This week I’ve spotted two instances of legal claims being filed not against the websites hosting content but against the person(s) actually posting the content. In one instance, a copyright infrindgement claim was made against a blog posting premiership football… Continue Reading
User sued over post on mag website (note: the site ISN’T being sued) A website user is facing legal action over statements he made about a yachting company on a magazine’s forum….The comment was published on the IPC Yachting World… Continue Reading
Manchizzle’s Round Up of Manchester Blog Awards So last night’s Manchester Blog Awards ceremony went off without a hitch. Thanks to the many intrepid bloggers who braved some rather serious poetry readings in order to represent… (tags: bbcmanchesterblog bbcblogs blogs… Continue Reading
11 top blogging tips… re and more journalists (pro and amateur) are catching on to ways that blogging can enhance their work. However, blogging still isn’t something you learn in J-school — or, generally, in a newsroom…. (tags: blogging bloggingtechniques… Continue Reading
This evening I went along to the Manchester Blog Awards. [update: ickleweb has a photo of me live blogging ] If you happen to be awake and conscious at 2 am British Summer Time (9pm EST) you can listen to… Continue Reading
The new Corinthians: How the Web is socialising Journalism Nowadays, the word “amateur” is being deployed by media professionals to belittle the media-making efforts of bloggers and others who create media productions outside the journalism guilds. Such reporting is deemed… Continue Reading
CBS News employees need permission to blog Planning on blogging? Think again… lots of companies are issuing policies resctricting the blogging activities of employees (tags: blog blogging blogguidelines guidelines policy cbs restrictions bloggingrestrictions) Tom Coates shows how to add GPS… Continue Reading
blog course outline useful if you’re developing or running your own blogging workshops (tags: blogs blogging whatisablog bloggingtechniques blogschool tips education) Lizzie Jackson’s series of blog posts about online hosting, online presenting, etc Lizzie Jackson, a friend of mine and… Continue Reading
You know those times when you read a blog post and realise in the first paragraph, or maybe a bit further along, that the author has really missed or misinterpreted a basic point along the way? I’m not, I promise,… Continue Reading
It wasn’t quite the point I was trying to make when I posted yesterday about Guido scoffing at the idea of getting out of bed for £21,000, reportedly the average being offered for professional bloggers as based on a large… Continue Reading