- Corante is Not Second Class Journalism (Moore’s Lore) – Should First Amendment protections be restricted to media companies?
- Cramer Gest Prechterized (Moore’s Lore) – A loud Wall Street bull is starting to growl like a bear. which can’t be a good thing.
- Online Search Company Taps Bloggers, Celebrities to Endorse Products (PR News) – The Rollyo story.
- Who’s Connected? Companies that have their own website (bookofjoe) – Joe found some data in Financial Times that compares European countries by the percentage of companies with 10+ employees that have their own website. France is at the back of the pack with just 26.3% of companies with their own website. Joe then provides some background on why the French lag behind and compares them, unfavorably, with Argentina. Of course I could have told Joe that the reason that France is lagging is because the French are so, well, French.
- Banned Books Week – ‘Of Mice and Men’ Ranked #10 – (bookofjoe) – Here’s the money quote from this post: "She remarked that when she was a girl her mother was extremely unhappy with Winterson’s love of books and reading. Her main complaint? ‘You just can’t tell by looking at them what’s in them.’"
- Sourcing, verification, bloggers and the Times (The Editor’s Blog – John Robinson) – John, the Editor of the Greensboro News & Record is asking some good questions of himself and other media folk. If a major story came across his screen via a trusted blogger, but without sourcing would he go with the story? Probably not. But his paper did go with a major story based on a New York Times report that was also unsourced, even thought the Times has had credibility problems of late. More credit to John that he’s willing to think about this.
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