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Oregon Court Rules Blogging Isn’t Journalism
Finally, all of my fears about the legitimacy of my chosen career have paid off with the news that a federal judge in Portland, Oregon–the very city in which I live!–has ruled that blogging does not, in fact, equal journalism, …
AOL and The Huffington Post’s New Unpaid Blogging Army? Underage Kids
When is child labor not child labor? The answer, according to AOL-owned blog The Huffington Post, may be “When teenagers are producing content for the Internet for free.”
HuffPost has been criticized in the past for exploiting writers by not paying them for their work, but any debate over whether or not such treatment is fair is about …
WordPress for iPhone and iPad Gets a Big Update; Basics Still Missing
This post originally appeared on Technologizer.
In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones approach was simply inadequate. The app was also pretty buggy.
WordPress …
Outage Silences Blogger Blogs
Bloggers at Google-owned blogger.com were locked out of their blogs for a number of hours overnight, apparently after a behind-the-scenes update that went awry.
Users were warned on Monday that there would be an hour-long outage on Wednesday, for maintenance. But according to Netcraft, the site went down on Thursday and has largely
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AOL, Huff Post Sued For $105 Million By Ex-Blogger
Be careful who you fire as you’re handing over your company, they just might sue you for $105 million. In fact that’s just what former Huffington Post blogger Jonathan Tasini’s asking from AOL and HuffPost in a lawsuit with possible class-action status, claiming he and other bloggers weren’t paid for their work.
Those other …
Blogger Regains Its Cool
Remember Blogger? Of course you do. But do you still use it, or did you start using WordPress or Tumblr years ago?
Blogger is one of the oldest names on the blogging block, but hasn’t had a lot of love from its owners for a long time. Aside from a gorgeous and easy-to-use template design tool launched last year, its user interface
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Rocket Boosters for Bloggers: WordPress Launches ‘Jetpack’
New from the people at WordPress is Jetpack, a helpful add-on for those who manage their own personal copies of the popular blogging software.
WordPress is by far the best-known and most-used blog tool around these days, and it comes in two delicious flavors: WordPress.com is a fully hosted service, operated and maintained by the …
Should Media Outlets Edit Their Unpaid Bloggers?
A recent blog post by the Lorain, Ohio Morning Journal’s editor Tom Skotch, in which he appealed to local writers to contribute to the newspaper’s blog for free, has brought up the controversial debate of “hiring” citizen journalists. While many comments from professionals claimed it devalued the work of journalists when a publication …
App of the Week: WordPress for Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 owners who run WordPress blogs now have an official app for their phones. The free WordPress for Windows Phone 7 works with both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org accounts, providing quick access to posts, comments and stats.
Post creation provides basic features such as rich text formatting, media uploads, …