Slate - After Markos Moulitsas got the mildly vinegary Maureen Dowd treatment , he was a little ticked. “Maureen Dowd is an insecure, catty bitch,” he told a fellow blogger . OK, maybe he was more than a little ticked. (By blogger standards, Dowd’s attack
My Life in Media: Guido Fawkes
The Independent - My Life in Media: Guido Fawkes The parliamentary blogger Guido Fawkes has been setting Westminster alight with his tales of plots, rumours and conspiracy for the past three years. He describes himself as “the only man to enter parliament with honest
Prez Candidate Sex Scandal In Offing?
The Moderate Voice - This prompts Ron Rosenbaum, a PajamasMedia blogger, to opine: If it s true, I don t envy the LAT . I respect their hesitation, their dilemma, deciding to run or not to run it raises a lot of difficult journalism ethics questions and
THE DOWN LOW
Video Business - Reports that Apple is poised to move its iTunes into download rentals kicked into high gear last week, when blogger David Watanabe reported in his dwblog on www.newsfirerss.com that he had stumbled upon a menu pertaining to rental movies while
From their own correspondent
Guardian Unlimited - The blog at www.waveofdestruction.org, set up by 22-year-old Australian blogger Geoffrey Huntley to host tsunami footage, logged 682,366 unique visitors in just four days. Yet many believed that the tsunami was a one off. One commentator argued that
Porn filtering isn’t foolproof, test drive at county library shows
Silicon Valley - However, the filters failed to block a top blogger’s site that posts Gannon’s fully naked online advertisements. Some subjects, like circumcision, were a bit trickier for the county’s filters. Some circumcision information sites, including one with
Depth Charge!
Slate - Let all the scandals that lurk in the mud hatch out. [ What’s to stop some blogger from doing this in every campaign?–ed Nothin’. I assume depth-charging will become a permanent feature of electoral politics. They tell me the Internet has changed
Young blogger loses battle with cancer
CNN - NEW YORK (CNN) — Miles Levin was determined to have his say in life, even with cancer ravaging his young body. Miles Levin wrote that cancer and the fear of death could expand your heart and mind. So when he died Sunday, six days before his 19th
Real or fake Linux PC? Everex will know
Computerworld Australia - A desktop panel includes icons for popular Google applications, including GMail, Google Documents and Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Blogger. Some local software, including OpenOffice and the Rhythmbox music player, is included, but, “you get the
Top Blogger Markets: Austin, Portland, SF and Seattle
MarketingVOX - Austin, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle are the top local markets for people who read or contribute to blogs. What they have in common are tech savvy and youth, according to (pdf) local-market research firm Scarborough Research , writes sister