According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days, The New York Times reports. “That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the [...]
New Scholarship Award for Bloggers
The 3rd annual blogging scholarship has been launched, offering student bloggers a chance to win a $10,000 scholarship.
The 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time
This week Nerve published a list of “The 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time.”
Center for Public Integrity launches investigative blog
The Center for Public Integrityhas launched a new investigative blog, PaperTrail.
What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?
Scott Porad, who is part of the team behind I Can Has Cheezburger? and the Cheezburger Network, says journalism can learn from I Can Has Cheezburger? “There are probably many lessons, but one that stands out to me is a fundamental shift in the concept of reporting from ‘sourcing’ toward ‘filtering,’” he says.
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