For those of you keen to emulate the runaway success of the loose wire blog, Terra Lycos , “the global Internet Group”, are trumpeting their Tripod Blog Builder which this month won Editor’s Choice from PC Magazine. “Every step of the way, we found Tripod Blog Builder a pleasure and easy to use,” the rag … Read more
It’s not that new an observation but it’s worth making again, based on fresh data: blogs — those bastions of independent guy in underpants with computer publishing — are just as concentrated as Big Media. These stats from The Truth Laid Bare show that, as Oscar Jnr puts it, “the total average daily traffic of the top … Read more
Further to my posting about Friendster, here’s more on how the net seems to be bringing people together physically. Brian Montopoli of Slate wrote earlier this month about ‘blog maps’, where “some industrious blogger posts a subway map of his or her city… and then organizes the city’s blogs by the stop to which … Read more
Further to my earlier posting about a court ruling last week that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can’t be held responsible for libel for information they republish, Mark Glaser of the University of Southern California’s Online Journalism Review takes a more nuanced view, saying “What really happened in this ruling is much more … Read more
Bloggers Gain Libel Protection Wired reports that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors (folk like me, in other words) can’t be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers. The ruling, … Read more