Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur is a blistering tirade against “Web 2.0,” blogs, YouTube, citizen journalists, and the like. Keen champions professional journalists as bastions of truth; however, in an off-handed comment, Keen admitted that his own book wasn’t fact-checked. Accordingly, the book fails to fulfill its own calls for accuracy and objectivity. […]
Michael Eisner criticizes Arianna Huffington at media conference
<p>August 13, 2007 (GROUNDREPORT) Aspen, Colorado — Michael Eisner criticized Arianna Huffington today during a media conference in Aspen, denouncing the <a href="http://huffingtonpost.com"><em>Huffington Post</em></a>’s lack of payment for contributing bloggers. Eisner, a former head of ABC, Paramount and Disney, said that failing to pay contributors forced them to work "on the assembly line" to pay […]
Why Facebook is Growing Faster Than Other Social Networks
So much has been written about Facebook over the past several months that it is almost easy to forget that there are other social networking properties available to the internet community. The meteoric growth that Facebook has been enjoying has made headlines in traditional media and across the blogosphere – and this kind of attention […]
Blogging Secret is Sponsoring a Reviews Contest
Being connected to the world wide web is making it easy to meet people of many different countries speaking different languages. One of these blogs I enjoy visiting is Blogging Secret published by Louiss Lim. Besides his advice on how to make easy money online he shares many great tips about the Google Blogger templates […]
A blogger is running from Imola to Venice for a bet
An evening with your friends drinking a famous beer can bring about a bet to win. Some evenings before May 21st, a 25 y.o. guy from Rome, Gianluca, was sure the upcoming Heineken Jammin’ Festival will take place in Imola as every past years, but his friends strongly disagreed and rather confirmed Venice from June […]
Daylife is Epic: An Interview with Jeff Jarvis
The launch of news site Daylife almost two weeks ago was met by a flurry of feedback from thoughtful types across the web. So what happened? Bloggers alternately fawned over Daylife’s “engagingly pretty” interface and decried its lack of interactivity. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, a Daylife investor, was disappointed at the absence of commenting and RSS […]