Cheers for Sen. Dodd standing up manfully to Bill O’Reilly (= they yelled at each other), but he missed the point about O’Reilly’s complaint that DailyKos.com is full of hate. (Video) Dodd kept saying that O’Reilly was picking a few odious posts from over 500,000 visitors. It would have been more effective and more accurate to explain that DailyKos is a site where anyone can have a blog and say what they want. That the site is not centrally controlled is something that O’Reilly with his Big Media (and Big Bully) mindset seems to have trouble grasping. Dodd missed a chance to educate Poppa Bear.

Micah is live-blogging the YearlyKos over at the always-excellent TechPresident. [Tags: kos dailykos yearlykos chris_dodd bill_oreilly politics blogging]

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From The Online Photographer blog:

Eastman Kodak Company has two blogs: A Thousand Words is written “by, and about, everyday employees who share a passion for photographic storytelling,” in the words of Kodak’s David Kassnoff. Its companion blog, A Thousand Nerds, “shares insights into the technical aspects of making photography an enjoyable experience.”

I don’t know these blogs, but I sure like their names. And their stated approach. [Tags: blogs kodak ]

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Ethanz, who is in the pantheon of live bloggers, has a detailed post explaining how he does it. I think he intends to pass along the tips and tricks that will encourage others to live-blog, but it actually seems so daunting that it may have the opposite effect. And among the tools in the live bloggers kit bag that Ethan does not mention are: his rare combination of analytic and sympathetic skills, his breadth of knowledge, his awesome writing skill, and his patience.

I like live-blogging. (I do it far worse than Ethan does; you’re always better off reading Ethan’s posts than mine.) But I find it very tiring. I fairly predictably poop out after lunch.

Ethan also writes a beautiful appreciation of our friend Henok Mehari, who has just finished up his internship at the Berkman Center. All I can add to what Ethan has said is: Amen. Henok’s story is amazing, and, most hopeful of all is that he is only really at the beginning of it. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman henok_mehari berkman liveblogging blogging]

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Scott Kirsner has started a new blog, Inovation Economy, as the companion to his new Sunday column in the Boston Globe. I’ve always liked the way Scott intersects business and tech… (Scott has a useful disclosure statement.) [Tags: scott_kirsner business vc boston_globe]

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Bill Griffith’s automotive column in the Boston Globe today has a nice quote from Saab USA’s new general manager:

“A blogger, I think he was from Tasmania, immediately made a post on behalf of Saab owners,” Shannon said. “The gist was, ‘You’re working for us now, and you better take care of our baby.’ “

Evidence? Nah. An anecdote that expresses a whole bunch of themes? Yup.

[Tags: marketing cluetrain saab]

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The Data Mining blog maps the blogosphere into some very pretty shapes… (Thanks, Betsy, for the link.) [Tags: blogosphere maps everything_is_miscellaneous ]

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EOM.

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Our new local paper, BostonNow, is taking blogs very seriously. See this post for the explanation. The paper is also tagalicious and comment-wild. Could be the start of something good for the city… [Tags: bostonnow media citizen_journalism blogs everything_is_miscellaneous hyperlocal ]

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The Boston Globe has a good article by Marcella Bombardieri about colleges using students to blog to give prospective students a sense of what life is like there. About 25% of colleges do this. Some pay, some don’t. Some see the blogs before they’re posted, some don’t. All say they have a high tolerance for negative or embarrassing posts.

Wouldn’t a prospective student do better to find students who are just blogging, rather than ones who are sponsored by the school admissions department? On the other hand, have you tried to find, say, MIT blogs at Technorati? Let me give you a hint: The “related tags” listed for “mit” are “technology, und, der, zu, den, das, von, ein and auch.” Who tags anything “zu” or “von,” the equivalent of tagging an English-language post as “to” or “of.”

(Disclosure: I’m on Technorati’s board of advisors.) [Tags: college conversational_marketing marketing cluetrain blogs everything_is_miscellaneous]

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The French have developed a “code of conduct” for bloggers—a project begun in Feb. 2006 but with longer roots—that has been adopted by 200 blogs and two major political parties. It mixes netiquette (don’t use all caps), best practices (“When replying to a comment, it can be useful to quote from the original text in order to be understood”) and ethical rules (“Comments of a racist, anti-Semitic, pornographic, revisionist or sexist nature will not be accepted…”).

From my point of view, it is one possible set of guidelines. We should have lots and lots of them so that — when appropriate — bloggers can make explicit the norms already implicit on their sites.

This evening at 9pm in France, there’s going to be a Second Life discussion about the code with the person responsible for the Net campaign of Ségolène Royal. Details here. (I’ll be on a plane, so I’ll have to miss it, which is just as well given my ludicrously bad French.)

(I blogged about blogging codes here and about my own guidelines in the comments to this post.)

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