Sexual Threats Stifle Some Female Bloggers

"A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who...

Iran’s Nuclear Test Imminent!

Infidel Bloggers Alliance posted this from dissident Iranian site: Bloggers in Jail There's a video of the interview, with translation below it: " Persian section of Voice of America just had an interview with a...

Declaring War: Citizen Journalists thrown under the bus

Hanging Citizen Journalists Out to DryDeclaring War on Unpaid Journalists "This is about ensuring that there is a wall between real journalists and the perceived unwashed masses of ignorant,...

Heather Armstrong Bully? dooce.com Blogger Calls Out the Haters

Heather Armstrong is no stranger to controversy. The popular blogger of dooce.com has had her share of heartache and anger thanks to the internet. In 2005 Heather Armstrong orally agreed to publish a blogger memoir with Kensington's Rebel Base Books, an agreement on which she...

Response to: Liberal bloggers admit conservatives winning Twitter

"Liberal bloggers established online political activism, besting their conservative rivals during President George W. Bush's eight years in office. But conservatives are now finding great success 140 characters at...

Glenn Beck advertising boycott has right-wing bloggers worried

"You know, I must admit, when I first signed on to the Beck boycott I was participating on principal, but expected little or no impact.  Let's face it, we've done these before with little or no success.  But thanks to a combination of blatant race baiting and a...

Obama wants Citizens to report Health Care bloggers

So the First Amendment limitations don’t stop at yelling, ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theater.  The White House has extended the danger criteria to bloggers who are reading H.R. 3200 and pointing out...

Barely made sense!?

"With the conventional newsprint newspapers not making a dime and going tits-up all over the place, Palin “barely made sense” could be why. Bloggers, generally are more ’say it from the hip’ sort of people – newspapers employ journos who really go for the groin or...

Greek papers left with egg on face over meeting that never was

The atmosphere between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek PM, Kostas Karamanlis was described as tense, somewhat "icy" according to Greek national daily, Vima. On the other hand, the Ethnos newspaper...

Howigotlaidoff.com: Blogger Chronicles Road to Unemployment

Imagine you get home from work one day to find a layoff notice in the mail... so begins the saga outlined at howigotlaidoff.com.  Howigotlaidoff.com tells the tale of "Amanda," a blogger with an online diary that chronicles her journey down  the road to...

Did Chrysler Dealers Receive ‘Pink Slips’ Due to Their Politics?

Did some of the 1,100 Chrysler dealers who’ve been told they have to close their dealerships receive “pink slips” as a result of their political affiliations or contributions made — or not made — to...

Tweet This: You are being sued!

Can you defame someone in 140 characters or less?  Apparently so, according to designer Dawn Simorangkir, who has alleged that eccentic rocker Courtney Love has started a smear campaign against her on Twitter...

Vancouver Twilight Cast Sightings: Where the New Moon Stars Are

Vancouver has been overrun with vampires, fictional vampires that is, since the Twilight sequel New Moon began filming on March 23, 2009.  Stars Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, Ashley Green, Nikki Reed,...

Citizen Journalism Website Triumphs at MediaGuardian Awards 2009

The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night...

Rumor Mongering, The Mob and Web 2.0’s Ugly Side

Recently there have been big uproars regarding the growing lack of responsiblity of some blogs and the mob attacks that are set to follow their posts.  For some peculiar reason some bloggers seem to believe they can post whatever they want to, running around like cowboys...

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