Tag Archives: blogging

Book Review : Blogging Heroes

Chris Castiglione | 15 September 2008, 12:02 am | tags: ,

Blogging Heroes is Michael Bank’s compilation of biographies and interviews with 30 of “The World’s Top Bloggers”. Included in the list are bloggers from such well known sites such as BoingBoing, Engadget, Ars Techinca and PostSecret. While not all the bloggers covered are quite as famous as those I’ve just cited, more than half have been ranked in the top 100 blogs (according to technorati.com).

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Roman Tol | 13 May 2008, 2:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Written for the Institute of Network Cultures
Crossposted at Institute of Network Cultures Weblog

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On April 17th and 18th 2008 the department of Politics and International Relations at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) organized Politics: Web 2.0: an international conference. The conference was large and diverse, with six distinguished keynotes,…

Rethinking the Blog as Database: My First Post on the Blog Herald

Anne Helmond | 16 October 2007, 3:50 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

I am proud to announce that I have joined the Blog Herald. The Blog Herald has been blogging about the blogosphere since 2003 and has since become an established source in the blogosphere. I have been reading the Blog Herald for a while now and was absolutely thrilled when they asked me to write for them. I…

Collaboration under censorship

Maarten van Sprang | 15 October 2007, 5:37 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

In response the problematic situation in Myanmar, social activists, students and Buddhist monks gathered to stand up against the totalitarian regime of the Burmese government. Blogging is the only way to get censorship free news and forms the heart of Burmese democracy. This article show how collaborations between bloggers, both local and international, can create a worldwide movement against the totalitarian regime.