I have known for some time that weblogs were powerful, and today there’s proof — weblogs can change the law. Howard Bashman, author and host of How Appealing, noted an error in a Fifth Circuit opinion. The author of the opinion, Justice Jerry Smith, also happens to be a reader of the weblog;
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Update on backlinking
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Web and Online Culture
Here’s the full text of the document on backlinking I mentioned below.
Study on web credibility released
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Consumer Web Watch has released the results of a study it commissioned on How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web. Not surprisingly, the report shows that while many Internet users know what to look for in determining whether a website is credible, few actually take the trouble to do so. It’s a…
Travel Agents? What are those?
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The New York Times reports that travel-related purchasing on the Internet is the Number 1 activity among Internet users.
The trials of simply answering questions
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A freelance librarian writes of her experiences answering questions as a Google Researcher. I used to answer questions for the site AskMe.com, and I concur; it’s amazing how mad people get when they don’t understand why they can’t get the answer they want. Of course, I wasn’t getting paid for my efforts.
Reporters and weblogs
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Increasingly, news reporters are turning to weblogs to further discuss their take on news, politics, and other current events. Three of the best news weblogs are ABC’s The Note, OpinionJournal (Wall Street Journal), and Eric Alterman at MSNBC. But if you were a newspaper hoping to make money from your reporters, wouldn’t you be…
Our online selves
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Posted in Web and Online Culture
Wendy Leibowitz reports on how easily we give others the right to invade our privacy, merely by surfing the Internet.
It was CNN, I swear…
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A new survey indicates that while employees acknowledge spending one day each week surfing the Internet at work, they are really surfing news and shopping sites.
Surfing anonymously at work?
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Posted in Privacy, Web and Online Culture
Have any of you ever used Anonymizer? It allows you to surf many sites on the Internet anonymously — for a fee, you can download a program that makes all of your Internet activity completely anonymous. The newest version of Private Surfing claims that you can “surf at work without being monitored.” But don’t…
Which way is left?
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Wired Magazine reports today on something that’s always bugged me: how MapQuest frequently provides the wrong directions. Has anyone else ever had this problem?