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Blogs / RSS

• Papers
  • Bloggers and Journalists , Online Newshour (February 14, 2005) (video) (discussing how bloggers force the resignation of Dan Rather over his coverage of President Bushes National Guard Service, the Resignation of the first White House blogger Jeff Gannon for using a fake name and asking the President a softball question, and, in extended discussion, the resignation of CNN Executive Eason Jordan for comments at the World Economic Conference at Davos).
  • The Economic Impact of Blogging , Todd And = Marketing + Media (Nov. 26, 2006)
• News
  • Blogs Provide Storm Evacuees With Neighborhood-Specific News, Wash Post 9/7/2005
  • Online News Consumers Become Own Editors (AP), AP 7/26/2005
  • In video blogging, mundane is in, IHT 7/26/2005
  • One blog created 'every second', BBC 8/2/2005
  • RSS Enables Google News Junkies, Internet news 8/9/2005
  • Blog Readers Spend More Time and Money Online, Clickz 8/12/2005
  • Feeding on RSS, emarketer 8/12/2005
  • Survey: The Blogs Are Growing! The Blogs Are Growing!, Information Week 8/16/2005
  • One In Five Internet Users Visit Blogs Regularly, Internet Week 8/16/2005
  • IETF Signs Off on Atom, eweek 8/19/2005
  • RSS To Carry Spyware Before Year's Out, InternetWeek 6/14/2005
  • RSS tool sends out alerts for TV, radio, CNET 7/19/2005
  • White House admits first blogger to briefing, USA Today 3/9/2005
  • Tackling the RSS Bandwidth Bugbear, InternetNews 9/30/2004
  • RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy, wired 11/16/2004
  • RSS Feeds Hunger for More Ads, Wired 10/15/2004
  • RSS Comes with Bandwidth Price Tag, eweek 9/21/200

Bloggers treated as Press

• FOIA
  • Center for Public Integrity v US Dept of Health and Human Services , Civil Action No. 06-1818, Slip at 8 (JDB) (DCDC August 3, 2007) (CPI found to be a "representative of news media" for purposes of FOIA where information sought from HHS would be published in an online newsletter).
• Federal Campaign Law FEC
  • Final Rules and Explanation and Justification for the Internet Communications Rulemaking , FEC Fed Reg Notice (Mar. 24, 2006) ("media exception" applies the same online as offline, and specifically, applies to bloggers the same as anyone else, citing cases of blogs that were found to fall under "media exception").
• Press Passes / Credentials
  • Bloggers Score Press Passes for Fashion Week , BizReport (Sept. 13, 2006)
  • White House Approves Pass for Bloggers , NYTimes (March 7, 2005)
  • Parties to Allow Bloggers to Cover Conventions for First Time , Washington Post (July 6 th , 2004)
• News
  • Bloggers should be allowed to join the journalist party, CNET 10/23/2007
  • Non-'casual' bloggers win legal shield in House, CNET 10/18/2007

Podcasts

• Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, " Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership ," July 30, 2006 (" among those with an iPod or other portable music player, 8% say they listen to news podcasts, including 5% who do so at least a few times a week. ")
• A must read: The Podcasting Legal Guide, Internet Cases 4/28/2006
• FeedBurner: Podcasts Outnumber Radio Stations, eweek 4/18/2006
• Podcasts Calling, BWO 4/12/2006
• Podcasting Roils NPR Fund Raising, Wired 4/5/2006
• Podcasters prepare to launch video era, MSNBC 10/14/2005
• Yahoo is betting podcasts will sizzle, Silicon 10/11/2005
• U.S. State Dept., NYPD Board Podcasting Bandwagon, InternetWeek 9/19/2005
• Apple podcasting goes mainstream, IHT 7/29/2005
• Storm clouds gather over podcasting, PK 8/9/2005
• Podcast Sent From Outer Space, Information Week 8/16/2005
• Apple podcasting goes mainstream, IHT 8/2/2005

Blogs

• Statistics
• Blogs recognised 'freedom awards', BBC 6/15/2005
• EFF Releases Legal Guide for Bloggers, EFF 6/14/2005
• Microsoft Censors Blogs At Its New Chinese Portal, Information Week 6/14/2005