Posts Tagged with ‘Kara-Swisher’

Have we finally reached the tipping point for actually stating that we have ethics and where we draw those lines?
It wasn't even a month ago when I mentioned that all bloggers may need a personal code of ethics as detailed as Kara Swisher's if we wanted to be taken seriously as journalists. There is often a fuzzy line, especially when you are writing in a world where blogs often co-sponsor parties with the companies they are supposed to be covering.
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Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by.
My personal blog is firmly in the first segment, but I'd probably put myself in the last category to an extent in my "work" writing. I started out as a journalism major, but couldn't [...]

It's Saturday night, and like any tech geek, I'm online, reading news and following the Twitter stream when I see a Tweet that CNET has bought Revision3. Now, this rumor was first floated back in December 2007 when CNET added Revision3 content, and has popped up since then occasionally in blogs.
The source, however, was Robert Scoble, so Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree with the news that Revision3 was bought for $57 million. Tweets from early this morning (1 [...]

I didn't want to rehash SXSW. But after reading both Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington's take on it, I find myself in strange company, because I agree with both of them, and this apparently puts me in the minority.
Two years ago, I would have sold my soul to attend SXSW. The past two years, it's seemed less and less about tech and more and more about a four-day-long party with the “cool” kids. Is it making up for time spent [...]