"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...
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...
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 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...
opinion by Tina Kells | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago 5372 views | 16 recommendations | 16 comments
"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...
"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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
opinion by Tina Kells | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 118 views | 26 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
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 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,...
created by Tina Kells | 34 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 12275 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
opinion by EdHad | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 297 views | 23 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
created by benbehrouzi | 38 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 82 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment