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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 26/10/2009
Kai Diekmann, the head of Bild, the gigantic German newspaper, is a journalistic celebrity of a sort we don’t have here: utterly charming, lustily egotistical, brashly opinionated, infuriating to those he infuriates (a friend of mine calls him Germany’s Roger Ailes), beloved to his fans, ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 05/10/2009
The Federal Trade Commission just released rules to regulate product endorsements not just in advertisements but also on blogs. (PDF here; the regs don’t start until page 55.)It is a monument to unintended consequence, hidden dangers, and dangerous assumptions. Mind you, I hate one of its appa ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 21/04/2009
Mark Penn writes in the Wall Street Journal that there are now more paid bloggers than CEOs.Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers, firefighters or even bartenders.Paid bloggers fit just about every definition ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 18/11/2008
It’s barely worth dignifying with a link but Howard Witt writes a letter to Romenesko wondering whether, Mark Cuban has been brought up on insider-trading charges, his Sharesleuth.com would cover the news. Witt uses this as an opportunity to dismiss any value from all bloggers: “I’ ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 14/06/2008
I propose to the Associated Press that it immediately begin linking to all its sources for stories, especially to members’ original journalism because:* This will support journalism at its source. As I’ve written here, it is vital that we link to original journalism so it can receive tra ...
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