting piece today on politics and blogging that is a must read for the future use of the blogosphere is shaping current and future geopolitical events.
GaiaX trademarks “Blog” in Japan
Joi Ito reports that Japanese company GaiaX is attempting to trademark the term blog in Japan.
Bloggers Gain Libel Protection in US
Wired reports that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that bloggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can’t be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial US Free speech protections to do-it-yourself online publishers.
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Google discriminates against blogs
There is much ado with the news of Google toolbar v2 with support for blogger posts, however little has been said over the snub to exclude most blogs from the Google adsense program. Despite Googles recent purchase of PyraLabs and the popular Blogger, Google only demonstrates here either a total ignorance of the reach blogs have, or do not take the medium seriously. And to rub insult to injury, some blogs have managed to sign up and others have been rejected.
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