- Maybe You Should Decide (Micropersuasion) – Steve wonders if he should float pitches on his blog so readers can help decide what he should publish/run. BusinessWeek is wondering the same thing.
- WSJ Steals Our Story, Again (paidContent) – Rafat Ali is ticked off that the Wall Street Journal picked up a story he broke and didn’t attribute him. Go get ’em Rafat.
- Google Defends Self on Blog (John Battelle’s SearchBlog) – Google is being sued by Authors Guild and defends its position on its blog.
- Who Will Audit the Red Cross? (Moore’s Lore) – Dana Blankenhorn would like to know if how the Red Cross is doing in response to Katrina. Stories about problems are beginning to surface and he rightly asks if their true and if anyone is keeping an eye on them.
- Google Flattens the World (Moore’s Lore) – Dana doesn’t think Google’s recent moves are aimed at taking on Microsoft, rather they are aimed at taking on the entire computing-telecommunications complex.
- Guilt the Gift that Keeps on Giving (Michael’s Corner) – Via Patrick Eakes I found this Greensboro-based blog and I’m now a subscriber. Michael’s take on guilt as a parenting tool is really making me think.
- Continued Demise of the Old Media (The Third Rail) – John Trainer thinks the New York Times has screwed up: "’All the news that’s fit to print’ just doesn’t work any more.
It wouldn’t have been so difficult for you to plug yourselves into the new mainstream – the Washington Post did it by creating blog links that referenced most every blogger who, in turn, referenced one of the Post’s stories. Too liberal, too conservative, that’s not the question. Just simple tit for tat. Engagement, not detachment. The public is now apparently demanding ‘All the news that fits, we print.’" - True Genius: Kevin Murphy Wins MacArthur "Genius" Award" (Freakonomics) – Kevin Murphy is a colleague of Steven Leavitt’s and Steven isn’t bashful in his praise of the man who was recently named a MacArthur Fellow.
- Exploding TV (Jeff Jarvis) – Jeff talks about the Viacom deal to buy iFilm (same story broken by Rafat Ali, and not properly attributed by WSJ). According to Jeff it’s a "media changing moment."
- Surprising Partners: Adding Blogs to an Existing Non-Profit Community (Global PR Blog Week) – Another very informative article from the online conference for the PR community. This one focuses on the online community building efforts of the March of Dimes.
- Blogs and Press Releases (Global PR Blog Week) – Shel Holtz argues that blogs can’t and won’t replace the venerable press release. He doesn’t think they should, either.
- Porn Site Offers Soldiers Free Access in Return for Photos of Dead Iraqis (Online Journalism Review) – The title’s pretty self-explanatory, but the OJR makes it even more interesting by taking a hard look at the role that the porn site is playing. The thinking here is much more involved than you would expect.
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