James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis.
I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media [...]

Posted October 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: blog study, blogging, blogging thesis, blogosphere, blogs, communication, james torio, media, media landscape, research, thesis. Be the first one.

Wendy Seltzer alerts us to the Delaware Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Cahill v. Doe, a case that tested our rights to anonymity online, as well as the standard for judging defamation.
As it turns out, the court decided against the plaintiff, a city councilman, and protected the identity of “Proud Citizen,” who the councilman [...]

Posted October 12, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogosphere, blogs, cahill, cahill v. doe, chatroom, citizen journalism, city councilman, context, delaware, delaware supreme court, first amendment, free speech, freedom of speech, liability, media, media landscape, online forum, proud citizen, pseudonyms, real names, wendy seltzer. 3 Comments.

While I’m anxiously working to better fit libraries into the Google Economy, a few paragraphs of Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear, got me thinking about its role in politics.
Glassner was telling of how a 1996 article in USA Today quoted the National Assocation of Scholars saying that Georgetown University had dumbed down its curriculum [...]

Posted July 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: bloggers, blogosphere, conservative, culture of fear, falsehood, falsehoods, georgetown, georgetown university, google, google economy, libraries, nas, national association of scholars, politics, shakespeare, william shakespeare. 3 Comments.

David Rothman points to a Daily KOS story that points to a MyDD story titled “Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating.” What’s the point? Of the top 40 political blogs, more than half are ‘liberal,’ and more importantly, they support community involvement — including basic features like comments — that the conservative blogs shun.
of the five [...]

Posted June 16, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: aristocratic, blog, blogging, blogosphere, blogs, chris bowers, comment, comments, community, conservative, daily kos, dailykos, david rothman, debate, democrat, difference, differences, honest debate, liberal, mydd, politics, progressive, republican, snipers, stifle, story. 7 Comments.