Blogs & Blogging

Blogging, or weblogging, where people post content they generate online, is becoming big business. More than 120 000 new blogs are created each day, according to blog search engine Technorati. There are about 70m blogs worldwide, Technorati estimates, though only a fraction are updated regularly. Most blogs have only a handful of readers. But some, such as Daily Kos and Instapundit, both US...

GamePolitics.com is reporting that U.S. District Judge Paul Huck has dismissed anti-video game crusader Jack Thompson's lawsuit against Gawker Media, the publisher of game blog Kotaku. Thompson had claimed that Kotaku and Gawker Media had failed to honor his requests to remove "threatening" comments from several of their blog posts that were critical of his eagerness to blame video games for the...

MPA member blogs now stand at 400. Not to be outdone, 75 percent of the nation’s largest newspapers currently blog on business related topics. The Magazine Publishers of America has released an online listing of the approximately 400 blogs established by its publishing members. Although there are 32 publishers—among them Fortune, Forbes, Scientific American, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about a statement by the deputy minister of energy, water and communications, Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor, on 4 April that, in order to prevent the spread of “negative or malicious content,” bloggers will soon have to register with the government. While claiming they do not intend to censor bloggers, they have warned that bloggers are not above the law...

One of the unique qualities of Internet discourse is its freewheeling, no-holds-barred nature, where passionate arguments are often accompanied by some choice expletives and a virtual finger in the eye. But what happens when the talk turns ugly, racist and violent? In recent weeks, some of those who post comments on the conservative blog Little Green Footballs have said they wished that Khalid...

Mumbai, Feb 25: In perhaps the first-of-its-kind, a journalist has sued popular internet search engine "Google" for hosting three blogs, which carry content allegedly defaming him, in the Bombay High Court. Gurbir Singh, a journalist, has filed the case against Google over three blogs: mediamamu.Blogspot.Com, mediamalice.Blogspot.Com and indianmediareview.Blogspot.Com. Creators of these blogs and...

BOSTON - The latest bomb scare to upset a major US city wasn't the handiwork of the Al Qaeda terror network. This time, it was the Cartoon Network. It all began Wednesday morning when a transit worker spotted a wired device on a girder underneath Interstate 93. After police found similar devices across the city, they shut down key roads and subway stations and called in federal officials with...

A Malaysian blogger, sued for alleged defamation by a pro-government newspaper, said Thursday the popularity of his online journal has turned it into a watchdog of the local media and its conduct. The libel suit by the New Straits Times newspaper against Ahirudin Attan has stirred a storm of protests by commentators who have said the action is a blow to free speech and an attempt to intimidate...

The San Antonio Express-News has a bowling blog. The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington, has a fly-fishing blog. A pet blog is popular at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Several newspapers have launched parenting blogs. The Fourth Estate has fallen fast and furiously in love with blogs, from news-driven ones about professional sports teams, real estate, crime, Hurricane Katrina, immigration and...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the size, scope and influence of weblogs continue to proliferate, business managers are faced with an increasingly important question: how to make your voice heard above the crowd? According to a research project conducted by Pew, there will be 34 million weblogs -- or blogs, as they known for short -- by the end of 2005. These blogs range from the completely ignorable...