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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Blogging journalists, and other oxymorons
Media Guardian has just published my piece on the problems posed when professional journalists enter the blogosphere. Extract: Unlike amateur bloggers who can rant, comment, express bizarre points of view or promote their latest acquisitions and obsessions with no concern for conflict of interest or even internal consistency, we are not mere citizens in the [...]
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
That’s what I call serendipity
I wrote a piece about the ways that the Web encourages rather than destroys serendipity, and it has attracted some attention online. So this morning when I discovered that ask.com has a new blog search engine [thanks, Mike] I used it to see what discussion there had been recently about my piece. And this is [...]