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Category Archives: Blogging
Israeli Court Limits Blogs Freedom of Speech
Jameel writes: Orthomom Redux? While Freedom of Speech is protected by the US Constitution, it’s a whole different ballgame in Israel. Disagree with your local municipal council? One blogger did…and found his blogger anonymity disappearing under court order to Google. … Continue reading
Bloggers Vs. Journalists
This discussion on L.A. Roundtable (for LA City View 35) was recorded Sept. 18, 2007. KCAL’s Dave Bryan moderated the discussion between myself, Eric Longabardi, Eric Spillman and Bill Boyarsky. I’ve put it on Youtube: Part One Part Two Part … Continue reading
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Jewish News Roundup
Rabbi Gil Student writes: Non-Orthodox synagogues merge (Jewish Week). An editorial asks whether Israelis would be better off without a Chief Rabbinate (Jewish Week). More letter to The Jewish Press for and against R. Natan Slifkin (Jewish Press). His response … Continue reading
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Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass
This is the best article I’ve read on blogging. From Vanessa G. in New York magazine: Like most journalists, I tend to have a defeatist attitude about Gawker, dismissing it as the Mystery Science Theater 3000 of journalism, or accepting … Continue reading
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Pay the Talent? Sorry, Suckas, That’s Not the HuffPo Financial Model
Simon Dumenco writes: It wouldn’t have cost Lerer anything to make some vague utterances about "eventual" profit sharing or stock options or page-view bonuses or some such. Instead, in a moment of delusional grandeur, he chose to announce that his … Continue reading
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I’ll Be On The New ABC TV Show ‘I-Caught’ Sept. 11 9 p.m. (8 p.m. Central)
Video Audio of ABC’s I-Caught Profile of Bloggers Such As MySelf and Perez Hilton Samantha Wender writes for ABC News: It’s the modern day diary, online personal journals or blogs attracting millions of viewers to the Internet. But it’s the … Continue reading
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Is Matt Drudge America’s Most Important Journalist?
I can’t think of anyone who comes close. Drudge breaks more stories than anybody and has more influence on the news cycle. It does not matter that much that he may be a bad journalist. The merit of his work … Continue reading
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A Jewish Huffington Post
I’m honored to contribute to this new website reshimu.com along with Rabbi Gil Student and company.
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A Jewish Voice At YearlyKos
Mik Moore writes for The Jewish Week: …Yet, when liberal bloggers — denizens of that noisy, cranky, high-intensity region of the Internet where individuals air their personal views, analyses, musings and, at times, reporting — held their major conference earlier … Continue reading
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Cushy Confab’s Contrasting Coverage
The Forward reports Aug. 3: A strange thing happened in Utah this week: Some 40 leading Jewish academics, writers, rabbis and professionals descended on the mountains of Park City, where, among other things, they built teepees. Although the media wasn’t … Continue reading
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