If you’re a blogger, EFF: Fighting for Bloggers’ Rights website is for you.
EFF’s goal is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.
The Legal Guide for Bloggers is a collection of blogger-specific FAQs addressing everything from fair use to defamation law to workplace whistle-blowing.
Via Yuga and BloggerJobs
BlogMedia, Inc., a growing blog network based in Minneapolis, MN, is seeking bloggers for several of our current successful sites:
* Mobile Herald - Wireless & Cellular technology & gadgets
* Gadzooki - All sorts of technology, gadgets, PDAs, etc.
* TVbloggin’ - gossip about television and the movie world
* BSGblog - Everything Battlestar Galactica
* The Lost Weblog - Everything about “Lost”We’re looking for 7-10 solid posts per week on these sites.
Interested? Drop us a note at jobs [at] blogmedia [dot] biz with 2 sample posts for the site(s) you are interested in along with a little bit about yourself.
Connie Veneracion , the Sassy Lawyer posts about the First generation Filipino Kids at Global Voices.
Anyway, it’s the first time I’ve read about Global Voices and am quite impressed that it is “a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.”
How Global Voices Works:
A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Global Voices is your guide to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs.
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Got this news tidbit from Sassy Lawyer:
A blogger got plagiarized by an Associated Press reporter. When the blogger contacted the reporter and senior editor, both admitted to having had the article passed on to them. They said they didn’t need to credit the blogger because they viewed their source as a blog. What the heck?Just because it’s a blog? If traditional media is to be responsible, it should learn to credit all sources . Maybe they don’t know how to spell out hyperlinks but that’s impossible because these news agencies have websites.
The argument is astounding really if not entirely antithetical to journalistic standards. What the AP and others are saying essentially is that, while “your work” is good enough for us to steal, you are not credible enough to cite.
This is the blogger the blog entry that was plagiarized; and plagiarized AP article and author.
Myspace Mania indeed!
It is the largest online social networking portal on the web
It has 61 + million registered users with 21+ million unique visitors (media metrix)
It’s the second largest destination on the web, by page views
It splits 50.2% male, 49.8% female
They reach more men online than ESPN.com. They reach more females online than iVillage.
The primary age demo is 16-34
They have 1.4 million registered bands, 350,000 band blogs
The site attracts 220,000 new registrants daily
There are 50,000 groups including fashion, health, wellness & fitness, sports and recreation, music, film, TV, etc.
And last but not least it costs $35,000 to launch a profile for marketing purposes.
This was proven when I created FREE myspace layouts. After 2 days, hits to my main domain doubled. Can you just imagine getting a teeny weeny fraction of their visitors over to your site?
So nice! A digital scrapbook just for moi
From Ambot AH!. Rate your influence in the Blogosphere. Type in your url at Blog[!]Influence
BLOGGED got 34,620.8. Just so you can compare, Slashdot ’s blog influence is 3672259.2
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