Way back near the end of 2005, Lot 49 reported that the Federal Election Commission had basically ruled that bloggers are journalists:
The Federal Election Commission today issued an advisory opinion that finds the Fired Up network of blogs qualifies for the “press exemption” to federal campaign finance laws. The press exemption, as defined by Congress, [...]
January 3, 2006
Categories: Politics & Controversy . Tags: bias, blogger, bloggers, blogging, citizen journalism, citizen journalist, citizen journalists, eff, electronic frontier foundation, fec, federal election commission, fnc, fox, fox news, fox news channel, journalism, journalists, objectivity, politics, ruling . Author: Casey . Comments: No Comments
Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. She found patterns in who keeps blogrolls and who is in them, as well as patterns about [...]
August 10, 2005
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology . Tags: bias, biases, blog, bloggers, blogs, gender, gender differences, google, google economy, link, linking, rank, ranking, social life of information, technorati . Author: Casey . Comments: 3 Comments
