The News Review:
- For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts
- Blogging Animal Crossing
- Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?
For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts
New York Times, United States
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site,. com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program. Anil Dash, a former blogger and current vice president at Six Apart, announced the program Nov. 14, shortly after the company made its own staff cuts.
Blogging Animal Crossing
Wired News
Perfecting her Happy Room Academy score, completing the Museum collections and acquiring every collectible the game had to offer – fruit, furniture, fish, bugs, butterflies and outfits. And now – with the release of Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Wii – she’s at it again. But ingeniously, this time she is writing an.
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Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?
Seattle Post Intelligencer
– Blogger beware? State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances. In a collision of 21st century media and 1970s political reforms, the inquiry hints at a showdown over press freedoms for bloggers, whose self-published journals can shift between news reporting, opinion writing, political organizing and campaign fundraising. State officials are downplaying any possible media rights conflict, pointing out that regulators have already exempted journalistic blogging from previous guidelines for online campaign activity. But the blogosphere is taking the notion seriously. One prominent liberal blogger in Seattle is already issuing a dare – if the government wants David Goldstein to file papers as a lobbyist, it will have to take him to court. Goldstein, publisher of the widely read horsesass. org, wants to know how his political crusades could be subject to financial disclosures while newspaper writers, radio hosts and others in traditional media get a pass.