(bringing new readers up to speed) When it began to become clear that a horrific tragedy was unfolding at Virginia Tech University earlier this week, I did what a lot of bloggers did and looked to the blogs. I quickly… Continue Reading
Freesheet to Pull Blog Content into Paper Dagsbrun plans to launch free dailies in 10 U.S. cities. The papers will run blogs alongside the usual newspaper fare… eventually, half the paper could be filled by all the Boston blogs fit… Continue Reading
The past few days have pointed to a future where audiences are likely to look first to blogs and other forms of participatory media for first hand accounts of emerging stories before turning to the mainstream media. Of course mainstream… Continue Reading
Journalists look to bloggers for Virginia Tech: Tech News on ZDNet “The Web basically cuts the middleman out of the picture, and allows the people who were there on the scene to get their story out to a global audience… Continue Reading
The BBC has created a button that you can add to your blog in a show of support for BBC Reporter Alan Johnston who was abducted in Gaza on the 12th of March. The button is being added to all… Continue Reading
cloudalicious graph for cybersoc.com Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Cloudalicious is a service that looks at how your blog has been bookmarked and tagged on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us, then plots it on a graph. These are the results for… Continue Reading
Virginia Tech: Eyewitness testimonies and footage dominate news “We’re using Webcams, we’re soliciting any video that viewers have, we’re monitoring the online communities of MySpace and Facebook to bring viewers as much information as we can from as many places.”… Continue Reading
One of the livejournal blogs I found yesterday and linked to from here contains the account of Kate, written by her friend Paul, and tells how a gunman entered her classroom at Norris Hall and began shooting. After the gunman… Continue Reading
A shooting at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg Virginia has reportedly left over twenty people dead. I’ve been looking around for coverage from students and staff on campus… icantread01 has the most shocking account I’ve yet come across. He slept… Continue Reading
Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist, was abuducted as he returned home from his Gaza office over a month ago, on the 12th of March (timeline). On Friday, over 30,000 people signed an online petition calling for Alan’s release following a… Continue Reading