The CAJ held its annual awards banquet last night and published a list of the winners.   more »

A decent size group for this panel discussion on blogging. Emira starts with a definition of Web logs: Emira's been blogging for years but says "When I went to describe it I found myself totally stumped." First it was "essentially snippets of people's thoughts" is a good starting point. Now ...   more »

Kirk Lapointe, ex-Southam, ex-CP, ex-National Post, ex-CTV, ex-Hamilton Spectator, and currently Managing Editor at the Vancouver Sun, (and my old boss at several of those spots) is speaking at a breakfast sponsored by Canada Newswire. Some journalists are here but this ...   more »

Jeff Jarvis is president and creative director of Advance.net, which oversees the Internet operations for Advance Publications, including CondéNet and Advance Internet. He is a former television critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor of the New York Daily News and columnist with the San ...   more »

Blogs are Web documents. And that means you likely already have all the software you need to read blogs because they can be read by any Web browser on any platform. If you need a Web browser, here are the links:    more »

Some articles about blogging and journalism:

Citizen Reporters Make the News (Wired News Online, MAY 17, 2003)
In the West, people with a journalistic bent turn to weblogs to exercise the urge to publish news or comment on events of the day.
But in South Korea, the publishing ...   more »

No one really knows and you will find a plenty of arguments. However, I will aver that a blog, for our discussion anyhow, must have the following:

• A diary-like organization. That is, entries or content are organized chronologically.
• Ability to include comments from readers, generally without the intervention of the

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Journalists will find that blogs are excellent feedback tools for their own work and for the work of other journalists who write about the same things you do. Example: How blogs can circumvent Big Media  Backstory: The French daily Libération publishes a story about The Pixies getting back together ...   more »

Workshop Mission: BLOGGING 101- They've played key roles in the combative U.S. presidential campaign. Academics say they'll revolutionize mainstream journalism. But what do blogs have to do with the daily lives of journalists in Canada? What do journalists need to know about this new source of views and information?  ...   more »

Here's a list:

• Me. David Akin
  
• A list of mostly American journalists and American organizations with a blog. Some links here are dead or outdated.
  
• The Campaign Desk: Critique and analysis of the 2004 Presidential Campaign by the Columbia Journalism Review
  
• Dan Gillmor: Technology columnist for the San Jose ...   more »