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Bush administation stands by Saudi blogger

From CNN: The Bush administration has brought its concerns about the detention of a well-known blogger to the Saudi Arabian government at “a relatively senior level,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday. Kudos to the Bush administration. Every now and then it gets one right. [Tags: bush blogs saudi_arabia ] Categories: blogs, digital rights, politics [lien] [EN]

Turning to the bloggers

When I read something like today’s news that only 10% of American newspaper editors consider foreign news to be “very essential” to their coverage, I instinctively turn to the bloggers who I know will have something enlightening, thoughtful and sometimes profound to say. And that by itself says a lot about how news is changing. Of course, I did read that particular news in a newspaper, although I was referred there by a blog aggregator. So, I’m not saying that professional news media are unnecessary or add nothing. Not at all. But the news ecology in just a few years has become 100% mixed. Tags: news media participatory_media ethan_zuckerman Categories: blogs, everythingIsMiscellaneous, media [lien] [EN]

Chinese won’t let blogger travel

Rebecca MacKinnon reports that the Chinese government has refused to let citizen journalist blogger Zhou Shuguang (known as Zola) travel outside the country. This is not the first time he’s faced the Chinese authorities. This time, he twittered it as it was happening. Rebecca posts: “I just communicated with Zola online. I asked him how he’s feeling - he said he’s tired but he feels ok, isn’t stressed.” She is concerned, however, as we all should be. [Tags: zola blogging Zhou_Shuguang china ] Categories: blogs, digital rights, peace [lien] [EN]

Accountable bloggers and journalists

[Note 5 hrs after posting this: Ethan Zuckerman has just put up a superb post on this topic. I suggest you read that instead of this.] Jillian York of the Berkman Center explains the current confusion about the NY Times’ rather casual suggestion (in a blog post), based on an accusation in a tweet from Omid Habibinia, that Hossein Derakhshan (aka Hoder) has been an agent for the Iranian government, basically ratting out pro-democracy bloggers. The NY Times has now gone meta on the accusation, saying it only reported it because it’s a sign of the discord and distrust, etc. etc. But it’s still a dangerous charge to propagate. Jillian wants to know why we’re blaming the NY Times blogger and not Habibinia. I’ve got enough blame in my backpack for both. But I do think that since the NY Times trades on its credibility. [lien] [EN]

Blogger’s Block

I have it in a really bad way. I haven’t posted in weeks. I think about writing often but just can’t seem to be inspired as to what to say. I really like writing/blogging so I don’t know why I’m having such a hard time. I don’t want to let this blog die. Has this happened to anybody else out there? If so, how have you overcome the “bloggers block”? Give me some suggestions! Share This Subscribe to PlainAdvice's RSS Feed This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 8:23 pm and is filed under Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Fred Thompson: The Choice of Most Conservative Bloggers

In blogger poll, after blogger poll it has been Fred Thompson hands down, despite the efforts of Ron Paul bots. Most conservative bloggers I know have either came out and endorsed him, or are rooting from him. Below are just a handful. John Hawkins of Rightwing News, Erick Erickson of RedState.Com, Pejman of RedState, Eugene Volokh of Volokh's Conspiracy, Polipundit of Polipundit, Ala from Blonde Sagacity, Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Kender at Kender's Musings, Gribbit at Gribbit's Word, Bill Quick of Daily Pundit, Misha of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller, Bob Krumm, Brandon at Conservative Superiority, Curt at Flopping Aces, Darrell of Alpha Patriot, Jimmie of the Sundries Shack, Justin Higgins of Right on the Right, Kim du Toit, MacRanger of Macsmind, Rick Moran of Right Wing Nuthouse. [lien] [EN]

An Open Letter to Blogger Bloggers

Blogger bloggers please don’t make me login with my Google/Blogger account in order to post a comment. I realize that this is spam control, but find some other solution– like, oh, migrate to WordPress :). Sincerely, though, you are losing traffic. Why? Every time I want to post on a Blogger blog and I have to login with my Google/Blogger account I have to look up the damned password. Then I get frustrated with you, with Blogger, with your blog. See, I thought I’d play nice and I got myself a Blogger account back before it was Google. I thought I’d play nice and get an account just so that I’d be able to post comments on those must-have-a-blogger-account blogs. It has been a constant source of irritation. And have you considered those folks who don’t have a Google/Blogger account? Really. [lien] [EN]

Alive in Baghdad blogger killed…

OK, this week ends on another tragic note. I know all three of these bloggers. PodTech awarded Alive in Baghdad its highest award at last year’s Vloggies event. One of their correspondents was killed. I’m looking forward to a better week next week. Sigh. [lien] [EN]

Bloggers: Disqus doesn’t help you in Google

Bloggers: especially those of you thinking of using Disqus, check out Steve Broback’s post. Turns out that third-party commenting systems don’t look so great in Google if they aren’t hosted on your same domain that your blog is. That, alone, is a good reason to avoid using them. I hope the Disqus folks figure that one out. [lien] [EN]

Before you Pitch Bloggers: Three Genuine Tips for Budding Entrepreneurs and Startups

This post is written to help budding entrepreneurs and startups that don’t have marketing resources, consider this free advice. Lately, many startups have been sending me emails requesting that I blog about their product or review it or provide feedback. While I scan every single one, most never get more than a few seconds. I love the entrepreneurial activity and really enjoy seeing this flurry of innovation in our industry. I’m going to provide a few tips to help these companies understand how marketing in the social sphere has changed. What’s the best way to get word spread about your new product or service? Probably the worse way is to insist over and over to bloggers that they would ‘want to share this with their audience’, in fact, for many bloggers, the more you insist the less they are likely to publish anything! Three techniques come to mind that I think are very successful. [lien] [EN]

How Do You Become a Passionate Blogger? Blog Your Passion.

Eaton Web offers “How to Become a More Passionate Blogger” and makes a very important point: Passionate bloggers have advantages over non-passionate bloggers including attracting a higher quality and more supportive readership. So, how do you become a more passionate blogger? First of all, enjoy your niche. Blog about something you love. If you don’t like to travel, don’t start a travel blog. If you don’t like video games, don’t start a video game blog. If you don’t like American football, don’t start an NFL blog. Simple, right? The key to being passionate is to figure out what excites you. Consider the niches you gravitate towards. What do you spend your money on? What occupies much of your time? What do you like to think about? If you aren’t enjoying your blog subject and focus. [lien] [EN]

Blog Struggles: Blogger’s Depression

It happens to everyone, including bloggers. You work and work, filled with enthusiasm, eager to embrace each day. Then something happens. For a blogger, it’s little things. A mistake found in a post months after publishing. You are embarrassed but no big deal. Then someone says something a bit sarcastic towards you, and not your post, and you blow it off. After all, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Right? One morning, you check your comments and two dozen comment spam, selling casinos, porn, drugs, music, and mortgages, slips through, littering your blog. You hit the Mass Edit button and quickly deal with each evil nasty, worry about whether or not your comment spam fighting tools are really doing their jobs, then look at the hundreds they caught, compare the ratio, and stop worrying. [lien] [EN]

Blogger’s Choice Award Winners Announced

It appears that I’ve come in third in the Blogger’s Choice Awards for the Best Blog About Blogging category. Above me are Darren Rowse of Problogger.net and a newbie on the block, Blogging Basics 101. I’d love to showcase the others who came in below me on the list, but it appears that the counting for next year as already begun. Darn. Among the other winning categories, I’m in good company, including some other WordPress.com bloggers like Icanhascheezburger, and even WordPress.com won second for best blog hosting! I feel like I won twice with that announcement. I’m a fan of some of the blogs that also won, and was delighted to discover many new blogs, including one by actor David Hewlett. I’m a big fan of Stargate, so I was thrilled to see him among the honorees. [lien] [EN]

Why are some bloggers turning on Apple?

I’m seeing more and more anti-Apple blogs lately like the one Dave Winer posted yesterday. Why is that? Well, Apple is getting bigger and bigger and our attitude is changing. Seven years ago Apple was a cute company that was in severe trouble. People generally like rooting for the underdog. Microsoft was (and still is, really) on top so it was fun rooting against Microsoft and for the company with 4% market share. Then they started doing stuff we liked. The stores? Sheer genius. iPods? Finally we had a great player for our MP3 collections (which many of the geeks I knew had started collecting in the mid 1990s). Macs? Moved to Intel chips. Finally we could use Windows and whatever weird OS Apple produced on the same machine. Speaking of that weird OS. Back in the 1990s it was pretty damn buggy. [lien] [EN]