The News Review:
- Live-Blogging bama’s Health Care Town Hall in Raleigh NC
- New Survey Reveals Insights on Responsible Blogging and Sponsored …
- Noises off: Fighting talk on the theatre blogs
- China’s Anti-Blogging Strategy: Tell the Truth and Fast
- LP Blog Takes Swipe at ‘Birther Fringe’
- hio State Season Preview: BlockNation Blog Entry No. 1 for …
- Micro-Blogs Taking ff
Live-Blogging bama’s Health Care Town Hall in Raleigh NC
Wall Street Journal Blogs
Ghanbari)Sara Coleman owner of Cupcake Shoppe Bakery says she can’t afford to provide insurance to her 10 employees and that has made it harder to hold on to them. She also says that this is stopping her from opening more bakeries. With the health care debate shifting its focus to Americans who do have coverageWashington Wire will be live-blogging the event which is likely to include discussions of out-of-pocket expenses dropped coverage and discrimination. The live blog will begin shortly.
Related from Mommie-care: Health care reform pitch gets personal
New Survey Reveals Insights on Responsible Blogging and Sponsored …
Business Wire (press release)
At the conference The Responsibility Project brought to life an open forum for bloggers and other attendees to share their opinions and advice on responsible blogging by either filling out a survey or participating in an on-camera interview. Participants were asked questions on a range of responsible blogging topics including sponsored blog posts the proposed FTC revisions and what’s considered appropriate content to include on a blog. HIGHLIGHTED RESULTS:1 98 percent of surveyed bloggers believe it is acceptable to receive a free product A majority of bloggers mentioned transparency disclosure and honesty as key caveats to receiving free product and writing sponsored posts 84 percent said honesty is a key trait of a responsible blogger followed by transparency (66 percent) and reliable sources (56 percent) ABUT PRPSED FTC GUIDELINES: The FTC has taken a recent interest in bloggers who receive product and sponsorships from companies in exchange for positive reviews. The FTC’s proposed revisions for social media which could require all online media to comply with certain disclosure rules are part of the larger “Guide Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. ” A vote on the guidelines by the Commission could come as early as this fall. ABUT THE RESPNSIBILITY PRJECT: The Responsibility Project created by Liberty Mutual uses entertainment content to create a forum for people to discuss personal acts of responsibility.
Noises off: Fighting talk on the theatre blogs
guardian.co.uk
Not just self-promotion obscure manifestos and production diaries. And here’s hoping for a new breed of long-form critics worth reading. “Now if there is one thing that theatre bloggers like to talk about more than theatre it is theatre blogging itself. And so Cote’s post has caused quite a stir. It seems that a lot of people agree with him about the state of the blogs of late.
China’s Anti-Blogging Strategy: Tell the Truth and Fast
New America Media
Meanwhile Chinese bloggers acted faster than the government’s media controllers and one detailed eye-witness account ended up on overseas Chinese Web sites and was circulated around the world. It could no longer be deleted. (An English translation of this account can be found on the Hong Kong-based ESWN one of the most popular China blogs. ) So far no Western media outlet has cited this far more informative account whose content seems to be verified by various sources including the government’s own belated reporting. China’s media waited until July 27 to react. Curiously this time English reporting led the way. The first article this reporter found was published on China Daily’s English Web site titled “Manager Killed in Plant Riot.
LP Blog Takes Swipe at ‘Birther Fringe’
Independent Political Report
A selection:Libertarians understand that the entire issue does not even matter in a larger sense. …Socialized healthcare is on the horizon. The DHS NSA TSA police state is expanding the Drug War is still being pursued by an arrogant ignorant government and bama is expanding the war in Afghanistan! Frankly we have got bigger problems to pursue than blogging endlessly about where the President was born. Being President these days is the power to ignore the Constitution. People who claim to care about the rule of law should be focusing on more important issues and join the Libertarian Party in fighting expanding government. The entire piece can be found at.
hio State Season Preview: BlockNation Blog Entry No. 1 for …
Bleacher Report
com | Bleacher Report. This is my first article for them and it can be found on the SU blog by clicking here.
Micro-Blogs Taking ff
Korea Times
com) has South Korean companies rushing to create similar services as they leap onto the micro-blogging bandwagon. Twitter and other micro-blogging services allow Internet users to broadcast their real-time status on computers and portable devices. Although the expensive and closed nature of mobile Internet services provided by local mobile-phone carriers are preventing Twitter and other micro-blogging services to be used extensively on handsets it seems that “broadcast texting” is taking off anyway. Nearly 600000 Internet users visited a Twitter account in June according to Rankey (www. com) an Internet market research company and NHN the operator of Naver (www.