Four More Years!
Today is LP’s fourth birthday! So if you’re feeling in a nostalgic mood, or if you weren’t around way back when, you can check out the first two posts or have a look at a snapshot of where we were [...]
Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt vs. Crikey: Upscaling the blog wars or big yawn?
Skepticlawyer reports on the incorporation of various interlinked Blair/Bolt watch blogs into Crikey’s blog network [Crikey story here]. Tim Blair seems to have taken the bait Pure Poison laid for him. Skepticlawyer comments: One entirely legitimate attack that the MSM [...]
Bloggers journos derivative
In comments on the post here at LP about John Quiggin’s piece on the “picking up the phone” distinction some have made between journos and bloggers, Jack Strocchi asked: When have news journos derived their copy off bloggers? Some people [...]
Wilson/Windschuttle Quadrant hoax: the links continue!
I feel like I’m flogging a dead horse here a little, but there are still some interesting posts being written on some of the issues arising out of Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Quadrant [see past LP posts here]. Most of [...]
The media and the motivation to blog
At Ambit Gambit, Graham Young riffs off a comment made by Jay Rosen on Twitter: You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is “safety first” reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens.” [...]
More developments in online independent media
Last week, I noted the sad end of the Road to Surfdom and mused about the future of independent online media. While some things come to an end, other things begin, and I thought it would be a useful postscript [...]
All good things… (NZ election)
All good things eventually come to an end. And so has the fifth Labour government. They made a good run of it, but as a third term government hoping for a fourth, the odds were always against them. In the [...]
End of the Road for Surfdom; and the future of independent online media
It’s sad to read that Tim Dunlop is closing down The Road to Surfdom, one of the original Australian political blogs, and one that’s been a great contributor to commentary and discussion over a sustained period of time. It’s not [...]
US election: Yes we can!
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3004965364_03e56ac41f.jpg" Image of spontaneous street celebrations in Harlem courtesy of matt semel at flickr – reproduced under a Creative Commons licence. No doubt one of the big stories about the US election will be the influence of the blogosphere [...]
Which way will the Maori Party jump? (NZ election)
The polls have begun to tighten in the NZ election, with several showing the National Party’s expected majority evaporating under the pressure of the campaign and the international financial meltdown. Meanwhile, the parties are also deciding their coalition preferences. The [...]
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