The News Review:
- Notice Those Ads on Blogs? Regulators Do Too
- Blogs grow up in Madagascar crisis
- Patterson blogs in support of health care protesters
Notice Those Ads on Blogs? Regulators Do Too
New York Times
Two of the National Advertising Review Council’s investigative units plan to announce Tuesday their first decisions involving blogs. Their recommendations call for clear disclosure when a company is sponsoring a site or paying for product reviews. That’s nothing shocking but it’s part of a sharper focus on the relationships between bloggers and advertisers. Attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission which is about to expand its endorsement guidelines to include blogs are investigating the area along with the self-regulatory groups. “It’s something everyone in the consumer protection area is newly focused on” said C.
Blogs grow up in Madagascar crisis
BBC News
The overtly political nature of the response to the deal in cyberspace is indicative of how far Madagascar’s bloggers have developed. In a blog called "reflections on Malagasy political life" an entry concludes: "A bad agreement is better than civil war. " Another blogger known as Tgoose muses: "In the next 15 months Madagascar is going to have one hell of an election. Can you imagine if you had to choose between Ravalomanana [former President Didier] Ratsiraka or Rajoelina? That would be insane. " Andry one of the legion of Madagascar’s political bloggers says the political crisis has transformed the way many people use the web. "The internet can be a real platform for serious debate" he says.
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Patterson blogs in support of health care protesters
Detroit Free Press
Blogging for the DBusiness Magazine a Detroit-based business journal Patterson said the protesters are perfectly justified to disrupt anything they want. ‘They sense a virtual destruction of a way of life their parents fought and died for’ he said.