WashPost Creates Supreme Court Blog
The Washington Post has started a blog dedicated to the campaign to confirm Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.
Scoble: I was over at Alex Barnett’s blog this morning and saw he linked to a survey that said that 87% of influencers use RSS. This is PRECISELY why I’ve been telling everyone to get RSS feeds and why they should be full text. If no one else in society uses them, this is enough…
BL Ochman reports: MoveOn.org, which was seeking 500,000 signatures on a petition against proposed Congress’ cancellation of funding to NPR and PBS, has now reached almost a million signatures.
A new news aggregator is launching Inform.com, and it does so with a wet kiss from the New York Times’ Bob Tedeschi today. It has a pretty slick layout, though as others have pointed out, it doesn’t appear to add that much to the current marketplace. It’s basically just like Google News only with a…
The Hartford Courant takes a look at the current difficulties facing newspapers — and how they are addressing the problem both on and off-line. These are tough times for the printed word. As newspapers grapple with their collective identity crisis, they’re also navigating some stark industry conditions – what some news veterans call the worst…
I originally posted this on TechJots, but I imagine readers here may be interested as well: I always knew I liked Shel Israel. Now I know why: he’s a Red Sox fan! Seriously, though, he’s going to be part of a blogger dinner in Boston on July 12 at 7 pm at Fire and Ice…
PaidContent reports that news parody site The Onion has dropped its premium pay service.