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« Economy Firing On All Cylinders | Main | A Michael Williams Grab Bag » May 13, 2004Blogs News RoundupHere's a roundup of news about blogs and the impact they're having in public relations, journalism, politics and academia. A Reuters report titled America's Napster Generation Goes To War explores the impact of digital technology on war-related public relations and journalism. The Napster generation's tech-savvy teens and twentysomethings forced the $30 billion music industry to rethink its business. Now they are making military officials apply their minds to the flow of information from today's front lines that has potentially disastrous consequences for military planners as images whizz home beyond the Pentagon's tight watch. Digital cameras, camcorders and laptop computers are widely seen as basic to the modern U.S. military, as is living on bases with Internet connections.Online Journalism Review has a very interesting article about "how blogs are changing academia, politics and traditional journalis." OJR says "the presence of blogs in the academic environment makes it more likely that they'll survive and thrive in the long term," and goes on to note that, increasingly, university professors aren't just blogging, they are "turning their research lens on Weblogs themselves, whether the context is within schools of law, journalism, communication or library science." OJR presents the results of interviews-via-email of four professors who are researching blogging. OJR also has a report titled Surf's Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for Browsing, which reports that: While most Netizens still surf to Web sites to catch the latest postings, more users have found that to be a laborious, time-consuming way to browse. Instead they are installing "newsreader" software that constantly plucks feeds from Weblogs and news outlets and pulls them together onto a single screen.The article summarizes the various news-reader applications out there. If you use an RSS reader, you can add HobbsOnline to your feed by copy this link to your list of subscriptions. Meanwhile, Slate looks at "jock blogging," or how a growing number of professional athletes are using blogs to communicate with fans while avoiding the media. And, finally, PR Newswire's Media Insider has an interesting bit on blogs, PR and "participatory journalism." Oh... and some company named "Google" has launched a new version of something called "Blogger." Posted in Blogging & Journalism
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Maybe you've seen this already, but Roll Call recently noted a new blog by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind) and said he was the first in Congress to launch one. Here is a link to the Pence blog. Looks pretty bland so far. Posted by: fishkite at May 13, 2004 11:41 AMGreat post. The best part is PRN interviewing Steve Rubel - PRN specifically kicked me out of their journalist service because they didn't consider any of my writing (I have old stuff, but nothing ultra new) on my blog "articles published" - so no go. After I posted about it, I was contacted by someone at BusinessWire, who was more than happy to have me utilize their services, and I've been posting articles derived from releases ever since. So while PRN does have RSS feeds right now, they don't exactly cater to the blogging set - yet. Posted by: Tom at May 13, 2004 08:06 PMPost a comment
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